Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 12, 2013.  A former registered nurse was sentenced yesterday to serve 111 months in prison for his role in a health care fraud scheme involving defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN), announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S.[Read More…]

Government Teams Recovered $4.2 Billion in FY 2012 WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—February 11, 2013. Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report showing that for every dollar spent on health care-related fraud and abuse investigations in the last three years, the government recovered[Read More…]

Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Rockford, Illinois man was sentenced February 7 in federal court on drug conspiracy charges. Steven T. McDowell, 38, of Rockford, also known as “Ty,” was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 315 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 8, 2013.  A federal grand jury has indicted two members of the Compton 155 street gang on federal hate crime charges related to a racially motivated attack on four African-American juveniles at a residence in the city of Compton, Calif., on New Year’s Eve. Jeffrey Aguilar, aka “Terco,”[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 8, 2013. The Justice Department reached a settlement agreement today with Avant Healthcare Professionals LLC, a healthcare staffing company based in Casselberry, Fla. , resolving allegations that the company posted discriminatory job advertisements on the internet. According to the department’s investigation, hundreds of Avant Healthcare Professionals’ internet-based job[Read More…]

Department Continues to Litigate Against Apple Inc. WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 8, 2013. The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, which does business as Macmillan, and will continue to litigate against Apple Inc. for conspiring with Macmillan and four of the other largest U.S.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013. Everett Dwayne Avery, 26, of Detroit, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John Corbett O’Meara after pleading guilty to committing a hate crime by assaulting a man because the man was gay. Avery was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison to be followed by three years of[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013. St. Joseph’s Medical Center, a hospital located in Towson, Md., has reached a settlement with the United States to pay $4.9 million in connection with its submission of false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs, the Justice Department announced today.   This settlement[Read More…]