Investigative Press Releases
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On Monday, U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez ordered the final forfeiture of $3.9 million in private jet shares bringing the total court-ordered forfeiture this year to more than $54 million related to the DC Solar Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Baltimore, Maryland – Ebenezer Quainoo, M.D., an internist in Baltimore, Maryland, who operates a medical practice known as Baltimore Health Care, P.C., has agreed to pay the United States $436,000 to settle allegations that he submitted false claims to the United States for medically unnecessary autonomic nervous function tests and trigger point injections with the use of ultrasound guidance.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. – A Union County, New Jersey, man was charged today with allegedly filing a false tax return for tax year 2013, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
Anthony Salters, 57, of Hillside, New Jersey, is charged by complaint with subscribing to a false tax return. A summons was issued for Salters to appear in Newark federal court at a time to be scheduled by U.S. Magistrate Judge Leda Dunn Wettre.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
U.S. Attorney John F. Bash of the Western District of Texas announced today that Blue Furniture Solutions, LLC, its successor XMillenium, LLC, and two of the companies’ former executives—CEO Yingqing Zeng and CFO Alex Cheng—have agreed to pay more than $5.2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by evading customs duties and fees on furniture imported from China.
Monday, April 13, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – April 14, 2020 – Maury Regional Hospital, d/b/a Maury Regional Medical Center, has agreed to pay $1,702,903 to settle False Claims Act allegations, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Monday, April 13, 2020
Monday, April 13, 2020
BOSTON – A Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) employee has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling nearly $70,000 in VA funds.
Michael Donaher, 41, of Lakeville, was charged with one count of embezzlement and theft of public money, property or records. He has agreed, as part of a plea agreement, to reimburse the government for the funds he stole. A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled. Donaher was arrested in January on a criminal complaint.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
RALEIGH – United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, DAVID BURLEY, 67, Bayboro, Nc was named in a Criminal Information filed on April 6, 2020 charging him with False Statement or Fraud to Obtain Federal Employee’s Compensation. If convicted, he faces up to one-year imprisonment, a $100,000 fine, and up to one year supervised release.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
PHOENIX, Ariz. – United States Attorney Michael Bailey and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich today launched a joint federal, state, and local task force to combat coronavirus-related fraud.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
NEWARK, N.J. – Pentax Medical Company will pay $43 million to resolve criminal charges based on the company’s shipment of four types of endoscopes for 18 months without FDA-cleared instructions for use and the company’s failure to file timely reports of two infections associated with its endoscopes, the Department of Justice announced today.