The charge stems from a Medicaid fraud investigation into Michael Mastronardi, who authorities said was billing for time spent assisting an aging uncle when he was actually working at the Greenwich Police Department. State Medicaid fraud investigators alleged Mastronardi used his elderly uncle to claim $50,000 in fraudulent wages from Medicaid.
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According to the SEC's complaint, from approximately January 2018 until at least March 2023, Kapoor and certain of the defendant entities solicited investors by, among other things, making several material misrepresentations and omissions regarding Kapoor, Location Ventures, Urbin, and their real estate developments. The false statements allegedly…
The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance recently released a list of administrative actions for December. The actions are…
Deadline passes with over 19k comments on DOL fiduciary rule proposal
The Department of Labor wrapped up a relatively quick comment period Tuesday on its controversial fiduciary rule. Critics called on the DOL to withdraw the rule.
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ– In a release from the United States Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey, Christine Myers, a resident of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was sentenced December 18, 2023 to 12 months and one day in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud public and private health benefits programs of at least $8.8 million for the billing of medically unnecessary…
John Arthur Hanratty, a 49- year-old New York- licensed attorney who lived in Rye until 2019 before moving to San Juan, Puerto Rico, was arrested on fraud charges in connection with a scheme to steal money from a bank for his investment firm, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said. Between 2017 and 2021, Hanratty, licensed to practice law…
PUBLISHED: December 27, 2023 at 11:53 a.m.| UPDATED: December 27, 2023 at 3:02 p.m.. Maryland's bar counsel, which investigates wrongdoing by attorneys, has moved to suspend former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's law license. Thomas M. DeGonia, the state's recently appointed bar counsel, cited Mosby's November perjury convictions in a petition…
NAIC ‘greatly disappointed’ in DOL diss of state annuity sales rules
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners reminded the DOL that states have the right to regulate insurance and the fiduciary rule is a bad fit.
The SEC is accusing him and his real estate investment company, ArciTerra, with fraud in what it called a $35 million scheme. "ArciTerra Companies LLC and its CEO, Jonathan M. Larmore, in a multi-year scheme to misappropriate millions of dollars of investor funds from investment vehicles that ArciTerra managed," the SEC stated in a news release.
DOL fiduciary rule comments number 14,000+ as opposing views harden
Federal regulators are releasing a steady trickle of the more than 14,000 public comments on the Department of Labor’s contentious fiduciary rule proposal.
In the Vatican, as in Italy, prosecutors can appeal verdicts at the same time as defendants. In this case, Diddi filed a three-page motion on Dec. 19 asking the Vatican appeals court to convict each defendant for the full set of charges that he originally laid out, even though the tribunal ruled that many of the alleged crimes simply didn’ t occur.
RALEIGH, N.C.— A Nash County woman has been charged by the N.C. Department of Insurance with felony insurance fraud and felony attempting to obtain property by false pretense. According to the arrest warrant, Windolyn Annjeannett Turner, 55, of Middlesex, gave false statements to State National Insurance Company concerning a car accident on Feb. 11, 2022,…
"George Iakovou's financial scheme and lies harmed people, causing irreparable damage to his victims," U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary said in a news release. "George Iakovou's greed will have an everlasting effect on the victims he defrauded," Resident Agent in Charge Clint Bush of the U.S. Secret Service's Albany Resident Office said. " According to court documents, in…
Illinois court rejects federal ruling in freeing insurers from privacy coverage
A state appellate court sided with two insurers Tuesday, ruling that they are not responsible for part of a $19 million settlement in a biometric privacy case.
WOODBRIDGE, NJ— A physician from Colonia, and the manager of his Perth Amboy medical office, are now charged with conspiracy to defraud a patient's insurance company, reportedly to conceal the doctor's other alleged crimes. Gurvindra Sinh Johal, 56, affiliated with Amboy Urgent Care in Perth Amboy, and his office manager Rani Patel, 32, of Carteret, were slapped…
The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023:. The former co-owners of a New Jersey marketing company were each sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for their roles in a scheme to defraud public and private health benefits programs of at least $8.8 million for the billing of medically…
The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Philip R. Sellinger, issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2023:. A Maryland man was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for illegally obtaining more than $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. -U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.
The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release:. "Dr. Oladipo is no longer just one of the top prescribers of highly addictive opioids in Massachusetts– he is now a convicted felon–for cheating federally funded health care programs, taxpayers, and patients, for work he did not do," said Jodi Cohen, Special Agent in…
What’s next for the Department of Labor fiduciary rule proposal?
Now that the Department of Labor’s two-day public hearing is over, Jan. 2 is the next big date for its controversial fiduciary rule proposal.
Scott Solomon, 37, of Albany, was the former owner of popular Saratoga Saratoga Springs restaurants Siro's, near Saratoga Race Course, and Pig' N Whistle restaurant, which was briefly open on Broadway. U.S. Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Special Agent in Charge Craig L. Tremaroli, of the FBI' s Albany Field Office, made the announcement about Solomon's case Monday.
