Lab owner pleads guilty in $300 million coronavirus testing scheme tied to ex-Loretto Hospital executive
<p>A lab owner pleaded guilty Wednesday to bilking the federal government out of hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a coronavirus testing scheme tied to former Loretto Hospital financial officer Anosh Ahmed.</p><p>Mohamed Sirajudeen, 53, from Chicago, is the first person convicted in the two pending criminal cases involving Ahmed. Charges were previously dropped against two of their co-defendants in the testing scheme amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that surfaced when the "Broadview Six" case collapsed.</p><p>Sirajudeen and the other defendants in that case were <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/06/17/former-loretto-hospital-executive-charged-fake-covid-testing-scheme" target="_blank" >accused of attempting to defraud the U.S.
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<p>A lab owner pleaded guilty Wednesday to bilking the federal government out of hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a coronavirus testing scheme tied to former Loretto Hospital financial officer Anosh Ahmed.</p><p>Mohamed Sirajudeen, 53, from Chicago, is the first person convicted in the two pending criminal cases involving Ahmed. Charges were previously dropped against two of their co-defendants in the testing scheme amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that surfaced when the "Broadview Six" case collapsed.</p><p>Sirajudeen and the other defendants in that case were <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/06/17/former-loretto-hospital-executive-charged-fake-covid-testing-scheme" target="_blank" >accused of attempting to defraud the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</a> out of nearly $900 million through fraudulent COVID-19 testing claims. Prosecutors said roughly $300 million was paid out, and more than $200 million went to Sirajudeen's business, O'Hare Clinical Lab Services.</p><p>The feds’ probe of Ahmed and Loretto Hospital dates back to 2021, when Block Club Chicago reported the hospital had shared COVID-19 vaccines with employees at Trump Tower, where Ahmed had a condo.
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- <p>A lab owner pleaded guilty Wednesday to bilking the federal government out of hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a coronavirus testing scheme tied to former Loretto Hospital financial officer Anosh Ahmed.</p><p>Mohamed Sirajudeen, 53, from Chicago, is the first person convicted in the two pending criminal cases involving Ahmed. Charges were previously dropped against two of their co-defendants in the testing scheme amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that surfaced when the "Broadview Six" case collapsed.</p><p>Sirajudeen and the other defendants in that case were <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/06/17/former-loretto-hospital-executive-charged-fake-covid-testing-scheme" target="_blank" >accused of attempting to defraud the U.S.
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