Investigative Press Releases
Friday, April 1, 2022
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division, today announced the results of an interdiction related to the use of the U.S. Mail to ship drugs and drug proceeds.
Friday, April 1, 2022
East St. Louis, Ill. – The United States filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Illinois against General Medicine, P.C. (“General Medicine”), Thomas M. Prose, M.D. –
the owner of General Medicine, and seventeen related corporate entities owned by Prose. In a
96-page complaint, the government alleges Defendants violated the False Claims Act in a widespread
healthcare fraud scheme involving the submission of thousands of false claims to the Medicare
Friday, April 1, 2022
NEW ORLEANS – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that PATRICK HUSE, age 40, of Perkinston, Mississippi, pled guilty today to a violation of Title 33, United States Code, Section 1321(b)(3) and 1319(c)(1)(A).
Friday, April 1, 2022
MINNEAPOLIS – A Canadian man has been arrested and charged for his role in a $300 million telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted elderly and vulnerable victims, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
ABINGDON, Va. – A Smyth County man, who ordered approximately 30,000 fentanyl pills from California and sold them in Southwest Virginia, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court.
Zachary Ryan Hutton, 21, of Marion, Virginia, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of knowingly possessing with the intent to distribute and distributing 400 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing fentanyl.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 97 months in prison on March 30, 2022 for orchestrating a long-running bank and securities fraud scheme, which led to large-scale losses for financial institutions and investors, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
NEWARK, N.J. – Newark Housing Authority (NHA)’s former director of information technology admitted using his position to embezzle NHA funds to purchase cellular telephones and other electronic devices, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
Venancio Diaz, 56, of Jersey City, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Brian Martinotti in Newark federal court on March 30, 2022, to an information charging him with committing theft from an agency receiving federal funds.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
BRUNSWICK, GA: Three men have been sentenced to federal prison in separate but related cases in which they admitted providing forced labor for south Georgia farms.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
ATLANTA – OGCC Behavioral Health Services, Inc. (“OGCC”) and its owner and Executive Director, Dionne Huffman, have agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by, among other things, billing the government for services that they did not provide or were not provided in the way that OGCC said that they were.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Fort Myers, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the arrest and unsealing of a criminal complaint charging Daniel Joseph Tisone (34, Naples) with wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal monetary transactions. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison on each of the fraud charges and up to 10 years in federal prison for the illegal monetary transaction offense.