CONCORD, NH.- A 35-year-old Falmouth, Mass., man pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping launder money from a Medicare fraud scheme that involved more than $6 million in false claims, federal prosecutors said.
Leo Anzivino Jr. pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering before U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire. His sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 21, 2027. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
According to court documents, Anzivino agreed to pose as the owner of Advanced Medical Supply Corp., a medical equipment company based in Rochester, New Hampshire. Prosecutors said his associates were the company’s actual owners and managers.
The company submitted more than $6 million in claims to Medicare for medical equipment, including knee braces and back braces, that beneficiaries did not need and doctors had not prescribed. The company used fake orders bearing the names of doctors who had not ordered the equipment, prosecutors said. Medicare paid more than $3 million based on those claims.
Some Medicare beneficiaries returned the equipment with notes stating they had never ordered it and alleging fraud.
Prosecutors said Anzivino helped hide his associates’ involvement by listing himself as the company’s owner on Medicare enrollment forms. He also submitted false documents to a New Hampshire bank, claiming he was the sole owner of at least 25% of the company when others actually owned it.
Anzivino then tried to transfer more than $1 million from the company’s bank account to businesses connected to one of his associates, prosecutors said. After a bank employee questioned whether those businesses were legitimate and advised him to investigate them, Anzivino opened an account at another bank with branches in Massachusetts.
Anzivino later learned that the company would lose its ability to bill Medicare because of several problems, including the inability to verify his ownership. In messages to another person, he discussed the revocation and said people who had given him money would seek it back. He also said his associate still wanted him to send money but claimed he would refuse.
Despite those messages, Anzivino transferred $1,494,938.09 in three transactions over the following five weeks, prosecutors said.
In 2024, the government seized approximately $353,768.29 from the company’s bank account in connection with the alleged scheme.
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