CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A Charlotte woman was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to serve 34 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for committing health care fraud, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney also ordered Darlene Read More »
Sentence Mirrors Original Sentence Received in 2005 Following Four Month Trial in Syracuse SYRACUSE, NEW YORK—United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced this afternoon that U.S. District Judge Norman A. Mordue today resentenced Rafil Dhafir, a former physician from Manlius, New York, to a term of 264 months in jail, and ordered him to Read More »
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA — The Saltville Rescue Squad, the president of the squad’s board of directors and an employee have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon on charges related to a conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. In an indictment returned Read More »
Fraud Plot Intended to Steal More Than $4 million from Medicare Likely the Longest Sentence Ever Handed Down in a Health Care Fraud Case in West Virginia CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Sargis Tadevosyan, 42, an Armenian citizen, was sentenced today to a total of six years in prison by United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Read More »
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Two women charged with health care fraud related offenses have pled guilty to the charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Attorney Tompkins is joined in making today’s announcement by Attorney General Roy Cooper, who oversees the North Carolina Medicaid Investigations Unit (MIU); Derrick Read More »
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK— United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that his office has settled a False Claims Act matter involving allegations that Cayuga Medical Center of Ithaca, New York, submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid in connection with improper physician recruitment agreements entered into between Cayuga Medical Center and various medical practices. The Read More »
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Today, ADEDAYO O. ADEGBOYE and OLALEKAN RUFAI, both age 48, and both of Brooklyn, New York, were each sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti to serve 12 months and one day in prison for health care fraud in connection with the sale of power wheelchairs and wheelchair accessories Read More »
BATON ROUGE, LA – United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced that CARLA CLARK, age 47, and LILLIE LAVAN, age 57, both of Pineville, Louisiana, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Frank J. Polozola to counts of an indictment charging health care fraud. The indictment arose from a health care fraud Read More »
Sonja Ascoli of Woonsocket sold medical equipment for Illinois based company whose owner previously pled guilty to shipping unwanted and unneeded medical supplies and “erectile pumps” to Medicare beneficiaries at government expense PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Woonsocket, R.I., woman who allegedly promised custom fit shoes for diabetics and medical equipment for arthritis sufferers “at no Read More »
Defendant, Who Owned Advanced MedEquip & Supplies in Richardson, Texas, Also Provided False Information in Application for Naturalization DALLAS — Okey F. Nwagbara, 45, of Plano, Texas, pleaded guilty this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney to three felony offenses related to his involvement in a health care fraud conspiracy and providing false Read More »
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