Politics

Former Bechtel Executive Pleads Guilty in Connection with a $5.2 Million Kickback Scheme

The former Principal Vice President of Bechtel Corporation and General Manager of the Power Generation Engineering and Services Company (PGESCo) pleaded guilty in connection with a $5.2 million kickback scheme intended to manipulate the competitive...

Three Charged with Conspiring to Defraud Consumers through Fraudulent Debt Relief Services Firms

A grand jury in Santa Ana, California, indicted three individuals for allegedly operating fraudulent debt relief services companies that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims’ payments as undisclosed up-front fees, the Justice...

Former Bechtel Executive Pleads Guilty in Connection with a $5.2 Million Kickback Scheme

The former Principal Vice President of Bechtel Corporation and General Manager of the Power Generation Engineering and Services Company (PGESCo) pleaded guilty in connection with a $5.2 million kickback scheme intended to manipulate the competitive...

Rite Aid Corporation Pays $2.99 Million for Alleged Use of Gift Cards to Induce Medicare and Medicaid Business

Rite Aid Corporation, a Delaware corporation and national retail drugstore chain with its principal place of business in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, has paid the United States $2.99 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by...

Owners of Orlando Health Care Clinic Charged with $3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

Charges have been unsealed against husband and wife owners of an Orlando health care clinic for their roles in a fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $3 million in allegedly fraudulent claims to Medicare.

Principal in $28.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison

A Florida owner and operator of multiple physical therapy rehabilitation facilities was sentenced in federal court in Tampa to serve 11 years in prison for his role in organizing a $28.3 million Medicare fraud scheme involving physical and...

Government Settles False Claims Act Allegations Against Oxygen and Sleep Therapy Company

North Atlantic Medical Services Inc. (NAMS), doing business as Regional Home Care Inc., has agreed to pay $852,378 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid for respiratory therapy...

Maricopa County Community College District Agrees to Pay $4 Million for Alleged False Claims Related to Award of AmeriCorps Education Awards

Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) has agreed to pay $4.08 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it submitted false claims to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) concerning AmeriCorps...