Allegations Include Off-label Marketing and Kickbacks to Doctors and Pharmacists WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—November 4, 2013. Global health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from allegations relating to the prescription drugs Risperdal, Invega and Natrecor, including promotion[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 1, 2013. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved a settlement agreement today between the United States and the APCO Liquidating Trust (a successor in interest to APCO Oil Corporation).  The settlement follows seven years of litigation concerning the APCO Liquidating Trust’s liability under the[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 1, 2013. Oneike Mickhale Barnett pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Ft. Lauderdale to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the Justice Department, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and U.S.[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 1, 2013. The owner of a Louisiana medical equipment supply company and a marketer who worked for the company have been indicted for allegedly engaging in a $3 million Medicare fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Special Agent in Charge[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. The Justice Department announced a settlement today with the Warren County, N.C. , Board of Education that resolves a lawsuit the department filed on behalf of Army Reserve soldier Dwayne Coffer under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). The settlement, which[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag for the Northern District of California announced that Noemi Rubio Baez, of Salinas, Calif., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to file false claims for tax refunds with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. Vernon Harrison, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to serve 111 months in prison and three years supervised release, along with an order to pay $82,791 restitution, for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme , announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. Vladimir Kats, 41, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.  The charges stem from his role in running Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 31, 2013. A federal jury in Houston has convicted Gwendolyn Climmons-Johnson, 53, of multiple counts of health care fraud for submitting false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for ambulance services. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 30, 2013. The government has intervened in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act against United States Investigations Services LLC (USIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, the Department of Justice announced today.  The lawsuit alleges that USIS, located in Falls Church,[Read More…]