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Jan 21, 2010
Fraudulently Billing Medicare and Medicaid for $36 Million HOUSTONThe owners of several Houston area durable medical equipment (DME) companies convicted by a jury in April 2009 of conspiracy to defraud Medicare and Medicaid, health care fraud, wire fraud, and money…
Jan 21, 2010
Lawsuit Seeks to Restore Lost Competition in Sale of Milk to School Districts and Retailers in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin WASHINGTON The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against Dean Foods Company challenging its April 2009 acquisition…
Jan 20, 2010
Companies Required to Pay $900,000 Civil Penalty WASHINGTON The Department of Justice has reached a settlement with Smithfield Foods Inc. and Premium Standard Farms LLC that requires the companies to pay a total of $900,000 in civil penalties for violating…
Jan 19, 2010
Pacific Pipeline Systems Will Also Discontinue Use of 70 Miles of Pipeline WASHINGTONPacific Pipeline Systems LLP, a Long Beach, California-based oil transport company, has agreed to pay a $1.3 million civil penalty and discontinue the use of a section of…
Jan 18, 2010
Defendants Arrested in Las Vegas and Miami; 21 Search Warrants Executed in United States and United Kingdom WASHINGTONTwenty-two executives and employees of companies in the military and law enforcement products industry have been indicted for engaging in schemes to bribe…
Jan 15, 2010
The first medical teams on the ground in Haiti from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are providing technical assistance at the GHESKIO Clinic in the capital, Port-au-Prince. They will begin basic and acute medical care in the…
Jan 14, 2010
A C-130 Hercules from the 79th Rescue Squadron sits on the runway Jan. 14, 2010, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. Another C-130 from the squadron participated in a Haitian relief mission during the evening of Jan. 13 in Port-au-Prince,…
Jan 14, 2010
WASHINGTONThe United States has filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of New Brunswick, N.J., and two of its subsidiaries, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. The complaint…
Jan 13, 2010
by John J. Kruzel American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Air Force special force operators in Haiti have rescued seven survivors of the massive Jan. 12 earthquake that continues to wreak havoc on the country in its wake, according…
Jan 11, 2010
Victims Describe Ordeals of Loss after ËœUp-Close Meetings with Fraudster LOS ANGELESAfter hearing from 15 victims who described the ramifications of losing their life savings, a federal judge yesterday sentenced an Orange County man to 159 months in prison for…
Jan 10, 2010
Phoenix, Arizona - Douglas Ross Zuber, 51, of Scottsdale, has been sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court to six years in prison and seven years of probation. He must also pay $6,196,985 in restitution to Harvard Investments, Inc., in Scottsdale.…
Jan 5, 2010
Defendant Faces Life in Prison if Convicted WASHINGTON Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, was charged today in a six-count criminal indictment returned in the Eastern District of Michigan for his alleged role in the attempted Christmas day bombing…