Examining the network components of a Medicare fraud scheme

Abstract

White-collar crime researchers have noted the stagnating nature of white-collar crime research and data, calling for use of a wider-range of methodological procedures to uncover the empirical reality of white-collar crime and offending in the U.S. Using a collection of archival data, the present study examines the structural components of the Mirzoyan-Terdjanian organization, a transnational organized crime network that defrauded the United States Medicare system out of more than $100 million. Policy implications that can be derived from the use of social networking techniques will be discussed.