Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 8, 2014. The United States has filed two complaints under the False Claims Act against Michigan neurosurgeon Dr. Aria Sabit, spinal implant company Reliance Medical Systems, two Reliance distributorships—Apex Medical Technologies and Kronos Spinal Technologies—and the companies’ owners, Brett Berry, John Hoffman and Adam Pike, the Justice Department[Read More…]
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Owner of Home Heath Care Company Sentenced to 75 Months in Prison for $6.5 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 8, 2014. The owner and operator of a Miami home health care company was sentenced to 75 months in prison today for her participation in a $6.5 million Medicare fraud scheme involving the now defunct home health care company, Nestor’s Health Services Inc. (Nestor Home Health). Assistant Attorney[Read More…]
Federal Court Bars Southern California Man from Promoting Alleged Tax Scheme
Southern California Man Allegedly Marketed Welfare Benefit Plans That Unlawfully Increased Tax Deductions and Avoided Income Taxes Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 5, 2014. A federal court has permanently barred a Rancho Santa Margarita, California, man from promoting and selling an alleged nationwide tax scheme that involved using welfare benefit plans to unlawfully[Read More…]
Caribbean-Based Investment Advisor Sentenced for Using Offshore Accounts to Launder and Conceal Funds
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 5, 2014. Joshua Vandyk, an investment advisor, was sentenced today to serve 30 months in prison for conspiring to launder monetary instruments, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Vandyk, a U.S. citizen, and Eric St-Cyr and Patrick Poulin, Canadian citizens, were indicted by a grand jury[Read More…]
Two Companies to Pay $3.75 Million for Allegedly Causing Submission of Claims for Unreasonable or Unnecessary Rehabilitation Therapy at Skilled Nursing Facilities
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 5, 2014. Life Care Services LLC (LCS), a manager of skilled nursing facilities based in Des Moines, Iowa, and CoreCare V LLP, doing business as ParkVista, a skilled nursing facility in Fullerton, California, have agreed to pay a total of $3.75 million to the government for causing the[Read More…]
Google to Refund Consumers at Least $19 Million to Settle FTC Complaint It Unlawfully Billed Parents for Children’s Unauthorized In-App Charges
FTC Order Requires Google to Change its Mobile App Billing Practices to Ensure Consumers’ Consent is Obtained Before Charges Levied Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 5, 2014. Google Inc. has agreed to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that it unfairly billed consumers for millions of dollars in unauthorized charges incurred by[Read More…]
Georgia ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Convicted of Filing False Liens Against Federal Officials
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 5, 2014. A federal jury in Omaha, Nebraska, found a Pelham, Georgia, man guilty late yesterday of seven counts of conspiracy to file and filing false liens against two U.S. District Court judges, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska, two Assistant U.S. Attorneys and an Internal[Read More…]
New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty to Operating Fraudulent Visa and Payroll Scheme to Facilitate Illegal Immigration
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to orchestrating an eight-year scheme to falsify employment certifications to facilitate the illegal entry of Indian immigrants into the United States and to filing a false tax return. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal[Read More…]
New England Compounding Center Supervising Pharmacist Arrested at Logan International Airport
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. A Canton, Massachusetts, man was arrested today at Boston’s Logan International Airport in connection with the ongoing criminal investigation of New England Compounding Center (NECC) by the Justice Department’s Civil Division and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Glenn Adam Chin, 46, was attempting to board a plane to Hong Kong[Read More…]
United States Settles with Costco to Cut Ozone-Depleting and Greenhouse Gas Refrigerant Emissions Nationwide
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Costco Wholesale Corporation, one of the nation’s largest retailers, has agreed to cut its emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases from leaking refrigeration equipment at more than half of its stores nationwide. In the settlement announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department[Read More…]
