The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico posted the following news release on April 20, 2023:. The Department of Justice today announced criminal charges against 18 defendants in nine federal districts across the United States for their alleged participation in various fraud schemes involving health care services that exploited the…
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Apr. 19— The amount of money Maine seniors lost to fraud increased nearly five times in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to two recent FBI reports. The losses in Maine match a rising national trend, according to the reports. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCormak, the elder fraud coordinator for the U.S. Department of Justice in Maine, said Tuesday…
Department of Labor to appeal decision striking down portion of rollover guidance
The Department of Labor filed a notice of appeal Friday from a February federal court ruling striking down a portion of guidance issued in 2021 that expanded the definition of a retirement plan fiduciary.
Karl Hampton, 65, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, convinced the 85- year-old woman he was her son and would“ care for her personally and financially” between 2018 and 2020, according to officials. Karl Hampton was found guilty of 12 felony counts in connection with the fraud scheme, which also involved his wife, the U.S. Attorney’ s Office for the Middle District of…
Two of Wildwood's three commissioners are under indictment on charges of fraudulently receiving state health benefits, including Mayor Pete Byron, who also pleaded guilty in federal court to tax fraud in March and is awaiting sentencing. Byron and Commissioner Steve Mikulski are refusing to resign. The residents were there not to bury Mayor Pete Byron, 67, a…
Five defendants were arraigned today on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found…
Luis Burgos, 50, owner of B&R Private Security LLC, and his former business partner, Sohan Singh, 57, are accused by The Central Valley Workers’ Compensation Fraud Task Force of underreporting employee payroll by over $1.6 million. But a forensic audit found that B&R Private Security LLC actually had over $1.8 million in employee payroll for the same time period,…
Has the Federal Reserve tamed the inflation beast?
There were some promising signs in new numbers contained in the government’s Consumer Price Index report for March released this week. Prices are still going up, but it was the smallest increase in more than two years.
The main arena is a Cole County courtroom, where the Missouri State Employees Retirement System accuses Ontario- based Catalyst Capital Group Inc. of mismanaging $175 million entrusted to its care. A side arena is the General Assembly, where the agency known best as MOSERS must maintain confidence in its management of the state's pension fund, valued at $8.4…
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ months-long battle to extend her freedom is over: A federal court judge on Tuesday denied her bid to delay imprisonment, ruling she must surrender April 27 to serve her sentence for felony fraud at a Texas prison camp. The U.S. Marshals Service will determine whether Holmes must show up at the prison’ s gates or meet federal…
His brother, Alexander Blaise, 41, of Plantation, Florida, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison. According to court documents, Dumarsais Blaise and Alexander Blaise worked together to submit fraudulent PPP applications. Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Markenzy…
LOS ANGELES — A California Department of Insurance-led investigation with assistance from the California Department of Justice has resulted in…
A federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, returned an indictment unsealed today charging a Maryland businessman with filing false income tax returns, theft of government funds, tax evasion, willful failure to file income tax returns and bank fraud. According to the indictment, Orin Wayne Solomon of Glenn Dale, filed at least 15 false income tax returns…
PROVIDENCE, R.I.– A registered nurse and nurse practitioner, who defrauded commercial health insurers and Medicare of nearly $12 million by devising and executing fraudulent billing schemes in three states seeking payment for patient services that were never performed, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney…
Gregory Magedman, a formerly licensed insurance agent, was charged in Orange County Superior Court with one felony count of grand theft by embezzlement after he allegedly secured insurance for a consumer and failed to give the payment to the insurance company, the California Department of Insurance said in a news release. In November 2011, Magedman, 77, was…
Michael Pepper was sentenced to three years of probation Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Pepper, who was living in Northfield at the time charges were brought against him, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health benefits fraud before U.S. District Court Judge Robert B. Kugler in August 2017. Under local pharmaceutical salesman William Hickman,…
The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, Dena J. King, issued the following news release on April 6, 2023:. United States District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Mac Wayne Billings, 49, of Raleigh, N.C. to 41 months in prison for defrauding investors in his company Alpha Finance Company of at least $1.3 million, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney…
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans, issued the following news release on April 6, 2023:. LANCE M. VALLO, age 38 and a resident of Gueydan, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering before U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche-Milazzo,…
Imprisoned reality TV housewife Jen Shah owes her lawyer more than $124,000 in unpaid legal fees in a case about her involvement in a fraud scam, according to court papers filed Thursday. Shah, 49, of Park City, Utah, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in July, and was sentenced on Jan. 6 to 6 1/ 2 years in prison. Shah joined the telemarketing operation in…
The deal, if approved by a judge, would resolve a 2018 lawsuit city residents Mark Schraner and Mari Carr filed against the city and its former collection firm, Northeast Revenue Service, that alleged the penalties, interest and costs were more than state law allows. The settlement includes all residents who paid penalties, interest and costs issued against…
