A Falmouth, Mass., man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder proceeds of a more than $6 million Medicare fraud scheme run through a New Hampshire medical supply company, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the Justice Department.
Leo Anzivino Jr., 35, agreed to serve as the straw owner of Rochester, N.H.-based Advanced Medical Supply Corp. while his co-conspirators were its true owners and managers. Advanced submitted more than $6 million in Medicare claims for knee braces, back braces and other durable medical equipment that beneficiaries didn’t need, supported by fake orders from physicians who never wrote them. Medicare paid more than $3 million, and some beneficiaries mailed the equipment back with notes calling it a scam.
Mr. Anzivino was listed as Advanced’s owner on its Medicare enrollment paperwork and falsely certified to a New Hampshire bank that he owned the company. When that bank questioned his attempts to move more than $1 million to companies affiliated with a co-conspirator, he opened an account at a different bank. After learning Medicare would revoke Advanced’s billing privileges, he wired nearly $1.5 million in three transactions over five weeks. The government seized about $353,768 from Advanced’s bank account in 2024.
Mr. Anzivino is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 21 and faces up to 10 years in prison.
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