82-year-old, 14 others arrested in $80 million medicare scheme: cops

As part of the largest ever nationwide crackdown on Medicare fraud, Brooklyn prosecutors charged 15 people, including an 82-year-old woman who put her name to 3,744 Medicare claims since 2004.

Valentina Mushinskaya's nephew said his diabetes-stricken aunt was clueless about the scam at Bay Medical - allegedly run by a doctor with a penthouse, a Mercedes-Benz and a yacht.

"She feels ashamed, absolutely shocked," said Vladimir Olshansky after she was released on $30,000 bail.

Prosecutors say five clinics in the city bilked the government out of $78 million through claims for unnecessary or phantom services.

The feds infiltrated the so-called "kickback room" at the Bay Parkway clinic where patients collected $50 to $100 payments for each bogus visit, prosecutors said.