N.J. doctor who scammed Amtrak health care provider gets prison sentence

An Essex County doctor accused of recruiting Amtrak employees to fraudulently bill their health insurance for unnecessary services and then paying kickbacks to the employees was sentenced to 26 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Tuesday. Muhammad Mirza, 51, of Cedar Grove previously plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Between April 2017 and June 2022, Mirza and other conspirators agreed to bill Amtrak’s employee health care plan for services that were never provided or were medically unnecessary, prosecutors alleged in the...