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March 20, 2024 — Andrew Chmiel, of Mt. Pleasant, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison yesterday for his role in a nearly $100 million scheme related to the payment of kickbacks and bribes in exchange for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) orders.

June 28, 2023 — U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe announced criminal charges against fourteen defendants in connection with over $1.9 billion in fraud prosecuted in the Southern District of Florida, as part of the Department of Justice's 2023 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action. The charges stem from various schemes to defraud government and private health care benefit programs by submitting false claims for items and services that were not needed and, in many instances, never provided as well as a scheme to unlawfully distribute adulterated and misbranded prescription medications.

Aug. 14, 2024 — A Florida man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Concord for his role in a conspiracy to defraud Medicare of $39.5 million, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces.

December 7, 2022 — U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Ruth Bianca Fernandez (Pompano Beach) to three years in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud and for making a false statement in a matter involving a federal health care benefit program. As part of her sentence, the court ordered Fernandez to pay approximately $12 million to the affected government health programs and an insurance company, which obligation is joint and several with other coconspirators. The court also entered an order of forfeiture against Fernandez in the amount of $62,650. Fernandez had pleaded guilty on October 18, 2021.

Aug. 5, 2024 — The owner of a tattoo removal business in South Gate pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for recruiting paraplegics in a health care fraud scheme that netted more than $1.7 million and for cheating on his taxes.

March 7, 2023 — A judge sentenced a Tennessee physician and his wife yesterday for unlawfully distributing opioids and defrauding insurers through their now-shuttered Alabama clinics.

February 2, 2023 — A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin returned an indictment yesterday charging Kevin Breslin, of Hoboken, New Jersey, and KBWB Operations, LLC, doing business as Atrium Health and Senior Living (Atrium) in Park Ridge, New Jersey, with a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid in connection with the delivery of or payment for health care benefits, items, or services.

Criminal Investigation (CI) classifies its investigations into program and emphasis areas of fraud.

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