Dec 14, 2022 | Fraud Investigations, Government Investigations
The DOJ just announced that Paul Andrecola, a New Jersey business owner, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for selling $2.7 million worth of unregistered pesticides. Andrecola was previously charged with one count of knowingly distributing or selling an unregistered...
Dec 13, 2022 | Civil Matters
In 1996, Darrell Lee Clark and Cain Joshua Storey were accused of murder in the shooting death of their friend 15-year-old Brian Bowling. Despite evidence that Bowling had unintentionally shot himself, Storey was charged with murder and Clark was alleged to be a...
Dec 7, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On Thursday, December 1, 2022, a former counselor for the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA) was sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing more than $1.3 million in funding from the GVRA that was intended to help state residents with...
Dec 7, 2022 | federal investigations
On December 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing the sentencing of two facility owners who were convicted for their role in an $18 million healthcare fraud scheme. According to the government, Tea Kaganovich and Ramazi Mitaishvil,...
Dec 7, 2022 | Civil Matters, Criminal Matters
On December 2, the Department of Justice announced two former Mississippi Department of Corrections officials were indicted for alleged excessive force against an inmate or “deprivation of rights under color of law.” According to court documents, both Jessica Hill, a...
Dec 2, 2022 | Criminal Matters, Government Investigations, Health Care Fraud, White Collar Crime
On November 30, 2022, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a significant decision affecting sentencing in white collar crime cases. In United States v. Banks, the defendant was convicted on fraud and other related charges. As alleged by the government, the...
Nov 29, 2022 | Civil Matters, Criminal Matters
On November 28, Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney granted Defendants’ Motion to Quash the grand jury indictment that charged six current and former Fulton County detention officers who were facing several charges, including felony murder. The attorneys...
Nov 28, 2022 | Business Litigation
On Monday, November 21, 2022, Georgia’s State-wide Business Court agreed to transfer an $18 million development contract dispute to the Superior Court of Bryan County. The defendants, Ford Field & River Club Inc. and Ford Field & River Association Inc.,...
Nov 28, 2022 | White Collar Crime
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Montenegro extradited Richard Ayvazyan and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, to the U.S. to serve multi-year prison sentences for conspiring to defraud COVID-19 relief programs. According to the DOJ, Mr. Ayvazyan and...
Nov 28, 2022 | False Claims Act
The DOJ announced that a federal jury convicted Rhonda Sutton, an unlicensed medical assistant, for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. According to evidence presented at trial, Sutton conspired to certify Medicare beneficiaries for illegitimate home health...
