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The owner of a home health services company was sentenced to serve five years in prison for his leading role in a conspiracy to structure over $1.8 million in bank withdrawals to conceal a $4.5 million healthcare fraud scheme.

Pharmaceutical company Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC will pay $56.5 million to resolve civil allegations that it violated the False Claims Act as a result of its marketing and promotion of several drugs, the Justice Department announced.

The United States filed eight civil injunction suits in Florida to bar Walner G. Gachette, the founder of Orlando-based tax preparation company LBS Tax Services, seven LBS Tax Services franchisees, and three LBS Tax Services managers from owning, operating, or franchising a tax return preparation business and preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.

The former owner of a Long Beach, California, medical supply company was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,490,532 in restitution for his role in a scheme to provide unnecessary power wheelchairs to Medicare patients, resulting in $2.6 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney S. Amanda Marshall for the District of Oregon and Special Agent in Charge Teri L. Alexander of Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-Criminal Investigation announced the unsealing of two indictments against nine individuals involved in two tax fraud schemes, each of which claimed more than $1 million in fraudulent tax refunds.

A federal court in Los Angeles has permanently barred a Rancho Cucamonga, California, man from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.

A Plymouth, Michigan, man pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

A Plus Home Health Care Inc. and its owners, Tracy Nemerofsky and her father, Stephen Nemerofsky, have agreed to pay $1.65 million to the United States to settle allegations that A Plus paid spouses of referring physicians for sham marketing positions in order to induce patient referrals, the Justice Department announced. A Plus is a home health care company located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Episcopal Ministries to the Aging Inc. (EMA), a Maryland not-for-profit corporation that owns skilled nursing facilities, has agreed to pay $1.3 million to the government for submitting false claims to Medicare for unreasonable or unnecessary rehabilitation therapy purportedly provided by RehabCare Group East Inc., a subsidiary of Kindred Healthcare Inc.

A former LaPorte County deputy auditor has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Indiana for embezzling over $150,000 from the LaPorte County government and committing tax fraud.