Jean Francois Picard, a medical marketer based in Los Angeles, was sentenced in United States District Court, Southern District of California, on June 14, 2021, to 10 months in prison and three years of probation for payment of illegal remunerations. Our investigation found that Picard paid kickbacks to other marketers for facilitating the referral of prescriptions for medically unnecessary compounded drugs and other items reimbursed by health care benefit programs. As a result of the scheme, Amtrak’s insurance providers were fraudulently charged approximately $22,000. Criminal judicial proceedings for other defendants in this case are pending.
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| Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) | Medical Marketer Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison in Heath Care Fraud Scheme | Investigation |
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| U.S. Agency for International Development | Financial Audit of the Gomal Zam Dam Command Area Development Project in Pakistan Managed by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives Department, Grant 391-DOA-GZDCADP-001-001, July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020 | Other |
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| U.S. Agency for International Development | Closeout Audit of Community Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health and Nutrition Scale Up Follow-on Program Managed by the Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines, Inc., Cooperative Agreement AID-492-A-16-00004, August 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019 | Other |
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| Department of Health & Human Services | Selected NIH Institutes Met Requirements for Documenting Peer Review But Could Do More To Track and Explain Funding Decisions | Inspection / Evaluation | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Department of Health & Human Services | Medicare Part B Drug Payments: Impact of Price Substitutions Based on 2019 Average Sales Prices | Inspection / Evaluation | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Internal Revenue Service | Controls Over the Internal Revenue Service Contractor Tax Check Process Need to Be Improved. | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Social Security Administration | Follow-up: Personally Identifiable Information Made Available to the Public Via the Death Master File | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Social Security Administration | The Social Security Administration’s Demonstration Projects | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Department of Defense | Audit of the Department of Defense’s Sea Transportation and Storage of Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Department of Energy | Subcontractor-Performed Commercial Grade Dedication at Los Alamos National Laboratory | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |