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New York CityRegion Rockland Journal-News Tuesday, October 19, 1993 B5 IN BRIEF Clinic owner indicted on fraud charge The Associated Press NEW YORK The owner of a Bronx medical clinic was arrested yesterday on charges of stealing more than $500,000 from the state Medicaid program through tens of thousands of unnecessary and often fictitious sonograms. Between March 1987 and October 1988, Moses Tambe allegedly delivered shopping bags full of sonograms, including thousands from the same person, to different radiologists who then billed the state for the tests and shared the money with Tambe and his partner. The accomplice remains at large. According to an indictment -handed up yesterday, Tambe "allegedly ran an assembly-line operation, taking needless sonograms of Medicaid addicts who came to the clinic solely to obtain prescriptions for drugs they could later sell on the street," said Edward J. Kuriansky, the state special prosecutor for Medicaid fraud control.

Earlier this month, Khalid Ahmed, an ultrasound technician at Tambe's clinic, was charged in a separate indictment with stealing $50,000 from Medicaid between July 1987 and January 1989 for fabricating thousands of counterfeit images from a few sonograms. Both Tambe and Ahmed were charged with grand larceny, punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment, and conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of four years. Giuliani attacks Dinkins' policies Mayor endorsed by Latin leaders The Associated Press NEW YORK Rudolph Giuliani said yesterday that Mayor David Dinkins has no drug policy and that neighborhoods are being destroyed. Meanwhile, more than 150 Hispanic elected leaders and community representatives gave their backing to Dinkins, saying he had promoted the interests of Latinos during the past four years. Giuliani, the Republican-Liberal candidate in the race for mayor, attacked what he called Dinkins' lack of action on drugs at a gathering of 150 supporters in the Sheraton New York Hotel.

He cited a state report that said there was a 75 percent increase in hospital emergencies involving cocaine in the summer of 1992, but that coke arrests were down 37.5 percent over the past three years. Heroin medical emergencies were up 124 percent, he said. "What is so tragic is that the mayor just doesn't have any clue that his policies are responsible for The Associated Press SMACK! NYC mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani gets a smooch from a supporter yesterday after a speech at the Sheraton New York hotel. He said David Dinkins is harming the city by having no policy on drugs. Giuliani that he has won broad support in the Latin community.

The mayor also was endorsed by the New York League of Conservation Voters, about 1,000 environmentalists who live in the city. Robert F. Kennedy, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, called Dinkins "the 'greenest' mayor we ever had." over to the drug dealers," Giuliani. He said he would go after drug kingpins and street dealers, provide for treatment on demand, have the city seize assets of convicted drug dealers and create drug- and crime-free zones around schools. Dinkins was joined on the steps of City Hall by some of the city's top Hispanic leaders, who were trying to help the mayor counter claims by is easy to find the best deal what's happening to our neighborhoods," Giuliani said.

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District Court. State honors novelist, poet ALBANY William Gaddis, winner of a National Book Award for best fiction, was named New York's official state author and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard was designated the state's poet laureate yesterday. Gaddis will receive the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for fiction writers and Howard the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for poets from Gov. Mario Cuomo at a ceremony in Albany on Nov. 10.

Lawmakers cry foul over computer bids ALBANY Three state sen ators angry that IBM lost a lucrative state contract to a Pennsylvania competitor said yesterday that New York officials should review the process that led to IBM's rejection. Republican State Sens. Stephen Saland, William Larkin and Charles Cook, whose districts encompass the Hudson Valley, said awarding a computer contract to Unisys would deal another economic blow to their region, where thousands of jobs have been lost to IBM layoffs. The senators have requested that Gov. Mario Cuomo stop the contract negotiations until the decision can be evaluated.

Cuomo has said he has no authority to interfere in the bidding process. Report: Hospital treatment is unequal NEW YORK -The state is investigating a claim that insured patients got better maternity services at a New York hospital than welfare patients. But even civil rights advocates concede that the issue won't be easily resolved. Fred Heigel, director of the state's Bureau of Hospital Services, said yesterday the bureau will examine Mount Sinai Medical Center and, eventually, other hospitals, to see whether disparities exist and whether they are warranted. A published report said that at Mount Sinai, poorer mothers often black or Hispanic were shunted to a dreary ward with chipped paint.

And they weren't given the same instruction in infant care, nutrition, breastfeeding and exercise that richer women received, the report said. Mount Sinai was formulating a statement, said spokeswoman Kelly Larkin. Man killed by Amtrak train BEACON, N.Y. A man had his back turned and did not react to the sound of the whistle of the Amtrak train that struck and killed him, officials said yesterday. Carter Elsbree, 44, of Beacon was killed about 7:50 p.m.

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