A Bronx woman who committed one of the borough’s biggest ever case of benefits fraud got off with five years’ probation Tuesday after paying back a hefty chunk of cash, the New York Daily News reported yesterday.
Parvattie Raghunandan, a Guyanese immigrant who misrepresented her family’s income for a decade — netting thousands in fraudulent Medicaid payments — was handed the jail-free sentence in Bronx Supreme Court after paying back over US$85,000 and pleading guilty to grand larceny.
She had received well over US$50,000 in city Medicaid benefits between 2006 and 2013, court papers state,
