0:00 [Music] a dentist has been found guilty of damaging patients teeth in order to boost profits oh damn a crooked mechanic yeah he's breaking people's crowns wow this uh wisconsin dentist was found guilty of health care fraud and other charges after he intentionally damaged his patients teeth to boost profits raking in millions from his scheme maybe the problem there's not enough population in wisconsin so they're like how am i going to increase my customer base when i only got a handful of customers in this small town repeat customers exactly logically it kind of makes sense it does though it does what what's his scheme yeah okay so prosecutors get them a lot of candy
0:50 [Laughter] that's all it is get them with their kids give them for coming here's a 50 pack of kitkats uh prosecutors say this guy's name is uh scott carmolli he's 61 years old convicted of five counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of making false claims about his client's treatments um he had routinely drilled or broken his client's teeth on purpose charging them for additional treatment services to fix the damage he had just done what so he wasn't even lying about the damage he would just be like oops that was right again imagine like the dancers like cleaning your ████ or something like that and be like and actually damaging it and then being like oh my god you have a damaged tooth oh yeah you have a drilled tooth how'd that drill get out you've been chewing some drills so as a result carmali's profits ballooned with the dentist going from making 1.4 million dollars and
1:42 installing 434 crowns in 2014 to 2.5 million dollars in 2015 installing over 1 000 crowns this one made a million already i'm pretty impressed by his in wisconsin yeah dude he's killing it yeah that's not bad right he's shooting wisconsin that s█████ ass state kind of like dumbass billionaire dude he's jeff bezos how many ████ houses that would be already according to prosecutors in 2015 carmeli began pressuring his clients into getting unnecessary crowns a dental procedure where a tooth-shaped cap is placed on a damaged tooth he would drill or break his client's teeth and send x-rays of the intentional damage to insurance as before photos to justify the crown procedures so what um how did he get caught well one client a
2:32 guy named tadeshi testified that carmeli pressured him into getting two crowns in one appointment despite tadeshi believing that his teeth were fine it seemed excessive but i didn't know any better he was the professional so i trusted him some of the patients that carmeli badgered into unnecessary procedures were also vulnerable to prosecutors some of these patients were extremely vulnerable individuals in abusive relationships recently widowed survivors of cancer and living paycheck to paycheck he know how to target scrounging to afford kofi a copay is required this fool's a psychopath yikes he made 1.5 million you know like not enough for him actually between 2016 to 2019 he build more than 4.2 million for crowns wow performing more crowns than 95 percent of dentists in wisconsin during that time oh see that's because they
3:22 didn't have yelp back then this is 2016. never mind yelp was really bad back then though really bad what's the average cost of one crown i have no idea seven thousand dollars i know like a a dental implant is like a thousand per tooth crowns are expensive i don't know about that they're pretty expensive right what's retail on the crown you know anybody i don't know look on offer i figured out like something that was just enough affordable yeah and you could convince them and according to testimony from an insurance company executive while an average wisconsin dentist performs fewer than six crowns for every 100 patients carmeli's rate exceeded more than 32 crowns per 100 clients and that's why they keep all those snaps yeah statistically they're like wait a minute it's funny that's two closest insurance companies are the ones that find out because they're like you ████ with my money
4:13 well i love that that they could see the anomalies like that that's dope yeah by the end of 2020 he had over 6.8 million dollars worth of assets with vacation homes in wisconsin and arizona i wonder if his his ████ local access commercial is like i'm the crown king come see me that would hide it better almost you know it's like why do i have an inflated amount of people taking ████ crowns because i'm the crown guy everybody comes to me [Laughter] more people than wisconsin even has the stats don't lie i'm the crowd there's carson don't even have any teeth how do you do that nearly 100 of carmeli's former patients have sued him
