Louisville, Kentucky filing false federal income tax returns charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Hatem Kaisi, age 52, who was charged with three counts of filing false federal income tax returns for 2012 through 2014 and one count of healthcare fraud for defrauding the Kentucky Medicaid program.

“The defendant failed to report almost $1 million of income on his tax... More...   $0 (04-11-2021 - KY)

Columbia, South Carolina health care fraud false claims act lawyers represented the United States and the defendant, Doctors Care PA, South Carolina’s largest urgent care provider network – and its management company, UCI Medical Affiliates of South Carolina, Inc. (“UCI�), will pay $22.5 million to resolve civil allegations of healthcare fraud in violation of the False Claims Act.
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Providence, Rhode Island drug charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jeurin Celado, a/k/a “Tony,â€� 30, who was charged with operating a drug stash house and arranging for the sale of fentanyl on at least four occasions, he used the identity of an individual unknown to him, including the person’s Social Security number and other personal identifying information, to gain Rhode I... More...   $0 (04-10-2021 - RI)

Tallahassee, Florida health care fraud conspiracy charge criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants, Stephanie Lynn Fleming, 42, and Helen Elizabeth Storey, 37, both of Waldorf, Maryland, and both formerly of Tallahassee, Florida, who were charged health care fraud conspiracy, health care fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

Storey owned and operated North Florida Mental Health (NF... More...   $0 (04-09-2021 - FL)

Urbana, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented defendant who was charged with tampering with morphine intended for hospice patients and using it herself. Mills was ordered to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons on May 25, 2021, to begin serving her prison term, and to remain on supervised release for three years following her release from prison.

“This case shows both the dev... More...   $0 (03-24-2021 - IL)

Evansville, Indiana criminal defense lawyer presented defendant charged with health care fraud.

Barbara B. Witte, 74, of Evansville, Indiana, was charged with felony health care fraud.

Witte was a licensed mental health counselor. She provided counseling services for patients in Evansville and Vanderburgh County through her business, B-One Counseling. She billed health care benef... More...   $0 (03-23-2021 - IN)

Detroit, Michigan false claims act lawyer represented Defendants, Dinesh M. Shah, M.D. and his practice, Michigan Physicians Group, P.C., who were used on False Claims Act theories for knowingly billing federal healthcare programs for diagnostic testing that was either unnecessary or not performed. MPG is a Michigan professional corporation with primary offices located in Berkley and Livonia, Mic... More...   $0 (03-23-2021 - MI)

Dallas, Texas health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Bradley J. Harris, the 39-year-old former head of Novus and Optimum Health Services, who was charged conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and healthcare fraud.

“Mr. Harris scammed federal healthcare programs out of millions of dollars, and worse yet, denied vulnerable patients the medical oversight th... More...   $0 (03-19-2021 - TX)

New Haven, Connecticut health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Wali Muhammad, 45, of Branford, who was charged with one count of health care fraud.

According to court documents and statements made in court, from 2010 to 2019 Muhammad owned and operated Happy Family Clinical Services LLC (“Happy Familyâ€�), a mental health and social services agency. At v... More...   $0 (03-11-2021 - CT)

Seattle, Washington illegal kickback charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Heart Center Research, LLC, a Huntsville, Alabama, medical research company, was accused of its member physicians referring patients for genetic testing in exchange for kickbacks from a Seattle-area testing company.

According to the settlement agreement, between 2012 and 2013, the company was alle... More...   $0 (03-05-2021 - WA)

Grand Rapids, Michigan health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kenneth Nash, the owner of a South Haven home health agency, who was health care fraud. He admitted that his company, Universal Home Health Care, submitted claims for home health services totaling more than $750,000 when no physician had approved the services but, instead, employees forged physician sign... More...   $0 (02-21-2021 - MI)

Savannah, GA - Bribery charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Patrick Wolfe, 48, of Belleair Beach, Fla., the operator of Wilmington Island Medical Inc., which does business as WI Medical Inc., was wiht one count of Conspiracy.

