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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...

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...

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”...

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...

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.,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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....