Former Schuylkill County Employee Charged With Embezzling $452,186 (United...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania) HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former...
View ArticleSurgeries by unlicensed assistant part of $150m insurance fraud, say prosecutors
Physician assistant not trained to perform surgery operated on hundreds while surgeon billing for procedures hid massive insurance fraud conspiracy...
View ArticleFerretting out health care fraud in Florida and Detroit
The most successful Medicare Fraud Strike Force sent health care scammers scurrying all over the country — but hasn’t come close to running out of cases on its own turf. ......
View ArticleThe Latest: Prison sentences upheld in Kansas overdose case
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The latest developments in the re-sentencing of Kansas doctor and his wife who were convicted of running a moneymaking conspiracy at a clinic that prosecutors have linked to 68...
View ArticleFugitive who operated San Fernando Valley chiropractic clinic indicted
LOS ANGELES >> A federal grand jury has named a San Fernando Valley-based chiropractor in a 15-count indictment that accuses him of defrauding health care programs by submitting more than...
View ArticleBuffalo Man Sentenced For Wire Fraud (United States Attorney's Office for the...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York) CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX: (716) 551-3051 BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr....
View ArticleProminent South Florida activist admits $3.4M tax fraud
A tax accountant, who was a prominent and trusted activist for South Florida's Jamaican community, pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge Friday. Authorities said she ripped off Uncle Sam and...
View ArticleEast Texas Federal Grand Jury Indicts 12 in Medicare Fraud Scheme (United...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas) TYLER, Texas - Law enforcement officers in East Texas have arrested multiple individuals charged in a Medicare fraud scheme...
View ArticleEx-Army doctor in Texas gets prison for health care fraud
Ex-Army doctor in Texas gets prison for health care fraud EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A former Army surgeon in Texas has been sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison in a $7.3 million health care scam linked...
View ArticleHealth Care Plan Supervisor Submitted False Statements, Netted $184,000 in...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Pittsburgh Field Office) PITTSBURGH-An Armstrong County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud and health care fraud, United States...
View ArticleKentucky cardiologist pleads not guilty to health care fraud
ASHLAND, Ky. — A Kentucky cardiologist pleaded not guilty to all charges after being accused of performing unnecessary cardiac stent procedures on hundreds of patients. Dr. Richard E. Paulus was...
View ArticleMount Carmel Woman Charged with Health Care Fraud (Federal Bureau of...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Philadelphia Field Office) HARRISBURG, PN-The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Mount Carmel woman was...
View ArticleMount Carmel Woman Charged With Health Care Fraud (United States Attorney's...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania) HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Mount Carmel...
View ArticleNine cases of health care fraud brought in Western Pennsylvania
Since announcing the formation of a health care fraud unit in Western Pennsylvania a year ago, federal prosecutors have brought the following cases: ......
View ArticleHealth care fraud enforcement ramping up in Western Pa.
In Miami in June, federal prosecutors announced health care fraud charges against 73 people — 10 times the number charged for such crimes in Western Pennsylvania in any recent year. ......
View ArticleNews Blogger on Trial in Los Angeles Times Hack Downplays Damage
An acclaimed blogger charged in a hacking attack on the Los Angeles Times website is facing off against prosecutors who say he wreaked costly havoc on his former employer, Tribune Media Co., in revenge...
View ArticleHealth care premiums set to increase for some firms
It looks like one of the more innocuous provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act: Beginning Jan. 1, businesses with 51-100 employees will be grouped with smaller businesses for health coverage...
View ArticleSmall companies brace for jump in health care costs
It looks like one of the more innocuous provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act: Beginning Jan. 1, businesses with 51 to 100 employees will be grouped with smaller businesses for health coverage...
View ArticleVolkswagen faces major legal trouble in emissions scandal
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Who knew about the deception, when did they know it and who directed it? Those are among questions that state and federal investigators want answered as they plunge into the...
View Article'You idiots! What did you do?': Grand jury testimony in insurance fraud case...
Jennifer Milone woke up from shoulder surgery in excruciating pain. Her temperature spiked. Her wound swelled. After six weeks, she worried she had gangrene and returned to the clinic where she'd had...
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