A prominent Pakistani-American businessman who spent years cozying up to powerful Democrats stands accused of being part of a $38 million Medicaid scam.

Civic leader and well-known Brooklyn Community Board 13 member Pervez Siddiqui, 78, was arrested Monday along with seven co-conspirators.

They are alleged to have run a large-scale Medicaid kickback and false-billing scheme through two Social Adult Day Care (SADC) centers in Brooklyn: APNA Adult Daycare and Ashiana Social Adult Daycare.

The scam ran from 2019 through December 2025, feds allege, with seniors being signed up for daycares they rarely or never attended, then getting a cut of the Medicaid payment.

“Marketers are going around looking for the Medicaid card. They stop people on the street, at bus stops. They go into doctor’s offices. They go into NYCHA [government housing] where they know people are low income. They ask, ‘do you have a Medicaid card?” a source with knowledge of the investigation told The Post.

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