<p>Anirudh Lakhan Sukhu, 43, was sentenced to 255 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for an armed bank robbery and shooting a bank teller in the hand with a shotgun in 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. <br /><br /> An Indiana district court judge Friday sentenced a former Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) student Vikram Buddhi, 38, to 57 months in prison for allegedly making threats against former president George W. Bush. <br /><br /> And two other persons of Indian origin pleaded guilty in connection with multiple health care fraud schemes in Detroit, Michigan. <br /><br /> Baskaran Thangarasan, 37, a physio therapist faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine while Sandeep Aggarwal, 38, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine for running a sham health management firm. <br /><br /> According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation the alleged robber, Sukhu with two accomplices robbed the Bank of America in Clarksville, Maryland on Nov 20, 2008 and shot a bank employee with a sawed-off 12 gauge shotgun. <br /><br /> Arrested in 2006, Buddhi was convicted by a jury in June, 2007 on all counts in an eleven count indictment. The former Purdue University PhD student was accused of posting a threatening message directed towards Bush and others on a financial web-site message board. <br /><br /> In the third case, Thangarasan admitted that between Sep 2003 and May 2006, his co-conspirators submitted claims to the Medicare programmes totalling approximately $5,055,000 for files that were falsified by him. Medicare actually paid approximately $2,325,000 on those claims. <br /><br /> In his plea in the same case, Aggarwal admitted to assisting co-conspirator Suresh Chand in laundering the proceeds of Chand's Medicare fraud scheme. <br /><br /> Chand, who pleaded guilty in September 2009 admitted to conspiring to submit about $18 million in fraudulent physical and occupational therapy claims to the Medicare programme. Aggarwal admitted he and Chand laundered approximately $393,000 through a sham entity called Global Health Care Management Services. <br /></p>
<p>Anirudh Lakhan Sukhu, 43, was sentenced to 255 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for an armed bank robbery and shooting a bank teller in the hand with a shotgun in 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. <br /><br /> An Indiana district court judge Friday sentenced a former Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) student Vikram Buddhi, 38, to 57 months in prison for allegedly making threats against former president George W. Bush. <br /><br /> And two other persons of Indian origin pleaded guilty in connection with multiple health care fraud schemes in Detroit, Michigan. <br /><br /> Baskaran Thangarasan, 37, a physio therapist faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine while Sandeep Aggarwal, 38, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine for running a sham health management firm. <br /><br /> According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation the alleged robber, Sukhu with two accomplices robbed the Bank of America in Clarksville, Maryland on Nov 20, 2008 and shot a bank employee with a sawed-off 12 gauge shotgun. <br /><br /> Arrested in 2006, Buddhi was convicted by a jury in June, 2007 on all counts in an eleven count indictment. The former Purdue University PhD student was accused of posting a threatening message directed towards Bush and others on a financial web-site message board. <br /><br /> In the third case, Thangarasan admitted that between Sep 2003 and May 2006, his co-conspirators submitted claims to the Medicare programmes totalling approximately $5,055,000 for files that were falsified by him. Medicare actually paid approximately $2,325,000 on those claims. <br /><br /> In his plea in the same case, Aggarwal admitted to assisting co-conspirator Suresh Chand in laundering the proceeds of Chand's Medicare fraud scheme. <br /><br /> Chand, who pleaded guilty in September 2009 admitted to conspiring to submit about $18 million in fraudulent physical and occupational therapy claims to the Medicare programme. Aggarwal admitted he and Chand laundered approximately $393,000 through a sham entity called Global Health Care Management Services. <br /></p>