Investigative Press Releases
Monday, April 19, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Andrea M. Gervais, 44, of Roseville, pleaded guilty today to theft of government money in a scheme involving 97 fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims in the names of persons other than her own, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
Monday, April 19, 2021
A man who defrauded the Social Security Administration out of more than $105,000 over a five-year period was sentenced on April 16, 2021, to one year and one day in federal prison.
Dustin Francis Ruzicka, age 50, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a November 10, 2020 guilty plea to Social Security disability insurance benefits fraud.
Friday, April 16, 2021
BOSTON – A Brockton man who has been living under a false identity was arrested on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 on charges of aggravated identity theft and misuse of a Social Security number.
An individual referred to as “John Doe” was charged with one count of misusing a Social Security number and one count of aggravated identity theft. Following an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler, Doe was detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for April 19, 2021.
Friday, April 16, 2021
BOSTON – A Wareham woman was arrested on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 for stealing Social Security benefits.
Erika Cyr-Camara, 46, was indicted on one count of theft of public funds. She was released on conditions after making an initial appearance in federal court in Boston.
As alleged in the indictment, Cyr-Camara stole approximately $49, 275 in Social Security benefits from March 2016 through July 2019.
Friday, April 16, 2021
BOSTON – Co-owners of a New Hampshire asbestos abatement company have been charged and agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to employee pension plans.
Richard Quinn, 58, of Sterling, Mass., and Gary McCaffrey, 65, of Salem, N.H., were charged and agreed to plead guilty to one count of making false statements to a pension plan covered by the Employee Retirement Security Act (ERISA).
Friday, April 16, 2021
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The last of six defendants were sentenced today for participating in multiple health care fraud conspiracies involving kickbacks and fraudulent billings that resulted in nearly $8 million in losses to federal, state, and private health care benefit programs.
Friday, April 16, 2021
NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia Beach woman was sentenced today to five years in prison for her role in an internet-based loan scam that defrauded nearly 1,700 owners and prospective owners of small businesses out of $1,076,000.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Gregory J. Gerber, 55, of Port Clinton, Ohio, with 51 counts of distribution of controlled substances and two counts of health care fraud. According to the indictment, the Defendant was a licensed medical physician practicing in Sandusky, Ohio, specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation and anesthesiology with a sub-specialty in pain medicine.
Friday, April 16, 2021
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Preferred Pain Management & Spine Care, P.A. (PPM) and its owner, Dr. David Spivey, have agreed to pay $789,292.95 to resolve civil allegations that PPM violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug testing (UDT) between June 1, 2014 and May 24, 2017, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston.