News from January 2019
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Jan. 28, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today selected three highly-qualified individuals for senior leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Perdue named Dr. Mindy Brashears as Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, Naomi Earp as Deputy ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A 10-count indictment unsealed today in the Western District of Washington State charges Huawei Device Co., Ltd. and Huawei Device Co. USA with theft of trade secrets conspiracy, attempted theft of trade secrets, seven counts of wire fraud, and one count of obstruction of justice. The indictment, returned ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Huawei Device USA Inc. and Huawei’s Iranian Subsidiary Skycom Also Named Defendants Other Charges Include Money Laundering, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Obstruction of Justice and Sanctions Violations A 13-count indictment was unsealed earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: The indictment charges Johnny and Maria Moore, from the District of Columbia, along with Charese Johnson, aka Charese Adesalu, from Aberdeen, Maryland, with conspiring to defraud the United States in an effort to obtain fraudulent refunds from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The indictment also charges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A Minneapolis based tax return preparer was sentenced to serve 121 months in prison today for managing and directing a fraudulent return-preparation business, Primetime Tax Services Inc. (Primetime), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A commodities trader at an Australian proprietary trading firm (Trading Firm A) pleaded guilty on Dec. 26, 2018 to spoofing in connection with his fraudulent and deceptive trading activity in the E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A Miami, Florida woman was sentenced to 46 months in prison on Jan. 3 for her role in a $1.36 million health care fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida, Special ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: The owner and operator of a purported medical clinic, QC Medical Clinic, was convicted on Jan. 24, by a federal jury of participating in an $11 million Medicare fraud scheme in which fraudulent medical documents were sold to home-health agencies in and around Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: The former chief executive officer of a now-bankrupt public air charter operator was sentenced to 94 months in prison on Jan. 11 for her role in a scheme to steal millions of dollars in passenger money for future travel from an escrow account, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced that on Dec. 28, 2018 Los Angeles-based Avanti Hospitals LLC (Avanti) and six of its owners will pay the federal government $8.1 million to settle claims that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting, or causing Avanti’s subsidiary, Memorial Hospital of Gardena ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Brett Palkowitsch, 31, an officer with the St. Paul Police Department, was indicted on Jan. 16 by a federal grand jury in Minneapolis for using excessive force against an arrestee, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and FBI Minneapolis Special Agent in Charge Jill Sanborn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A Chicago, Illinois-based clinical psychologist was charged in an indictment filed on Jan. 3, for his participation in a health care fraud scheme involving approximately $3.2 million in allegedly fraudulent claims billed to Medicare for psychological counseling and psychological testing for severely mentally disabled adults that was never actually performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: On Dec. 11, a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Missouri returned a six-count indictment against a woman for assaulting her infant child while living in military housing in Germany and for obstructing justice and making false statements during the course of the subsequent federal investigation. Baillie ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: The former chief executive officer and senior vice president of Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL), a Barbados-based insurance company, were charged in an indictment unsealed on Jan. 18, with laundering bribes to the former Minister of Industry of Barbados in exchange for his assistance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: On Jan. 8, a federal grand jury sitting in the Middle District of Florida returned an indictment charging a U.S. Navy Captain with obstruction of justice, concealment, falsifying records, and false statements during the investigation of the death of a civilian at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (“GTMO”) in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A California doctor was sentenced to 42 months in prison on Jan. 22 for his role in a Medicare kickback conspiracy involving a Los Angeles-area home health agency. Kanagasabai Kanakeswaran, M.D., 65, of Lancaster, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of the Central District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A federal jury found a South Florida pharmacist guilty of health care fraud for his role in a massive compounding pharmacy fraud scheme, which impacted private insurance companies, Medicare and TRICARE. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A woman from Miami, Florida was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Jan. 15 for her role in a $750,000 health care fraud scheme involving six Miami-area home health agencies, Sunshine Home Health Services Inc., Empire Home Health Agency Inc., A&C Home Health Care Inc., Healthylife Home Car, Humanity ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A woman from Miami, Florida was sentenced to 51 months in prison on Jan. 17 for her role in a $4.66 million health care fraud scheme involving several Miami-area home health agencies, including Sunshine Home Health Services Inc., Empire Home Health Agency Inc., Mildred & Marce Home Health Care Services ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A clinic owner and operator was sentenced to 360 months in prison on Jan. 24 for her role in a scheme to defraud Medicare out of payments for medical services. Ann Shepherd was convicted at trial in the Southern District of Texas along with her co-defendants, Dr. John Ramirez and Yvette Nwoko. Assistant ...
