Feds Say Firm Used DNA from Elderly

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Prosecutors say employees visited senior centers, churches, and synagogues to convince people to provide DNA swabs from their mouths. Some were offered gift cards. Donors thought they would learn their chances of getting cancer but the tests were part of a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme. Read a story from the Chicago Sun Times.

 

 

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