News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Carrie Caporino, 45, of Scarborough, Maine, was arrested on Tuesday and charged in U.S. District Court by criminal complaint with embezzling from a health care benefit program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In the largest-ever health care fraud enforcement action by federal authorities, 14 defendants - including doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals - have been charged in the Central District of California for allegedly participating in health care fraud and drug diversion schemes that caused approximately $147 million in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Today three indictments charging 24 defendants in schemes intended to divert pharmaceutical pills to the streets were unsealed, announced Stephen G. Azzam, Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s New Orleans Field Division which oversees DEA’s Little Rock District Office, and Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM Associate Principal Deputy Secretary for Field Operations Stacy Charboneau toured the Savannah River Site (SRS) in late June. In a visit to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), Tom Burns, vice president for contractor Parsons and SWPF deputy project manager, briefed Charboneau and SRS Manager Jack Craig on testing and commissioning of the facility, which is on schedule to begin radioactive operations at the end of 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: The 2018 CJS Appropriations bill fails to fund priorities critical to communities, including the COPS hiring program, economic development investments, legal representation for low-income Americans, and climate research, while including divisive riders relating to firearms and U.S. policy toward Cuba.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a hearing to review the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) policies governing the acquisition of land into trust for Indian tribes. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (IRA) delegates broad authority to the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land in trust for Indians.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has found Duane Crithfield (70, Asheville, North Carolina) and Stephen P. Donaldson, Sr. (71, Tampa) guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of willfully aiding the submission of a false and fraudulent income...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has returned separate indictments charging two central Ohio health care companies and the people who own them with health care fraud. One company allegedly billed government insurance programs for unnecessary medical procedures and the other is accused of billing government insurance programs for pain and scar creams that recipients said they never requested or wanted.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Aurora, Mo., business owner has been indicted by a federal grand jury today for fraud schemes by which he stole more than $26 million, as well as money laundering and other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, the Department of Justice released a redacted copy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s application for a security clearance in response to a lawsuit filed by watchdog group American Oversight. The form asks if Sessions “had any contact with a foreign government, its establishment. . or its representatives, whether inside or outside the U.S."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DONALD EALY, a/k/a “Deebo," age 38, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: 36-Count Indictment Filed Simultaneously with Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement after Senate Republicans made public the new version of Trumpcare...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: As part of the largest coordinated Health Care Fraud enforcement action to date, Federal and state authorities arrested two Austin psychologists who own and operate Psychological A.R.T.S., P.C., announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Aurora, Mo., business owner has been indicted by a federal grand jury today for fraud schemes by which he stole more than $26 million, as well as money laundering and other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - As part of the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action in Department of Justice History, a Richmond woman has been charged with healthcare fraud, aggravated identity theft, and making a false statement to federal agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes man was sentenced today to four years and nine months in federal prison for a gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Fred Wallace Hammon, Jr., 36, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Several Chicago-area medical professionals, including two licensed physicians, are facing federal criminal charges as part of the largest health care fraud enforcement action in Department of Justice history, federal authorities announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement on the 2017 Medicare Trustees Report and 2017 Social Security Trustees Report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that two doctors who have operated a medical practice in Norwalk have been charged by federal criminal complaint with writing prescriptions outside the scope of legitimate medical practice, health care fraud and money laundering.
