SC AG Announces Man Charged with Stealing More Than $200k from Vulnerable Adult
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that his office’s Vulnerable Adults and Medicaid Provider Fraud unit (VAMPF) has arrested Keith C. Suber, 53 years old, of Eastover, SC, for…
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Fake Doctor Selling Unproven COVID-19 Cure Is Sentenced to 36 Months
A United States District Court Judge sentenced a Utah County man, who posed as a doctor, to three years’ imprisonment and one year of supervised release after he scammed consumers…
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Healthcare Fraud Defendant Gets Extended Sentence for Evading Prison
The former co-owner of a defunct medical testing company, who failed to report to prison as directed last spring, was sentenced to an additional six months in prison. Richard Reid,…
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Woman Sentenced to Prison and Ordered to Repay over $1.2M for Pandemic-Related Healthcare Fraud
US Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Melissa J. Watson, of Slidell, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Darrel J. Papillion to twelve months and one day in…
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Eye Practice Settles Allegations of False Claims and Kickbacks for $460,000
Burlington County Eye Physicians (BCEP), an ophthalmology practice with locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Dr. Gregory H. Scimeca, an ophthalmologist and the owner of BCEP, have agreed to…
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Precision Lens Agrees to Pay $12M to the United States for Kickbacks to Doctors in Violation of the FCA
Precision Lens and the estate of its former principal, Paul Ehlen, have agreed to pay the United States $12 million to resolve a case involving kickback payments to ophthalmic surgeons…
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Office of EMS Associate Director Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $4M from the Virginia DOH
A Midlothian man pled guilty to mail fraud, federal program theft, and tax evasion in connection with a scheme to misappropriate millions of dollars from the Virginia Department of Health…
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United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Erlinger Health System
The United States has filed a complaint against Murphy Medical Center, Inc. doing business as Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital and Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority doing business as Erlanger Health System…
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South Carolina Pharmacist Sentenced for Unlawfully Compounding Radioactive Drugs
Richard A. Sheriff, 73, of Easley, has pleaded guilty to adulteration of a drug and been sentenced to two years of probation. Sheriff also forfeited $166,000 in revenues. Evidence obtained…
Read More »Michigan Doctor Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Causing Patient’s Drug Overdose Death
Dr. Bernard Shelton, 67, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after being convicted at trial of a patient’s overdose death that resulted from his unlawful prescribing. He was…
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