Two Plead Guilty in $1.7 Million Federal Comp Scheme

For eight years, two Chicago women billed the federal workers' compensation program for round-the-clock care of an injured postal worker. Last week, the two admitted that they did not provide constant care and pleaded guilty to bilking the program out of $1.7 million. Ella Garner, 62, and Chante Carrothers, 40, pleaded guilty in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. As part of their guilty pleas, the women admitted that from June 2010 through April 2018, they conspired to defraud the U.S. O...