Gregory Charles Banks – Valor Vulture

Long time known Valor Thief Gregory Banks is in the news… again.  According to justice.gov, it seems he now gets to leave his fecal stain in prison.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GREGORY C. BANKS,50, of Brookfield, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to health care fraud.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Banks owned and operated North East Counseling & Trauma Services and Gregory Banks Counseling, LLC.  North East Counseling & Trauma Services, which had an office in Danbury, provided counseling services to individual patients, including those with mental health and trauma issues.  Banks was enrolled individually as a Behavioral Health Clinician provider in the Connecticut Medicaid Program (“Medicaid”), but North East Counseling & Trauma Services and Gregory Banks Counseling LLC were never enrolled as providers in Medicaid.

Between January 2018 and July 2022, Banks submitted and caused to be submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid for counseling services that were purportedly provided to Medicaid clients.  Specifically, Banks submitted claims for dates of service when no services of any kind had been provided to the Medicaid clients identified in the claims.

In October 2020, the Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS) audited Banks and his businesses and requested documentation from Banks for six sample clients.  In response, Banks made multiple false statements for the purpose of delaying the progress of DSS’s audit and to conceal his offense.  For example, in February 2021, Banks sent an email to DSS in which he falsely represented that one of the files DSS requested was destroyed by a water leak above his office when, in fact, no such water leak had occurred.

Through this scheme, Banks defrauded Medicaid of $1,044,387.08.  As part of his plea, Banks has agreed to pay full restitution.

Judge Shea scheduled sentencing for March 13, 2023, at which time Banks faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years.

Jonn posted about this Valor Vulture starting in 2014.  We have fed the Google Gods information about him many times for nearly a decade.

The Round Ranger was such an internet hit, Guy put together another wanted poster for our buddy Greg Banks, who is going to be famous in Connecticut tonight. Greg’s back story is that he’s one of those rare phonies who never served but promoted himself to an Army Major and awarded himself the Bronze Star Medal a few weeks ago. He claims that someone stole his identity, but apparently the identity thief also stole his face. Greg doesn’t have the gonads to call me himself, so he sent his teenage phony Marine after me. But here is his wanted poster. Is this enough attention for you, Greg?

“Life Coaching” well,  color me skeptical.  I can not help but wonder how many phony veterans or embellished imbeciles are now parking in veteran spaces and getting some form of disability for nonexistent PTSD because of this clown.  Sadly, his client list needs to be gone through.  We will be glad to assist with verifying any of their service claims.

I feel badly for legit people who reached out to him for professional help and were duped by this clown.  However, unless they were incapable of doing a simple Google Search before seeing this fraud, my sympathy runs a bit shallow.

My guess is he may have has some kind of professional insurance issued by a company that could not use Google either.  If that is the case,  the lawyers will be swooping in to feed on some cash.

What ever happened to Tort Reform?

 

Category: Army Poser, Valor Vultures, Veteran Health Care