In one of the most memorable scenes from the beloved comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and Sir Bedivere (Terry Jones) encounter the mysterious Knights Who Say “Ni!” – soon to be known as the Knights Who Say “Ecky ecky ecky ecky pikang zoop boing goodem zu owly zhiv!”
We never learn too much about this roving band of oddly-tall Knights beyond the fact that they really love shrubberies. And now it turns out that they’ve been implicated in a major fraud case in Alaska.
As reported by The Alaska Beacon, the Alaska Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions just “filed seven criminal felony charges” against a company that is accused of “defrauding the state’s Medicaid system of more than $500,000.”
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The company’s name? The Knights of Ni LLC.
According to one investigator, the company’s owner, Ryan Carroll, “operated as a care coordinator,” a role that is intended help Medicaid patients get “needed medical, social and other services, regardless of the funding source for the services to which access is granted.”
As the criminal complaint noted, someone contacted the Department of Health and informed them that Carroll “was having an inappropriate relationship with one of his… clients.” The ensuing investigation found that Carroll had been “documenting that he was providing monthly care coordination contacts to more than one client on the same date, time, but at different locations.” And “there was a total of $519,855.73 worth of claims between 2018 and 2022 that did not have sufficient documentation.”
In hindsight, you’d think that the company being named after a movie that also features killer bunny rabbits and catapults armed with cows would have raised suspicion sooner. Would anyone entrust matters of health care to, say, Your Mother Was a Hamster and Your Father Smelt of Elderberries LLC?
As Michael Palin once explained, the inspiration for the Knights Who Say “Ni” came from his sixth form teacher who would inadvertently say “ni” while combing through the shelves of the school history library wearing “tight trousers.”
Palin thought it would be funny to marry the teacher’s silly noise with a group of “very threatening, evil-looking people.”
Palin met the teacher years later, and he fully “endorsed” the movie’s use of his accidental catchphrase. Although it’s unclear how he would feel about alleged fraudsters adopting it.
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