Investigative Press Releases
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Fort Myers, FL – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC (FCS), an oncology group headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, has agreed to a civil settlement that will return $2,341,508.91 that was overpaid by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for certain claims relating to physician-administered drugs.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement today arrested eight individuals named in a federal grand jury indictment charging them with creating nonexistent businesses and then claiming more than $1.1 million in unemployment benefits for purported employees of those fake businesses.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. – A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man has been charged with bank fraud, theft, and identity theft U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
CAMDEN, N.J. – A Camden County, New Jersey, man today admitted buying and reselling 80 milligram oxycodone pills as part of his role in drug trafficking operations based in Gloucester City and Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Greenbelt, Maryland – A federal grand jury in Maryland has returned an indictment charging Arthur Morgan, age 67, of Lorton, Virginia, with federal wire fraud charges, in connection with federal contracts to provide helmets, body armor, and other items to military and other federal entities. The indictment was returned on July 6, 2020.
Monday, July 6, 2020
Four former supervisory correctional officers at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana — Daniel Davis (43), Scotty Kennedy (52), John Sanders (34), and James Savoy, Jr. (42) — were sentenced on July 2, for their roles in assaulting an inmate who was handcuffed, shackled, and not resisting, and for conspiring to cover up their misconduct by devising a false cover story, submitting false reports documenting that cover story, tampering with witnesses, and lying under oath.
Monday, July 6, 2020
TRENTON, N.J. – Seven people have been charged for their alleged roles in a large-scale conspiracy to commit bank fraud in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Michigan over the course of two years, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
Monday, July 6, 2020
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, the U.S. District Court entered a civil Consent Judgment against defendants William J. Cruz and Medscan, P.S.C. whereby the defendants agreed to pay one million dollars to the United States resulting from an investigation conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General and the FBI, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow.
Monday, July 6, 2020
Monday, July 6, 2020
SHERMAN, Texas – Bibi Tasleyma Sattar, D.O., and her practice, Oakmont Wellness Center, PA, (collectively, “Dr. Sattar”) have agreed to pay $210,000 to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving accepting payments for patient referrals in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as claims otherwise improperly billed to federal healthcare programs for laboratory testing, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.