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Ann Sonderman Giles, 56, and Lu Anne Wallace, 66, both of Lexington, pled guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States. According to their plea agreements, from January 2014 through…

A Portland home healthcare company and its owner have agreed to pay $111,200.46 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act. The civil settlement agreement with the United…

The United States filed a civil complaint to recover more than $543,000 from individuals based in China who purported to sell face masks and N-95 respirators at inflated prices but…

A Macomb County hearing aid dealer pleaded guilty in federal court in Detroit on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Healthcare Fraud. This follows the conviction on the same charge on…

Peter Lucas, 35, of Reno, pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of surgical masks from a supply cart at the Ioannis A. Lougaris VA Medical Center in Reno. According to court…

Lane Hamblin (40, of Spanish Fort) was sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading guilty to obtaining hydrocodone using forged prescriptions. Prior to her arrest in this case, Hamblin worked…

A Chinese manufacturer was charged with producing and exporting to the United States in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly half a million misbranded and defective masks that falsely…

Anchorage-based Alaska Neurology Center LLC and its owner, Franklin Ellenson, M.D., have agreed to pay $2 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the medical practice knowingly submitted false…

Kyle D. McLean, 36, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, admitted his role in a scheme to defraud the Medicare Program in connection with fraudulent orders for genetic tests. McLean and certain…

William Britt Harvey, 45, of Lecompte, Louisiana, was sentenced to serve two years in federal prison and three years of supervised release following his prison term for stealing over $100,000…