Several people with ties to a Rockford home health care agency have been indicted in a national crackdown on opioids.
Zosima Victuelles, Mylene Masiclat, Maribel Cabrera, Yaseen Odeh and Mohammad Raza Khan work for Sure Care, a home health agency with offices in Rockford and Glendale Heights. They were charged in a 28-count indictment by the U.S. Attorney's Office with conspiracy to offer and pay, and to solicit and receive, kickbacks and bribes for the referral of Medicare beneficiaries.
The Rockford Register Star reports owners paid more than $435,000 in kickbacks to refer Medicare patients to Sure Care from 2010 to 2014. The indictment says members of the conspiracy attempted to conceal their kickbacks and bribes by directing employees to cash checks made out to the employees and give the money back to Victuelles, Masiclat or Cabrera who would then give the cash to Odeh and Khan.
Federal court arraignments have yet to be scheduled.