Schools Located in Texas, Florida, New Mexico and Oklahoma Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 22, 2013.  ATI Enterprises Inc. will pay the government $3.7 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it falsely certified compliance with federal student aid programs’ eligibility requirements and submitted claims for ineligible students, the Justice Department announced[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 22, 2013. A Miami title agent and former mortgage broker was sentenced today for her role in a reverse mortgage loan fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, and Special[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 22, 2013.  Robert Andres, 62, an investment manager based in Houston, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Salt Lake City for his role in a $72 million investment fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney David B. Barlow[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2013.  An Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang member and an ABT associate have pleaded guilty to charges related to the May 2008 murder of Mark Davis Byrd Sr. in Atascosa County, Texas. The guilty pleas were announced today by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2013.  A patient recruiter and a therapy staffing company owner pleaded guilty today in connection with a $7 million health care fraud scheme involving the now defunct home health care company Anna Nursing Services Corp. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division;[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2013.  Richard S. Obedian, a Long Island, N.Y., orthopedic surgeon, will pay the government $388,000 to settle allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare for minimally invasive spine procedures, the Justice Department announced today.   Allegedly, throughout 2005, Obedian knowingly submitted[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2013.  The Justice Department announced yesterday that Multi/Tech Engineering Services Inc., an engineering firm based in Salem, Ore., has agreed to pay more than $60,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had violated the Fair Housing Act by designing Gateway Village Apartments with steps and other[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013.  Shands Teaching Hospital & Clinics Inc., Shands Jacksonville Medical Center Inc. and Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc. (collectively, Shands Healthcare), which operates a network of health care providers in Florida, will pay the government and the state of Florida a total of $26 million to settle allegations[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013.  The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has joined with private plaintiffs in entering an interim settlement agreement with the state of Texas intended to enable Texans with intellectual and other developmental disabilities to live in community settings rather than nursing facilities.  The interim[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2013. Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Jocelyn Samuels, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven M. Dettelbach and Special Agent in Charge for the FBI Cleveland Field Office Stephen D. Anthony,  announced today that former Lorain County, Ohio corrections officer Marlon[Read More…]