Investigative Press Releases
Thursday, March 18, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Mariela Panganiban, 48, of Elk Grove, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with the owners of home health care agencies to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced charges against 13 defendants in a multi-million dollar health care fraud conspiracy. The defendants made their initial appearances yesterday before Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz in U.S. District Court.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Thursday, March 18, 2021
BECKLEY, W.Va. – A Raleigh County pharmacist was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison for her role in a fraud scheme which cost victims over $2 million in losses. She was also ordered to pay over $2.5 million in restitution to the victims and serve a term of three years of supervised release.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
SAVANNAH, GA: Two Florida residents have admitted they colluded in a scheme to steal pandemic unemployment funds.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
LOS ANGELES – A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Complex, Victorville was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison for accepting more than $15,000 in cash bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband – including methamphetamine and cell phones – into the complex’s high-security penitentiary.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Catherine Verdon, 46, of Middletown Springs, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Rutland following her guilty plea to an indictment charging her with making false statements to obtain federal and state program benefit payments. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford ordered that Verdon serve two years of probation and pay $95,000 in restitution to the State of Vermont and the U.S. Social Security Administration.