BOSTON, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal trial jury today convicted a Shrewsbury man of mail fraud, health care fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, in connection with false billings to automobile insurance companies for medical tests.

United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Kenneth W. Kaiser, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New England; and Douglas A. Bricker, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, announced today that SEVERIN YELAUN, age 32, of Framingham, was convicted by a trial jury sitting before U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, of 26 counts of mail fraud, one count of health care fraud, one count of conspiracy, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Evidence presented during the two-week jury trial proved that YELAUN was a principal of numerous Massachusetts businesses involved in providing physical therapy and diagnostic tests to patients who were injured in automobile accidents. Between 1999 and 2002, two of the businesses, Global Tech Diagnostics based in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and Lynn Diagnostics Management based in Lynn, Massachusetts, billed automobile insurance companies for diagnostic tests that were never performed. The fraudulent Global Tech billings exceeded $100,000 and the fraudulent Lynn Diagnostics billings exceeded $50,000.

Three co-defendants, David Tamaren, age 62, of 22 Skinners Path, Marblehead, Massachusetts, John Montoni, age 53, of 193 Washington Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Igor Moyseyev, age 47, of 20 Keefe Avenue, Newtonville, Massachusetts, previously pleaded guilty to participating in the fraudulent billing scheme.

While working at YELAUN's Chelsea and Lynn clinics, David Tamaren, who was a medical doctor, and John Montoni, who was a chiropractor, signed numerous prescriptions for needle electromyograms (a nerve function test) that were not medically necessary and that were never actually performed. At YELAUN's request, Montoni also signed phony reports indicating that the tests had been done. Igor Moyseyev owned the Chelsea clinic with YELAUN. YELAUN and Moyseyev submitted the phony reports to insurance companies for reimbursement, and then conspired to launder a portion of the proceeds of the fraud by using them to keep the Global Tech business in operation.

Judge Gorton scheduled sentencing for March 16, 2007. YELAUN faces up to 20 years' imprisonment on all of the counts of conviction, except for the conspiracy count which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison. All the counts carry a maximum of 3 years of supervised release.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney William D. Weinreb in Sullivan's Organized Crime Strike Force Unit and Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregg D. Shapiro in Sullivan's Civil Division.

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