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BioTelemetry Inc., a heart monitoring company headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $6.4 million to resolve allegations made under the False Claims Act (FCA) that its subsidiary, CardioNet, overbilled Medicare and other federal health programs for Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry (MCOT) services when those services were not reasonable or medically necessary, the Justice Department announced on March 19.

On March 19, A former resident of North Bellmore, New York, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Long Island to one count of tax evasion and one count of filing a false federal income tax return, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

The owner and operator of a New Orleans-based medical clinic and an accountant pleaded guilty in federal court in New Orleans for their roles in a $50 million Medicare fraud scheme on March 18.

Gilbane Building Company will pay the United States $1.1 million to resolve allegations that W.G. Mills Incorporated – a company with which Gilbane merged in November 2010 – violated the False Claims Act by creating a front company, Veterans Constructors Incorporated (VCI), in order to be awarded a Coast Guard contract that was designated for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs), the Justice Department announced on March 18.

The United States filed a complaint seeking to permanently bar an Indianapolis woman from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced on March 17.

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina has returned an indictment against a Raleigh, North Carolina, resident for one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, 17 counts of presenting false claims to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), three counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker of the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Two Phenix City, Alabama, women and a Columbus, Georgia, woman pleaded guilty for their roles in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced on March 13.

Michigan resident Lip Bor Ng, also known as Paul Wu, 52, pleaded guilty before Judge Mark A. Goldsmith to a one-count conspiracy information, which charged him with conspiring with others to knowingly submit false and misleading export information to the United States, to fraudulently and knowingly export electronic waste in violation of United States law and to export hazardous waste without filing a notification of intent to export with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced former correctional officers Kimberly Dennis, age 27, and Antonia Allison, age 29, both of Baltimore, Maryland to 24 months and 20 months in prison, respectively, each followed by two years of supervised release, for a racketeering conspiracy in which they smuggled drugs and other contraband for members of the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang inside several correctional facilities. Dennis was sentenced March 12, 2015 and Allison was sentenced on March 10, 2015.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that 10th Street Gang member Matthew Deynes, 33, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) conspiracy, was sentenced to 125 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara on March 12.