By Mitch Hotts For The Voice

Checarol Robinson, 41, of New Baltimore, had hoped the court would waive a condition of her bond, which restricts her travel to southeast Michigan until the criminal case is resolved.

Isnt one of the conditions of the bond that you will not leave the country? Im not going to interfere with this, said U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Mona Majzoub at an arraignment hearing at the federal courthouse in Detroit.

Defense attorney James Lawrence acknowledged the travel restrictions as part of the conditions that allowed his client to remain free on a $10,000 unsecured bond pending trial.

Before she was indicted earlier this year she made plans to celebrate her first wedding anniversary with her husband in Aruba, Lawrence said in court.

The judge declined to overrule the bond condition but did agree to allow pre-trial services officials to review the matter and possibly come back with a waiver.

Robinson is one of 22 people named in a federal grand jury indictment on Medicare fraud charges that was unsealed last week by the U.S. Attorneys Office.

She faces charges of health care fraud and conspiracy to commit health care fraud for her alleged role in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting phony claims for psychotherapy services.

According to the indictment, Robinson was director of P&C Adult Day Care Center on Van Dyke in Detroit and took part in the scheme since 2006 along with Lousia Thompson, who owned several adult foster care facilities in Detroit. The indictment alleges the two submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare for services that were not performed or not needed. They would then pocket the payments, the indictment states.

Also Tuesday, Sachin Sharma and his wife, Dana, both of Shelby Township, were formally arraigned on similar but unrelated health care fraud charges in federal court. Continued...

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