May 3, 2022 | White Collar Crime
The DOJ just announced that Donald Woo Lee, a former internal medicine doctor from Temecula, California, was sentenced to 93 months in prison for defrauding Medicare. In June of 2016, Lee was charged with seven counts of health care fraud and one count of adulteration...
Apr 20, 2022 | False Claims Act, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, White Collar Crime
The Department of Justice announced that Dr. Vinay Malviya, a Michigan gynecologic oncologist, agreed to pay $775,000 to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act. Specifically, it was alleged that Dr. Malviya performed radical and modified radical...
Apr 12, 2022 | White Collar Crime
The Department of Justice just announced that an Illinois man, Devontae Stokes, admitted to fraudulently obtaining unemployment insurance benefits (“UIB”) while incarcerated at a New Jersey federal correctional institution. According to court documents, from April...
Apr 5, 2022 | Health Care, Health Care Fraud, White Collar Crime
On April 1, 2022, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced a Missouri based non-profit, Preferred Family Healthcare (“PFH”), admitted to the misuse and misappropriation of federal funds designated for healthcare services. PFH received most of its funding from...
Mar 31, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On March 23, a federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas acquitted a former Boeing test pilot of charges for wire fraud stemming from his work on the Boeing 737 Max. In 2018 and 2019, system failures on the jets led to two fatal crashes and the deaths of 346 people. In...
Mar 30, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On November 8, 2021, Chilivis Grubman reported on the conviction of two clinic operators and brothers, Jonathan and Daniel Markovich. Jonathan Markovich owned and operated Second Chance Detox LLC, an inpatient detox and residential facility, and WAR Network LLC, a...