“After ripping off taxpayer-provided health care benefits to fuel his own greed, Patrick Wolfe had the audacity to flaunt his ill-gotten gains b... More...   $0 (02-14-2021 - GA)

Columbus, Ohio drug distribution charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Morris Brown, M.D., age 73, who was charged with illegally distributing opioids.

Brown was charged in an April 2019 indictment along with four co-defendants: Ismail Abuhanieh, 50, of Phoenix, Arizona; Mahmoud Elmiari, 44, of Bellbrook, Ohio; Yohannes Tinsae, 48, of Beavercreek, Ohio; and Mahmoud Rifai,... More...   $0 (02-09-2021 - OH)

Beckley, West Virginia conspiracy to obstruct justice criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Julie M. Wheeler, who was charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice for trying to fake her death to avoid being sentenced to health care fraud.

“Julie Wheeler faked a traumatic death to avoid her judgment day with the courts. While she was found hiding in a closet she was also hiding f... More...   $0 (02-05-2021 - WV)

Cleveland, Ohio Controlled Substance Act Violation lawyer represented Shaffer Pharmacy, Thomas Tadsen and Wilson Bunton who were alleged to have improperly dispensed opioids and other controlled substances.

The government alleged that Shaffer Pharmacy, its pharmacist owner Thomas Tadsen, and pharmacist Wilson Bunton repeatedly dispensed opioids and other controlled substances in violation... More...   $0 (01-15-2021 - OH)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense health care fraud lawyer represented Dr. Michael Don Robertson, age 68, a former Anchorage psychiatrist, was charged with conspiracy to commit controlled substance fraud and one count of health care fraud. Robertson knowingly and intentionally distributed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical pur... More...   $0 (01-09-2021 - AK)

Nashville, Tennessee false claims action lawyers represented James P. Anderson, M.D., Affiliated Neurologists, PLC; Charles F. Spencer, D.C., Total Family Physicians Center PLLC d/b/a Total Family Health & Wellness; and Mitchell P. Shea, D.C., Chiro2Med of Tennessee P.C. who were accused of improper billing for electro-acupuncture using a peri-auricular stimulation device known as “P-Stimâ€� th... More...   $0 (01-07-2021 - TN)

Tallahassee, Florida Criminal Defense Health Care Fraud Lawyer

Dr. Moses deGraft-Johnson, a dual citizen of the United States and Ghana, was charged with committing health care fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

Over the course of almost four years, beginning in late 2015 or early 2016 until his arrest in February 2020, deGraft-Johnson... More...   $0 (12-28-2020 - FL)

Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense drug lawyer represented defendant charged with unlawfully distributing opioids and other controlled substances while the doctor was absent from the clinic.

Elizabeth Korcz, M.D., 47, a licensed physician, and Matthew Korcz, 47, her husband and former practice manager, both of Hoover, Alabama, were charged with conspiracy to unlawfully distribute co... More...   $0 (12-21-2020 - AL)

Abingdon, Virginia providing false information criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Timothy Baxter, who was charged with a one-count misdemeanor Information related to Indivior’s false and misleading representations to the Massachusetts Medicaid program (MassHealth) regarding Suboxone, a drug approved for recovering opioid addicts to avoid or reduce withdrawal symptoms.

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Memphis, TN - Conspiracy to distribute drugs criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kathryn Nikole Russell, 41, of Memphis, was charged with conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances. The defendant was charged in an April 2019 indictment as part of the first Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) Strike Force Takedown. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/us-atto... More...   $0 (12-16-2020 - TN)

Houston, Texas Teresita Lumanas Alquero and Providence Home Health and Providence Hospice knowingly and willfully committed health care fraud by paying improper kickbacks for referrals of Medicare patients to her businesses.

Teresita Lumanas Alquero owned both entities at the time of the alleged violations but has since sold them.

�We cannot tolerate kickbacks, especially those... More...   $0 (12-15-2020 - OK)