More Crime in Sugar Land

Man, what is it about that place--people can't stop doing crimes! Chron crime-beat reporter Dale Lezon has the scoop.

A Sugar Land woman is accused of bilking millions of dollars from the chemical company where she previously worked to buy a luxury home and bankroll trips to Las Vegas, according to federal authorities.

Diana Simon, 49, pleaded not guilty today to one wire fraud, which, authorities say, arose in her alleged scheme to steal more than $3.6 million for Kaneka Texas, a subsidiary of a Japanese chemicals firm with U.S. headquarters in Pasadena. (Dale Lezon, The Houston Chronicle, September 2, 2009)

I'll say one thing for Sugar Land criminals--when they steal, they steal big.

Sugar Land--Hotbed of Criminality!

These people are all class.

A brother and sister from Sugar Land have been accused of bilking Medicaid for more than $1 million with a scheme involving bogus claims for adult diapers.

A federal grand jury indicted Benjamin and Rose Essien on charges of conspiracy, eight counts of health care fraud and two counts aggravated identity theft for fraudulently filing claims, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the state Attorney General’s Office.

The indictment alleges that between April 2004 and August 2006, the Essiens, who owned and operated Logic World Medical, a medical equipment company in Houston, regularly billed Medicaid for adult diapers and other urinary incontinence supplies but either did not deliver them to Medicaid beneficiaries, delivered fewer diapers than were requested in claims, or provided supplies when they were not requested and physicians had not prescribed them.

The supplies included adult diapers, underpads, wipes and pull-up briefs.

These creeps committed a crime against the government (and specifically, anyone who pays a tax for Medicaid, which includes every worker in this country), but also against poor old people with incontinence. Slime.

(Hat-tip to the Houston Chronicle.)