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The Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens will be accepting bids
for their Child Adult Food Care Program
Sealed bids will be received at the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens office at
110-04 Atlantic Ave, South Richmond Hill, NY 11419 July 24th to August 11th
2017 until 12pm for meal catering services at the Boys & Girls Club of Metro
Queens site. Qualified vendors must be able to deliver:
• Meals exclusively for children
• Meals must be made from scratch with meats, fruits and vegetables having
never been canned or frozen
• No processed or packaged foods on the menu
• Served family style
• Deliver 300 Suppers AND snacks daily
All work will be conducted in strict accordance with bid specifications.
Bids will be opened and read on August 11th at 2pm
108th Precinct
LIC, Maspeth, Sunnyside,
Woodside
LIC robber pedals
away on Citi Bike
A thief used a Citi Bike to ride past a
woman in Long Island City and snatch
her iPhone, police said.
On July 9, the suspect rode around
the vicinity of 48th Avenue and Fift h
Street at about 3:40 p.m. when he spotted
a 25-year-old woman on her iPhone.
Th e suspect took the phone from her and
fl ed on the bike in an unknown location,
according to police.
Th e suspect is described as a black
man who was last seen wearing a yellow
T-shirt and red socks.
Anyone with information in regards to
this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s
Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS
(8477) or for Spanish call 888-57-PISTA
(74782). Th e public can also submit their
tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers
website or by texting their tips to 274637
(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are
strictly confi dential.
115th Precinct
Corona, East Elmhurst, Jackson
Heights
Jackson Hts. sex off ender
harassed victim
A convicted sex off ender in Jackson
Heights who violated his parole by reaching
out to one of his victims will now be
heading behind bars.
Queens District Attorney Richard A.
Brown announced that Vernon Corbett,
42, has pleaded guilty to contempt of
court aft er he used social media to contact
the woman he admitted to raping when
she was just 15 years old back in 2012.
Corbett also pleaded guilty to attempted
possession of a sexual performance
of a child aft er law enforcement found
images on his cellphone containing children
being sexually abused. Additional
charges include second-degree criminal
contempt, violation of probation, and
fi rst-degree falsifying business records.
Th e charges each carry penalties of
between 1 to 3 years in prison, although
the sentences will run concurrently.
According to criminal charges, the
woman contacted both police and
Corbett’s probation offi cer aft er he sent
her a LinkedIn request, which violates
the order of protection she has, saying
Corbett must not contact her both in person
and online.
During their investigation, prosecutors
said, the probation offi cer discovered
Corbett had not listed his social media
and email accounts with the New York
Division of Criminal Justice Services,
which is required for all sex off enders
by law.
Investigators also discovered child pornography
on the defendant’s cellphone.
“In light of the recent ruling by the U.S.
Supreme Court that sex off enders cannot
be excluded from the internet or social
media,” said Brown, “it is imperative that
those of the registry abide by the rules of
the Division of Criminal Justice Services
and identify their email accounts, screen
names, and any other online identifi ers.”
Ozone Park, Elmhurst docs busted for
health care fraud
Th ree medical professionals with
ties to Queens have been arrested in a
nationwide health care fraud sting for
allegedly bilking Medicare and Medicaid
out of millions of dollars in fraudulent
claims, federal prosecutors announced
on Th ursday.
Ghanshyam Bhambhani, 52, a cardiologist
who operates an offi ce at 107-
06 Liberty Ave. in Ozone Park, allegedly
violated the Anti-Kickback Statute
by paying other physicians for patient
referrals. According to Acting U.S.
Attorney Bridget Rohde, other doctors
secretly recorded him discussing payments
for patient referrals.
An investigation found that
Bhambhani, and other employees in
his practice, submitted more than $11.1
million in Medicare claims as a result of
this scheme, Rhode said.
Sources familiar with the investigation
said that Bhambhani was taken into custody
by federal agents on the morning of
July 13 at John F. Kennedy International
Airport, aft er he departed a fl ight from
India.
Federal law enforcement agents also
arrested Xiaoliang Zhang, 53, a physician
specializing in rehabilitation who
operates the Elmhurst United Medical
P.C., which has clinics at 45-02 82nd
St. in Elmhurst and 41-60 Main St. in
Flushing.
Prosecutors said that Zhang allegedly
ordered his staff to submit $27 million
in Medicare and Medicaid claims
covering physical therapy services that
were deemed medically unnecessary for
his patients. Th e Elmhurst and Flushing
clinics were raided by federal agents in
connection with the investigation.
Finally, Bayside resident Mayura
Kanekar, 42, was arrested along with
four other healthcare professionals for
allegedly fi ling $100 million in fraudulent
Medicare claims out of practices
based in Brooklyn and Queens. Law
enforcement sources said Kanekar, an
occupational therapist who worked out
of a Brooklyn clinic, allegedly worked
with the co-defendants to pay illegal
kickbacks for client referrals.
Th e clients referred to them were later
subjected to unnecessary physical and
occupational therapy for which Medicare
would be billed, prosecutors said.
“Doctors, medical professionals and
others who defraud Medicare and
Medicaid and pay illegal kickbacks
to line their pockets at the taxpayers’
expense are on notice that they will
be investigated and prosecuted,” Rohde
said.
In all, 412 individuals across the country
have been arrested in the sting conducted
by the Medicare Fraud Strike
Force which Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and Health & Human Services
Secretary Tom Price announced on July
13. Th e arrested suspects allegedly perpetrated
health care fraud schemes that
resulted in a combined $1.3 billion in
fraudulent claims.