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WASHINGTON – Three Detroit-area clinic owners pleaded guilty today for their participation in a Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Karina Hernandez, 28, Marieva Briceno, 46, and...

WASHINGTON – The owner and operator of a Broward County, Fla.-area halfway house was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in a Medicare fraud kickback scheme that funneled patients through a fraudulent mental health company, announced the Department of...

Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., have rejected a roughly $1 billion proposed settlement to resolve allegations that Johnson & Johnson promoted the antipsychotic drug Risperdal for unapproved uses, according to people familiar with the matter. J&J and...

Jillian Estes - Associate Congratulations to James Hoyer Law Firm Associate Jillian Estes.  She is the winner of this year’s Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Young Lawyer Award  in Florida’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Jillian successfully represented a father from...

A former Pfizer oncology director has been given a green light by a federal judge to pursue a whistleblower lawsuit against the drugmaker over claims that allegedly ‘dirty data’ was being hidden from the FDA. And the judge struck down a Pfizer argument that the former...

The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against the Florida-based Technological Research and Development Authority (TRDA), the Justice Department announced today. The suit was filed in the Southern District of Mississippi. The lawsuit...

DALLAS DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED ROLE IN NEARLY $375 MILLION HEALTH CARE FRAUD SCHEME Office Manager for Doctor and Five Owners of Dallas-Area Home Health Agencies Also Arrested WASHINGTON – A physician and the office manager of his medical practice, along with five...

WASHINGTON – A former Los Angeles church pastor, who owned and operated several fraudulent durable medical equipment (DME) supply companies with her husband, was sentenced today to serve 36 months in prison for her role in a $14.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, the...

WASHINGTON – A patient recruiter for a Houston durable medical equipment (DME) company was convicted today by a federal jury in Houston of health care fraud related to an “arthritis kit” fraud scheme, the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Health and Human...

The settlement resolves various allegations under the U.S. False Claims Act including that Total entities reported processed gas as unprocessed to reduce the royalty payments and made improper deductions. Companies that lease federal and Indian lands to produce...