The Department of Justice Department won’t criminally charge former executives of The Scooter Store, the now-defunct national power mobility provider known for its television commercials, according to
Coverage from the San Antonio Express News reported than agency spokesperson Peter Carr said the agency didn’t have enough to build a strong case.
“Based on the results of a five-year investigation … the Justice Department does not believe it has sufficient evidence to prove criminal liability beyond a reasonable doubt as to senior managers at The Scooter Store,” Carr told the paper in an email.
The news comes more than three years after federal and state authorities executed a search warrant at the Scooter Store’s New Braunfels, Texas headquarters to investigate the Scooter Store’s funding and business practice. In February, 2013, roughly 150 law enforcement officials from the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General, and the Texas attorney general’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit were part of the search for evidence of wrongdoing.
The investigation ultimately lead to Scooter Store filing chapter 11 and ultimately shuttering its business. In Jan 2014, Medicare said it would pay for repairs to Scooter Store mobility devices, but then proved reticent to follow-through on that offer, leading to confusion among the Scooter Store’s former customers.