A Contra Costa health care CEO who is being charged with alleged fraud was arrested in San Francisco while trying to board a flight to Africa, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Antioch resident Cashmir Chinedu Luke, who is in his 60s, tried to board a flight at San Francisco International Airport but was foiled by federal agents before he could fly to Nigeria, the DOJ said Wednesday.

Luke is accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $7 million in payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for services that were never actually rendered, prosecutors said. In some cases, the "care" purportedly rendered to veterans happened weeks after they were already dead.

Luke is CEO of Four Corners Health, which provided unskilled in-home nursing and day-to-day care for elderly vets. Fo

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