Opinion ID: 2967751
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Heading: The Automobile Purchase

Text: In September of 1993, Nelson assisted Ms. Bolden in concealing the use of Emerald Health funds to purchase an automobile for her personal use. In this aspect of the fraud scheme, Ms. Bolden first issued an Emerald Health check for approximately $18,000, payable to NationsBank. Nelson, purporting to act on behalf of Emerald Health, took the check to NationsBank in Statesville, North Carolina, where he purchased a cashier’s check in that sum, payable to Nelson Enterprises. Nelson next drove to nearby Newton, and, using the cashier’s check, purchased a $17,000 cashier’s check from Southern 14 In addition to billing Medicaid for patients not in its nursing facility, Emerald Health falsified its Medicaid Bills for patients it actually treated. It charged Medicaid at the more costly ventilator care rate for Medicaid patients, even though such patients actually received less costly intermediate or skilled nursing care. See supra note 8. UNITED STATES v. BOLDEN 13 National Bank, payable to State Employees Credit Union. Nelson retained $1,000 as his fee and used the $17,000 cashier’s check to purchase a vehicle for Ms. Bolden. These transactions served to conceal Ms. Bolden’s use of Emerald Health’s funds to purchase her personal automobile. The $18,000 Emerald Health check to NationsBank was reflected as an indirect cost on the 1993 Cost Report.