Politics

Westlake Cardiologist Convicted of Overbilling Medicare and Others of $7.2 Million for Unnecessary Procedures

A Westlake cardiologist was convicted of performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests, stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and other insurers by $7.2 million, law...

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Bloomington Pain Management Doctor Indicted for Accepting Kickbacks as Part of Large-Scale Health Care Fraud Scheme

United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger Wed nesday announced the indictment of ELENA LEV POLUKHIN, 58, for writing prescriptions for pain medication as part of a health care fraud conspiracy in which POLUKHIN received kickbacks from Best Aid Pharmacy...

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Cleveland Business Owner Charged with Bribing City Officials

The owner of a business in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood was indicted for paying bribes to city officials in order to receive payment from a $25,000 city grant despite failing to achieve the equal opportunity employment goals required by the...

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Smithfield Woman Sentenced for Embezzling More Than $274,000 from Her Employer

Christi Romano, aka Christi Machala, 36, of Smithfield, R.I., was sentenced Thursday to four years’ probation, the first six months to be served in home confinement, for embezzling more than $274,000 from Christa Creations, a toy manufacturer and...

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Court Orders Florida Tax Return Preparation Company and Owner to Stop Assisting in Knowing Understatements of Tax Liability; Requires Monitoring at Company's Expense

A federal district judge in Miami has ordered a tax return preparation business based in Miami and its owner to stop assisting in the preparation of federal income tax returns that knowingly understate federal income tax liability, the Justice...

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Former U.S. Army Specialist Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Taking Bribes While Deployed in Afghanistan

A former specialist with the U.S. Army stationed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Gardez, Afghanistan, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison for accepting a $20,000 bribe from a truck driver in exchange for allowing him to take thousands of...

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North Carolina Landowner Sentenced for Impeding and Obstructing Administration of Internal Revenue Code

A Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina, millionaire businessman was sentenced to prison Monday for his involvement in a decades-long scheme to evade paying his federal income taxes, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of...

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New York Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Preparing False Tax Returns

A Brooklyn, New York, tax return preparer pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney...

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