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Australia-wide search warrants disrupt international money laundering networks

A joint international effort to disrupt a sophisticated transnational money laundering network resulted in 13 search warrants being conducted across Australia, with a further nine search warrants conducted by the Indian Enforcement Directorate (IED)...

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HSI dismantles large-scale Los Angeles-area drug lab Investigators seize nearly $5 million worth of chemicals, crystal methamphetamine and marijuana

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Mastermind of Online Counterfeit Card Retail Shop Pleads Guilty

The mastermind of a one-stop online shop selling counterfeit payment cards and holographic overlays used by criminals to create fake driver’s licenses admitted to running the fakeplastic.net website, which was responsible for an estimated $30 million...

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Seven Defendants Indicted and Three Other Defendants Plead Guilty for Their Roles in $56 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

A New Orleans grand jury indicted seven defendants for their roles in a $56 million Medicare fraud scheme that operated in New Orleans and surrounding communities. Thirteen defendants have now been charged in this case, three of whom pleaded guilty...

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Owner of Home Health Agency Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Structuring $1.8 Million in Cash Withdrawals to Conceal a $4.5 Million Healthcare Fraud Scheme

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.

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Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC to Pay $56.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Drug Marketing and Promotion Practices

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.

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Justice Department Sues Regional Tax Preparation Firm's Owner and Franchisees and Managers to Stop Alleged Systematic and Pervasive Tax Fraud

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,...

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Former Owner of Los Angeles-Area Medical Equipment Supply Company Sentenced for $2.6 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

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,...

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