Once imprisoned for Medicare fraud, Miami operator charged again
Of the thousands of people charged with Medicare fraud in Miami, only a handful would qualify as repeat offenders. Meet one of them, Vicente Gonzalez Acosta. A decade ago, Gonzalez…
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Seattle woman’s, brother speaks out after hidden camera nursing home rape arrest
KIRO 7 first told you earlier in July that prosecutors had charged 29-year-old nursing assistant, Nshimiyiana Hamzat, with second-degree rape after they said he was captured on hidden camera repeatedly…
Read More »Lawsuit claims Georgia nursing home resident burned by cigarette by aide
A lawsuit has been filed in Fulton County against an area assisted living and its owner, claiming an assistant nurse at the Hapeville Manor Nursing Home intentionally burned an elderly…
Read More »Daughter Claims Mother Is Being Abused at OKC Nursing Home
A woman says an Oklahoma City nursing home licensed to the City of Pauls Valley is abusing her mother and now, she’s calling on Governor Kevin Stitt to investigate the…
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Anchorage Doctor Pleads Guilty for Prescribing Medically Unnecessary Opioids
Anchorage, Alaska — Michael Don Robertson, 67, an Anchorage physician, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit controlled substance fraud and one count of healthcare fraud. Robertson knowingly…
Read More »Telemarketer and His Companies Agree to Pay $2.5 Million to Settle Allegations
United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez and U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey for the Eastern District of Tennessee announce that Scott Roix, together with several entities through which he ran…
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Louisville Chiropractic Scheme in $5m Fraudulent Insurance Case
Louisville, Ky. — U.S. District Judge Rebecca G. Jennings has sentenced defendants of a healthcare fraud scheme that billed insurance companies for services never performed to years in federal prison….
Read More »Davenport Surgeon Pays $2.23m in Healthcare Fraud Claims Case
Tampa, FL — United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Dr. Irfan Siddiqui and his vascular surgery practice, Heart and Vascular Institute of Florida (HAVI), have agreed to pay…
Read More »Palm Beach Sales Representative Sentenced to Prison for Money Laundering
A top sales representative was sentenced to prison for his participation in a money laundering conspiracy involving alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers and clinical laboratories. Lanny Fried, 41, of…
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