Jeffco businessmen charged with $12 million Medicaid fraud involving nonexistent eyeglasses

A pair of Jefferson County businessmen defrauded $12 million from Colorado’s Medicaid program by charging the state healthcare program for eyeglasses that did not exist, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser alleged in a June indictment.

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