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Illinois-based Hardware Distributor W.W. Grainger Pays US $70 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

W.W. Grainger Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $70 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims under contracts with the General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Postal Services (USPS), the Department of Justice...

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Australian Citizen and Former Research Analyst Charged with Insider Trading

Trent Martin, a citizen of Australia and a former research analyst at an international financial services firm, was charged today for his alleged involvement in an insider trading scheme with Thomas C. Conradt and David J. Weishaus, two stockbrokers...

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Wayne County Dentist Sentenced for Health Care Fraud and Illegal Distribution of Controlled Substances

Walter L. Dawkins, D.M.D., 60, of Fairfield, Illinois, was sentenced today in federal court in Benton, Illinois, to one year and one day confinement in the Bureau of Prisons for health care program fraud against Medicaid and illegal distribution of...

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Wife Pleads Guilty to Concealing Husband’s Bribe

Angela Jannell, 50, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, pleaded guilty Friday to misprision of a felon for concealing her husband’s action of taking more than $200,000 in bribes to ensure a Virginia Railway Express (VRE) subcontractor would be retained by...

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Former Bank Executive Arrested for Assisting Olympus Corporation in Several-Hundred-Million-Dollar Accounting Fraud

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced that Chan Ming Fon, a former...

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Eagle Pass Contractor Indicted in Connection with Maverick County Bribery, Kickback, and Bid-Rigging Scheme

In Del Rio, Texas, Eduardo De La Garza, owner of Rio Bravo Construction, surrendered himself to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback, and bid-rigging scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman...

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New Jersey Company Pleads Guilty for Role in Bid-Rigging Scheme at Municipal Tax Lien Auctions

A New Jersey company in the business of receiving the assignment of municipal tax liens pleaded guilty Wednesday for its role in a conspiracy to rig bids for the sale of tax liens auctioned by municipalities in New Jersey, the Department of Justice...

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Sanofi US Agrees to Pay $109 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations of Free Product Kickbacks to Physicians

Sanofi-Aventis U.S. Inc. and Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, subsidiaries of international drug manufacturer Sanofi (collectively, Sanofi US), have agreed to pay $109 million to resolve allegations that Sanofi US violated the False Claims Act by giving...

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