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The Justice Department announced that Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has agreed to pay $5.75 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims under a contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) that it knew had been awarded in violation of federal procurement regulations. SAIC provides scientific, engineering and technical services to commercial and government customers and is headquartered in Northern Virginia.

Fifty-five hospitals located throughout twenty-one states have agreed to pay the United States a total of more than $34 million to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare for kyphoplasty procedures, the Justice Department announced. Kyphoplasty is a minimally-invasive procedure used to treat certain spinal fractures that often are due to osteoporosis.

CyTerra Corporation has agreed to pay the federal government $1.9 million to resolve civil liability arising from its failure to provide the U. S. Department of the Army with accurate, complete and current cost or pricing data for its sales of mine detectors, the Justice Department announced. CyTerra, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., manufactures equipment, including portable mine detectors, used by the U. S. military.

A Union County, New Jersey man who owns and operates a medical supply company that he runs out of his home admitted to concealing $3,984,508 in business receipts and pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Yuxin Xie, 59, of Mountainside, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark federal court to an information charging one count of tax evasion for failing to report business receipts from his company, YX Enterprises.

Guy Mitchell has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to commit bank fraud and to pay bribes to an officer of a financial institution.

A Cleveland man was sentenced in federal court for using kickbacks in order to trigger investments in a thinly-traded stock.

A former employee of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and a consultant for the expert networking firm Primary Global Research (PGR); and Walter Shimoon, a former employee of Flextronics International Ltd. (Flextronics) and also a consultant for PGR, were each sentenced today to time served plus two years of supervised release for their participation in insider trading schemes during which they provided material, non-public information (inside information) obtained from their employers to certain PGR clients who were money managers.

The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced that Alexei Iazlovsky of Potomac, Md., pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to filing a false tax return for tax year 2008.

A Los Angeles-area doctor and a patient recruiter pleaded guilty for their roles in a power wheelchair fraud scheme that defrauded Medicare of over $10.1 million.

A former claims manager for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority was arrested for allegedly stealing more than $120,000 from the authority, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.