September 6, 2010

Arrests made for $251M Medicare Fraud

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Dozens of people were arrested on Friday in New York, Detroit, Houston, Baton, and in Miami. It was the nation’s largest Medicare fraud crackdown, and 94 people, including doctors, nurses, clinic owners were charged in scams totaling $251 millions. In some cases elderly russian immigrant received expensive treatments, that never occurred, and in one special [...]

Roman Polanski is a free man now

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According to Switzerland’s Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf: “Mr. Polanski can now move freely. Since 12:30 today he’s a free man, He can move freely in Switzerland, France, Poland, everywhere where he doesn’t have to reckon with legal proceedings.”. French-born film director Roman Polanski was arrested in September 2009 in Zürich because he was charged of [...]

Member of a child exploitation ring pleaded guilty after ICE investigation

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Dave Dean, a member of an international group of child pornography collectors who used a social networking site to distribute thousands of sexually explicit images to each other, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to a charge of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, Acting U.S. Attorney Robert S. Cessar announced today. Dean, [...]

New Justice Department Team monitors BP Oil Spill

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Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that he is dispatching a team of attorneys from multiple divisions within the Justice Department to New Orleans to meet with the U.S. Attorney and response teams and to monitor the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “The British Petroleum oil spill has already cost lives and created [...]

Clinical employee pleaded guilty for being part of a medical fraud

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Miami resident Hans Lobato pleaded guilty today to engaging in a fraudulent medical testing scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS). Lobato, 25, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Alan S. Gold in the Southern District of Florida to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. [...]