A prominent New Jersey cardiologist pled guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud this week, admitting he scammed the government for $19 million in false claims and ran up a $6 million Spanish advertising campaign bill in the process. Officials are calling it “the largest health care scam in New […]
After just an eight-week jury trial in New York, a Staten Island doctor was convicted in relation to one of the most elaborate and sophisticated Medicare fraud schemes the country has ever seen. Dr. Gustave Drivas, a medical doctor licensed in New York, worked for a clinic in Brooklyn that […]
The owners and operators of a Miami-based mental health clinic and the facility itself were recently convicted for participating in a wide-reaching Medicare fraud scheme. The mental health facility, Biscayne Milieu, submitted more than $50 million in fraudulent invoices to Medicare. The defendants were convicted of conspiracy to commit healthcare […]
Another Medicare fraud lawsuit has come to an end with the owner of a now-closed group of mental health centers pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a False Claims Act suit against defense contractors Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) and First Kuwaiti Trading Company in relation to fraud in Iraq. KBR is based in Houston, Texas and First Kuwaiti, a KBR subcontractor, is located in Kuwait. […]