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General Hunter: Corporate savings should be passed on to Oklahoma customers

OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Mike Hunter has filed five motions with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), asking for an immediate reduction in customer rates from the state’s leading utility companies.

The attorney general’s request came the day that a sweeping overhaul of federal income taxes was signed into law, to take effect Jan. 1. The new law lowers the highest corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal grand jury has charged the owners of a diabetic supply company with 115-counts of Medicaid fraud, after the couple filed false claims to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.

According to the indictment, Eunja Vasquez, 55, and Lawrence Vasquez, 61, owners of Mercy Diabetic Supply, Inc., not affiliated with Mercy health system, falsified Medicaid claims for insulin pump supplies for patients who didn’t use insulin pumps for treating their diabetes. Additionally, some of the claims were filed for patients who didn’t have diabetes.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Mike Hunter’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has filed charges on an Oklahoma City health care provider who allegedly ran a Medicaid scam from a Oklahoma City counseling business.

Augustine Uche, 57, of Oklahoma City, was charged with two counts of Medicaid fraud and two counts of unlawful use of a computer to commit a criminal offense for submitting false Medicaid claims for services that were never performed and excessive fees to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) totaling more than $34,000.