Troubled AeroVanti founder faces new civil allegations in Medicare fraud case

Patrick Britton-Harr, the founder of a membership-based private air service company based partially in Sarasota that’s grappling with a bevy of lawsuits and fraud allegations, is facing new legal troubles: The U.S. Department of Justice, through the FBI’s Baltimore field office, filed a civil complaint July 18 alleging he submitted “claims to Medicare for laboratory tests that were not ordered by health care providers, not medically necessary and sometimes never performed.”