Cleveland Heights Woman Arrested for $7 Million Healthcare Fraud Scheme

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH - A jury convicted a mother and son on Monday of a $7 million healthcare fraud scheme. The pair created fake documents and forms to bill people for services that were not actually provided.

Delores Knight, 70, of Cleveland Heights, and her son Isaac Knight, 29, of Macedonia, were convicted of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and healthcare fraud. Delores was also convicted on multiple counts of money laundering.

Court documents say that Delores owned a pair of companies called Just Like Familee II, Inc. and Just Like Familee III, Inc. Both companies provided home health services for elderly and disabled clients. Isaac served as the manager of the company. There were Just Like Familee locations in Cleveland Heights, Twinsburg, and Mentor.

The mother-and-son duo forged false reports and documents and then submitted them to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. They received more than $7 million as a result of their scheme.

“These defendants stole millions of dollars by billing for services they never provided,” said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon. “We will do our best to get whatever assets they have and make sure they go to prison.”

Rendon's office says they're expecting the pair to receive sentencing sometime later this year. As part of that sentencing, prosecutors are looking to force the Knights to forfeit all of their illegally obtained money and a home on Morning Glory Drive in Macedonia, which is owned by Delores.

The Knights were discovered and arrested following an investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the IRS, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

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