WSLS Staff
Published: January 22, 2008

A 10 On Your Side Problem Solvers update to our power wheelchair investigation.

Bonnie Cowen was arrested for helping her husband, Michael Cowen, deveive people into buying power wheelchairs.

They worked with an Ohio-based company called Active Solutions.

The wheelchairs were billed to Medicare and Medicaid.

The federal agencies paid almost $26 million in claims to Active Solutions.

Cowen’s guilty plea could put her in prison for up to five years and she could also be fined up to $250,000.