India, Nov. 18 -- The mastermind of a massive healthcare fraud who looted $100 million from Medicare and Medicaid through false insurance claims has been found guilty by a federal jury.

After a two-week trial, Aleksandr Pikus was convicted on charges of money laundering, conspiring to rip off the federal government and conspiring to receive healthcare kickbacks.

The 44-year-old man from Brooklyn will be sentenced on April 8, 2020, the Department of Justice said.

According to evidence presented at trial, Pikus and his co-conspirators operated for nearly a decade a series of medical clinics in Brooklyn and Queens that submitted approximately $96 million in medical claims.

The clinics employed doctors, physical and occupational therapist...