5:05 for medical malpractice with those cases set to begin once his federal criminal proceedings are over so he's going to be in some trouble for a long he's ████ dude yeah he's so ████ up right so yeah oh and it says here his uh schemes were eventually unearthed when he sold his dental practice in 2019 while reviewing his files the new owners noted the high rate of crown procedures had done and reported him to authorities so it's actually the people that bought his dental business damn he got got he thought he thought he was too slick oh ████ someone kicks it it says i'm gonna give him all the crowns he runs into a former patient as a cellmate yeah he goes you know what i have 50 crowns in my mouth he's like i only do 32 teeth i got 50 crops but your teeth look
5:55 amazing it said uh the health and safety of patients is my highest concern as a doctor as medical professionals we take an oath to do no harm to our patients which is why i felt the ethical obligation to report activity that i believed to be suspicious wrote the new owner where's dope man spoken like a true snitch you think you would rat if you were the dentist that found out okay let's say you're the guy right you're you're the guy who's committing all these crimes and i'm the new guy trying to buy your office and then in the negotiation you're asking for more than you ████ deserve yeah i'm trying to ████ you over i mean if you did some ████ that was unnecessary but if you gave me a ████ good deal if you gave me a good deal that's probably where you ████ die you might try to overlook it or just like oh it's fine this guy probably thinks he can get it with everything try to ████ the uh other business owner over and he got ████ himself that's what he gets because the new guy who bought it is never going to be able to match the
6:45 previous numbers so it's not a win for him so he is going to expose him or else it's going to look like it was a bad investment he's going to go oh man i did way worse than what the ████ i only made a million and he said he made four am i bad am i no good i mean how many how many dentists out there are making a million a year no no you have to own your own practice some some of those guys rake it in but maybe it's a 24-hour dental place or it's constant customers this guy's doing 24 hour shifts just [Laughter] 365. before he's going down the streets and he's just wearing a mask and punching people in the face breaking their people at 3am are like i need a crown right now
7:35 i can't wait i'm looking on a dentalpost.net that does a salary survey type in wisconsin too i have every state for example california on average it says 160 000 a year salary if i go down to wisconsin yeah that's what i thought wisconsin is 200 000. also it is more over there that's because of that guy he ████ brought that ████ away you started the crown trend it kind of works out yeah it kind of makes sense does kind of make sense i think actually let me see if no vermont has 254 000 which means vermont you got some illegal activity going on rhode island 258 thousand why the ████ these small ass places you know what it is too is is like different places also have different insurance like insurance pays for a lot like a lot of people here don't have dental like if you have dental like if you it's like
8:26 all right you know what i mean you just get ████ done without even thinking here it's like you gotta weigh the pros and cons and the costs down in mexico [Laughter] just for cleaning because i gotta go to tijuana i kept the uh i kept the job that had full health benefits like eye teeth whatever right because i was starting to feel my teeth hurt my wisdom teeth was growing out and then my uh the dentist was like you're probably gonna need that pulled out in in the next six months to a year so i'm like thank god if i get hired into this place after after six months probation when you're a full-time employee they're gonna take care of all that so i was like yes and that costs thousands bro if you're making like you're making like 12 bucks an hour like thousands is like dude that's like a whole month or two of your pay right so like
9:16 that ████ was covered and i was like so hella thankful and then after that i quit but like dude nice you know me like as you should that's you gotta do that ████ well i i quit to pursue jk you know what i mean that was my last job job but then i could have stayed with them as a thank you but like i don't know man you gotta get yours you do the right thing yeah what else are you gonna do you know but i'm just wondering when we're gonna get dental for working here well you're not an employee so i don't know where where where hold up hey when you get married bro you get some nice insurance benefits that's what i'm on brad you guys get wow what happened dog i'm cause you're a white bird oh because oh cause she's a health care professional and she was a baby and she might she might i don't know well no molly don't don't ask about it yeah he's married to a doctor dude it's fine my lady's at a a clinic though so i don't get you know the same full things yeah but you know we'll see we still got time
10:07 we're trying to figure it out there's big hospitals in vegas that need what your your girl does i ████ up man what a stable job girl we're with foreigners i have nothing dad mine's australian [Music] [Applause] [Music] you
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