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April 10, 2012 | Posted By: Sean Estes
A 30-year-old Chinese woman was sentenced to death by a court in Wenzhou for “cheating” investors of 100.11 million yuan ($16 million) losing 94 million yuan in futures and gold trading, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. The death sentence for Wang Caiping – who must first serve two years in prison – came days […]
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April 10, 2012 | Posted By: Sean Estes
Chris Hoyer – Senior Partner Chris Hoyer is well known for his years as a federal and state prosecutor and civil litigator, but what many don’t know is that he’s also a cutting edge software designer. That lesser known talent of the James Hoyer Law Firm Founding Partner is being touted on the national stage […]
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Months after U.S. senators requested financial documents in an investigation of how medical lab and insurance companies bill customers, LabCorp is the only company that hasn’t provided information to the Senate. The inquiry is aimed at what’s termed as “pull-through” plans, which allegedly provide deep discounts on lab testing to insurance companies in exchange for their network […]
Learn MoreApril 05, 2012 | Posted By: Sean Estes
Father and Daughter Sentenced for Lying to SEC Defendants Convicted of Obstructing SEC Investigation OAKLAND, CA—For conspiring to obstruct an investigation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nasser V. Hamedani and Sholeh A. Hamedani were sentenced yesterday to 25 months and 20 months, respectively, in prison, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. They were also […]
Learn MoreApril 04, 2012 | Posted By: Sean Estes
WOBURN, Mass. (Legal Newsline) – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a $20 million settlement on Friday with Calloway Laboratories resolving allegations that the medical testing company gave unnecessary urine drug tests. Calloway Laboratories Inc., Arthur Levitan, the company’s chief executive officer, Patrick Cavanaugh, its chief operating officer, and two employees of a sober house […]
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WASHINGTON – A Miami-area resident pleaded guilty today for his role in structuring monetary transactions to provide cash for the furtherance of a fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services […]
Learn MoreMarch 29, 2012 | Posted By: Sean Estes
Universal Health Services Inc. (UHS) and two subsidiaries have reached a settlement in a False Claims Act lawsuit with the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Justice Department announced today. Under the settlement, UHS and its subsidiaries, Keystone Education and Youth Services LLC and Keystone Marion LLC, which did business as the […]
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WASHINGTON – A Detroit-area doctor of podiatric medicine was sentenced today to one year in prison for a fraud scheme involving false billings to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Errol Sherman was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen in Detroit. […]
Learn MoreMarch 27, 2012 | Posted By: Sean Estes
A successful settlement in a whistle-blower case against health insurance company WellCare is now final. It will result in a $137.5 million payment to the federal government. The James Hoyer Law Firm represented one of four whistle-blowers in the case. James Hoyer client Clark Bolton was Supervisor of WellCare’s Special Investigations Unit and came forward […]
Learn MoreMarch 23, 2012 | Posted By: Sean Estes
WASHINGTON – EUSA Pharma (USA) Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $180,000 to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by allegedly encouraging doctors to submit inflated claims to Medicare for imaging scans, the Justice Department announced today. EUSA Pharma (USA) is headquartered in Langhorne, Pa. The United States alleged that […]
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WASHINGTON – Lockheed Martin Corporation has agreed to pay $15,850,000 to settle allegations that it mischarged perishable tools used on numerous government contracts, the Department of Justice announced today. Lockheed Martin, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., is one of the world’s largest defense contractors. Today’s settlement resolves allegations that the government was overcharged as a result […]
Learn MoreMarch 22, 2012 | Posted By: Sean Estes
Harbert Corporation, Harbert International, Inc., Bill Harbert International Constructions Inc., Harbert Construction Services (U.K.) Ltd. and Bilhar International Establishment have agreed to pay the United States $47 million to settle claims that they submitted false claims, and caused others to submit false claims, to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Justice Department announced […]
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