United States Attorney David Capp

Northern District of Indiana

5400 Federal Plaza, Suite 1500

Hammond, Indiana 46320

Hammond South Bend Fort Wayne

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Mary Hatton

August 30, 2012 PHONE: (219) 937-5603

www.usdoj.gov/usao/inn/ FAX (219) 852-2770

ROSSVILLE MAN SENTENCED IN HEALTH CARE FRAUD AND TAX EVASION CASE

Hammond, Indiana - United States Attorney David Capp announced that Chad Shedron, 36, of Rossville, Indiana, was sentenced by Chief Judge Philip Simon to 57 months imprisonment and 1 year of supervised release after pleading guilty to a 2 count Information charging him with the felony offenses of executing a scheme to defraud the Indiana Medicaid health benefit program and evading federal income tax.

According to the plea agreement filed in this case, Shedron agreed to a money judgment in the amount of $3,521,961.22 which represents the dollar amount of proceeds derived from the health care fraud. He also agreed that the tax loss for 2007 was approximately $189,009.00, and further agreed that he is responsible for tax losses of $164,728.99 for 2008, $141,623.00 in 2009 and $32,310.00 in 2010. Further, Shedron agreed to forfeit his personal residence, $65,000.00 in cash, a brokerage account, jewelry and a baseball card collection with an estimated value of over $200,000.00.

This case was the result of an investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services – Office of the Inspector General, the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Indiana Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Diane Berkowitz.