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'Birth tourism' scheme led to 119 babies born on Long Island, prosecutors say
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foxnews.comSix people were indicted Tuesday in connection with a "birth tourism" and money-laundering scheme in Long Island, N.Y., that resulted in 119 children being born in the United States, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
From January 2017 to September 2020, 117 mothers traveled from Turkey to give birth in the U.S. so their children could obtain citizenship and benefits.
It resulted in $2.1 million in losses to Medicaid, authorities said. "Using Internet ads, the defendants perpetrated an international fraud that relied upon a parade of women who paid them thousands of dollars in fees in order to enter the United States under false pretenses, to give birth here," Acting U.S.
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