Rather than lounging around a multi-million-dollar home in designer clothes and lavish jewelry, they are in jumpsuits in spartan cells – sporting handcuffs and ankle shackles for court appearances Incarcerated since mid-June, a former Scottsdale glam couple faces life imprisonment – and what the government calls a staggering “weight of evidence.” September saw a flurry of legal activity – including attorneys being fired and hired – in the case of jet-setting Scottsdale couple Alexandra Gehrke, 38, and Jeff King, 49. The medical entrepreneur who dressed like a fashion model and DJ with a taste for expensive watches and fast cars are in separate cells at Florence Correctional Center, 60 miles from their $5.
7 million Scottsdale home. Four months after they married in a glitzy ceremony, the two were handcuffed as they attempted to board a plane to France June 17. The government charged the high-end couple with preying on elderly Medicare patients – at times having pricey bandages forced on unwilling invalids as they lay in their deathbeds.
Gehrke – known to friends and associates as “Lexie” – and King allegedly filed $900 million in fraudulent claims, pocketing $330 million “in illegal kickbacks as a result of their fraudulent scheme,” according to charging documents. In addition to property and high-end cars, the government seized $60 million in cash – adding the two “have access to potentially tens of millions of dollars” in cryptocurrency and hi.