FL - Megan Todt 42, Alek 13, Tyler 11, Zoe 4, & dog Breezy, Celebration, 6 Jan 2020 *ARREST*

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Angels27 said:
It is possible for people to get into debt by overextending themselves with employees, offices, family expenses (sports, clothes, food, medical, Christmas gifts, travel, etc) rental properties, trips. In fact most Americans are in debt. The difference here, besides murdering his whole family, is the degree of debt and level of deception. He didn’t have one cent left to even pay his rent. He told no one including family, employees, friends etc that they were in such dire straights and about to be evicted, lose their jobs, and that their checks were about to bounce at Christmas, no less. Not to mention the fraud against the insurance companies, and the 20 plus high interest loans and cash advances.

Another curious thing is that he paid creditors $278,000 the day before he killed everyone. Instead of paying family’s rent and employees salary at Christmas. Odd choice to say the least. Where did he get that money and what was his reasoning. That would be enough cash to pay rent for 4.5 years. Unless one of those creditors was a line at a casino n he didn’t want to it known he was gambling, wrongly thinking it would never be found out. My guess is since he did have the cash it seems to temporarily bail himself out maybe he was just so devastated and embarrassed by something (maybe compulsive gambling n the inability to quit) that he saw no other long term option then to stop the bleeding by paying off creditors and wiping out family n possibly himself. But he had plenty of time to commit suicide and did not. jmo.
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Angles27 & everyone, I was looking for source document regarding the $278,000 financial transaction. Any chance you have it?
 
7Niki3 said:
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I think *he* fell off the financial cliff. My newish theory is that killed his family b/c he felt like he could not bear to tell them all the financial and legal troubles he found himself in. I think he kept the financial issues, including the Medicaid Fraud/Dept of Health and Human Services investigation to himself and didn't tell his wife, or if he did share, he didn't disclose the full truth. I think the eviction notice for the rental house in Celebration was the straw that broke the camel's back. He knew the Dept of Health/Human Services were closing in on him - he knew the investigation was close to wrapping up and he has told the investigators that he was 'getting a lawyer' but the sad fact is that he didn't have the money to get an attorney to take some of the heat off himself. He had borrowed money from something like 20 short-term lenders (sort of like the check cashing places that like charge high fees and penalties) along with the money he ripped off by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare/Medicaid. There is a 20+ page summons re: Health and Human Services/FBI warrant. I'm going to try go get it in PDF format b/c I could only get screen shots of it as image files. I'll update when I got it.
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Newly Uploaded: 36 page (last page is blank) of the Jan 2020 - Anthony Todt Federal Affidavit - Summons/Warrant - Dept Health & Human Services Investigation into Medicare/Medicaid Fraudulent Billing
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- I couldn't find the report as a text-based PDF, so I screen shot each page and re-compiled into an image-based PDF. If anyone finds this as a text-based PDF please let me know.
 

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wyome said:
I think you are correct that the fraud charges and letting his license expire were the tipping points.

It bothers me that Megan was left alone with 3 children while her husband commuted back and forth from a practice in CT, and I wonder why she was on board with this. There's been a lot of speculation (affairs, gambling, etc). But the fact is we don't know what's accurate. Megan may have been aware of all this debt for all we know.

I do find it interesting that she home schooled. That's a pretty big commitment for a woman with "alleged medical issues" whose husband is home periodically at best. Florida's public schools are nothing to write home about (particularly in Central Florida -- better track record in South Florida) so I get why a couple would decide between private schooling vs. homeschooling.
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I think the wife must have been in the dark on the full details of financial and legal crisis. I have to think she was blind to it all, otherwise I would think most wives would discontinue homeschooling and find work to help with the household finances. Based on the location, and property values, the local school district had to be well funded and likely decent to very good. Her youngest child being 4 would not be school-aged, so she might have to have a sitter or daycare for her - but it is only 1 child, so not too bad. S still had her PT license, so she could have earned decent to good money -- and remember, this is Florida - land of retired people - who need and spend a lot of healthcare. I also read that she taught yoga classes, so even on the weekends, when Tody was home, she could have taught 2-3 classes and made several hundreds of dollars just in the yoga.

