Tumanyan, who was in the United States on an expired Visa from Armenia and who resided in Los Angeles until the time of his arrest in this case, previously pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy charge. According to the evidence presented at the guilty plea and sentencing hearings:
Brunswick Medical Supply was a fraudulent medical equipment provider that was opened in Brunswick in 2007. Associates of Tumanyan fraudulently obtained a Medicare provider number for this phony businesses, stole the identities of hundreds of Medicare beneficiaries, stole the identities of dozens of doctors, and used this stolen information to submit millions of dollars in phony claims for health care services that were never provided. Medicare paid approximately $1.5 million for these fraudulent claims before Brunswick Medical Supply was shut down. Tumanyan then took numerous steps to launder the money stolen from Medicare. Tumanyan opened at least four sham businesses in Los Angeles; opened multiple bank accounts in the names of these businesses; and used these bank accounts to launder the proceeds of the fraud at Brunswick Medical Supply. The evidence also showed that Tumanyan helped launder hundreds of thousands of dollars of other money stolen through various schemes to defraud, such as identity theft, check kiting, and other health care fraud schemes.
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