WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON -Michelle Shropshire,55, of Waldorf, Maryland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to24months in prison in connection with a four-year scheme to defraud AFLAC insurance company of hundreds of thousands of dollars, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
"Michelle Shropshire turned her own coworkers into accomplices, forged the signatures of doctors who had nothing to do with her lies, and built a four-year fraud operation on the backs of injured workers," said U.S. Attorney Pirro. "Health care fraud steals from every honest policyholder who pays their premiums, and this offi...