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Prosecutors Allege Oren Shachar Paid for Identities of Dead People in Hospice Fraud Case
['Hugh Grant']
Axcess News
The inclusion of next-of-kin information allegedly created another pathway, allowing people connected with Shachar to approach grieving relatives and seek health details or signatures that could make a retrospective hospice record appear more complete.
Prosecutors may answer those challenges by closely comparing communications with funeral-home access logs, payment records, hospice admissions, medical-record requests, beneficiary death dates, and claim submissions that allegedly followed the transferred information soon afterward.
When those fields match legitimate government and medical records, a fabricated claim may initially appear internally consistent even though the supposed patient encounter, certification, election, or service described by the file never happened.
The listed identity-use dates were August 14, August 25, and November 3 during 2025, and each charge is tied to a related healthcare-fraud count involving an alleged hospice claim submitted later that year.
Using deceased identities is especially hazardous because government death records, medical histories, credit files, biometric systems, relatives, and archival documents can eventually expose contradictions that no fabricated backstory can reliably reconcile across interconnected databases.