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Justice Department officials have recommended joining a federal whistleblower lawsuit aimed at clawing back sponsorship money from former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, according to people familiar with the matter. The Justice Department has been weighing the...

An $11.4 million settlement resolved a whistleblower lawsuit against Victory Pharma, a specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in San Diego.  The company was accused of promoting its drugs by paying kickbacks to doctors to induce them to write more...

Partner Elaine Stromgren Florida-based American Sleep Medicine LLC has agreed to pay $15.3 million to settle allegations that it inappropriately billed government health care programs–  including Medicare, the Railroad Retirement Medicare Program, and the military...

A hard hitting story on WFTS TV, the ABC station in Tampa, exposed questionable practices in recruiting and job placement at the 2nd largest for-profit college company in the nation, Education Management Corporation, known as EDMC. The company is at the center of a...

WASHINGTON – The owner of several Detroit-area adult day care centers pleaded guilty today for her role in a $13.2 million psychotherapy fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for...

A report by federal health care inspectors in November said the U.S. nursing home industry overbills Medicare $1.5 billion a year for treatments patients don’t need or never receive. Not disclosed was how much worse it is when providers have a profit motive. Thirty...

Victory Pharma Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in San Diego, has agreed to pay $11,420,743 to resolve federal civil and criminal liability arising from its marketing of the pharmaceutical products Naprelan, Xodol, Fexmid and Dolgic, the Justice...

W.W. Grainger Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $70 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims under contracts with the General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Postal Services (USPS), the Department of Justice announced today....

ZURICH Dec 19 (Reuters) – Swiss bank UBS was hit with a $1.5 billion bill and admitted to fraud on Wednesday in order to settle charges of manipulating global benchmark interest rates. The penalty agreed with U.S., UK and Swiss regulators is more than three times the...

WASHINGTON — A Los Angeles-area church pastor pleaded guilty today to conspiring with doctors, the operators of fraudulent medical clinics, street-level patient recruiters and others to defraud Medicare of more than $11 million, announced Assistant Attorney General...