Investigative Press Releases
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.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
CHICAGO — A Southern California businessman has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for illegally brokering the sales of embargoed defense articles from the People’s Republic of China and filing a false corporate tax return.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
PORTLAND, Ore.—On March 30, 2022, a Portland man was sentenced to federal prison for perpetrating a scheme to steal funds intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eric Wade Lysne, 35, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years’ supervised release.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 2 years probation on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
United States District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter imposed the sentence on Matthew Camera, 51.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield, Missouri-based nonprofit Preferred Family Healthcare will pay more than $8 million in forfeiture and restitution to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under the terms of a non-prosecution agreement announced today, which acknowledges the criminal conduct of its former officers and employees.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
AUGUSTA, GA: A Taliaferro County, Ga., man has admitted withholding information about his employment with the U.S. Postal Service when applying for and receiving pension benefits from the Veterans Benefits Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Denver – The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announced that Patricia Gilroy, 58, of Naples, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for a wire fraud scheme in which she received $865,351 as a result of fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) applications that she submitted.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
BAY CITY - A former JPMorgan Chase Bank branch manager was sentenced today to 34 months in federal prison on charges of theft of government funds and identity theft, stemming from his theft of Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits from the account of a deceased bank customer, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
Ison was joined in the announcement by Gail S. Ennis, Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Region, Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
BOSTON – A North Carolina-based clinical laboratory, Radeas LLC, has agreed to pay $11.6 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims for payment to Medicare for medically unnecessary urine drug testing (UDT).
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Baltimore, Maryland – Anuja Kurichh, M.D., an internal medicine physician who operates a medical practice known as PHC Healthcare, LLC in College Park, Maryland, has agreed to pay the United States $555,000 to resolve allegations that she violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the United States for medical services that were not performed by her.