I know there was some reference to health condition, and that is what caused her to move to Florida, or at least that is what I've heard. Based on photos, she seemed active -- but let's says she could not do PT work b/c of this health condition -- She still could have done PT office related work, or other medical-related work, or a million other things.

Do we know why she did homeschooling? There is no mention of child having issues/special needs or any particular religous affiliation that was pro-homeschool. Do we know why or when she stopped working? Etc...
 
The False Claims Act (FCA) is pretty dense, so I found a summary review of it, and edited it to just give us a basic understanding of the penalties Tony was facing. The full text is cited and linked below.

Federal Penalties under False Claims Act [31 U.S.C. § § 3729-3733]
  • The civil FCA protects the Government from being overcharged or sold shoddy goods or services.
  • It is illegal to submit claims for payment to Medicare or Medicaid that you know or should know are false or fraudulent.
  • Filing false claims may result in fines of up to three times the programs' loss plus $11,000 per claim filed.
  • Under the civil FCA, each instance of an item or a service billed to Medicare or Medicaid counts as a claim, so fines can add up quickly.
  • There also is a criminal FCA (18 U.S.C. § 287).
    • Criminal penalties for submitting false claims include imprisonment and criminal fines.
    • Physicians have gone to prison for submitting false health care claims.
    • OIG also may impose administrative civil monetary penalties for false or fraudulent claims, as discussed below.
Content taken from/edited: Fraud & Abuse Laws | Physician Roadmap | Compliance | Office of Inspector General | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
 

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Newly Uploaded: 36 page (last page is blank) of the Jan 2020 - Anthony Todt Federal Affidavit - Summons/Warrant - Dept Health & Human Services Investigation into Medicare/Medicaid Fraudulent Billing
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- I couldn't find the report as a text-based PDF, so I screen shot each page and re-compiled into an image-based PDF. If anyone finds this as a text-based PDF please let me know.
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Will you add to the media thread please?

FL-Todt Family*MEDIA only*Megan, Alek, Tyler, & Zoe, in Celebration, 6 Jan 2020 *Tony arrested
 
Something not relevant, but I am surprised that this case has not gained traction or the public outcry like the Watts case. Maybe the difference is the strong presence of the Watts family on social media? Is society so numb now to those tragedies that it just notices those cases and goes on

ETA I could be mistaken:confused:
 
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whatsnext said:
Something not relevant, but I am surprised that this case has not gained traction or the public outcry like the Watts case. Maybe the difference is the strong presence of the Watts family on social media? Is society so numb now to those tragedies that it just notices those cases and goes on?
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I've noticed national attention online. I'm not all that jazzed about television news, so not sure about that part of it. Jmo
 
whatsnext said:
Something not relevant, but I am surprised that this case has not gained traction or the public outcry like the Watts case. Maybe the difference is the strong presence of the Watts family on social media? Is society so numb now to those tragedies that it just notices those cases and goes on

ETA I could be mistaken:confused:
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That's a great point. The only thing I can point to is the fact that Tony wasn't being interviewed pleading for his wife & kids to come home? That cringe-worthy interview with Watts added a whole new level of evil. But, you're so right. This case is almost ignored.
 
wyome said:
That's a great point. The only thing I can point to is the fact that Tony wasn't being interviewed pleading for his wife & kids to come home? That cringe-worthy interview with Watts added a whole new level of evil. But, you're so right. This case is almost ignored.
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They weren't really reported missing were they? Jmo
 
Hopefully I am allowed to comment here.
Has he had any arrest history with domestic violence.

Again sorry if this question is out of line, I have been attacked for asking questions before and want to be able to continue to be allowed to post in threads. thank you
 
rodneymullenmg said:
Hopefully I am allowed to comment here.
Has he had any arrest history with domestic violence.

Again sorry if this question is out of line, I have been attacked for asking questions before and want to be able to continue to be allowed to post in threads. thank you
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Hi rodney- I haven’t seen any previous DV arrests mentioned. I would think that would have been uncovered by now, but I could be wrong too!
 
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