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United States of America v. Brenda Rodriguez

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy and aiding and abetting health care fraud.

Brenda Rodriguez was charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

Brenda Rodriguez owned and operated the QC Medical Clinic in Richmond.

At trial, the jury heard Rodriguez paid doctors to approve patients for home health care regardless

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United States, ex rel. Rebecca Kovalich v. Preferred Pain Management & Spine Care, P.A. (PPM) and Dr. David Spivey

Greensboro, North Carolina civil litigation business law lawyers represented defendants charged with violating the False Claims Act.

Preferred Pain Management & Spine Care, P.A. (PPM) and its owner, Dr. David Spivey, have agreed to pay $789,292.95 to resolve civil allegations that PPM violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs for m

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United States of America v. Wilson Asfora, M.D.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota health care fraud lawyer represented defendant charged with taking kickbacks.

Neurosurgeon Wilson Asfora, M.D. of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and two medical device distributorships that he owns, Medical Designs LLC and Sicage LLC, agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to illegal payments to Asfora to induce the use of certain

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United States of America v. CareCloud Health, Inc.

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with health care fraud for paying kickbacks.



The United States alleged that CareCloud Health, Inc. f/k/a CareCloud Corporation (CareCloud), a Miami-based developer of electronic health records (EHR) software products and related services, violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute through its

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United States and the State of Tennessee ex. rel. Suzanne Alt, et al. v. Anesthesia Services Associates, PLLC, et al.

Nashville, Tennessee health care fraud law lawyer represented defendants who were accused with health care fraud.

Anesthesia Services Associates, PLLC d/b/a Comprehensive Pain Specialists (“CPS”), its four majority owners, Dr. Peter B. Kroll, Dr. Steven R. Dickerson, Dr. Gilberto A. Carrero, and Dr. Richard J. Muench (collectively, the “Owners”), and Russell S. Smith, D.C. – a f

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MICHAEL GORDIN MADDIN v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

Little Rock, AR - Faulkner County Circuit Court ordered long-term protective custody of Michael Gordon Maddin, an adult.



The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) filed a petition for emergency custody on March 11, 2020, alleging that Maddin was an endangered or impaired adult under the Adult Maltreatment Custody Act. Ark

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STATE OF KANSAS v. JASMON DEVAR WATSON

Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented Jasmon Devar Watson with one count of making a false claim to the Medicaid program and one count of felony theft charges



Between February 2013 and August 2014, Watson worked two different jobs in
Kansas City, Kansas. First, he worked as a transitional living skills (TLS) ass

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United States of America v. Aleah Mohammed

Brooklyn, New York health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Aleah Mohammed, age 36, who was charged with mail fraud, health care fraud, and conspiracy to commit health care fraud stemming from multiple schemes to defraud health care programs, including obtaining more than $6.5 million from Medicare Part D Plans and Medicaid drug plans.

Mark. J. Lesko, Act

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United States of America v. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates, Inc., and the Foundation of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts false claims act violation lawyers represented the United States of America by suing Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates, Inc., and the Foundation of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Inc. (collectively “Massachusetts Eye and Ear”) have agreed to pay $2.678 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act.

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United States of America v. Jose Garza

Brownsville, Texas health care fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jose Garza, 44, of Harlingen, who was the operations manager for the Merida Group and responsible for carrying out the business’s day to day operations, including overseeing the recruitment of patients at certain locations throughout the Rio Grande Valley. Garza, and others working at his direction, recrui

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United States of America v. Hatem Kaisi

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

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United States ex. rel. Dove v. Doctors Care, P.A.

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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United States of America v. Jeurin Celado, a/k/a “Tony”

Providence, Rhode Island drug charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jeurin Celado, a/k/a “Tony,” 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

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United States of America v. Stephanie Lynn Fleming and Helen Elizabeth Storey

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

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United States of America v. Kandis Mills

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

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United States of America v. Barbara B. White

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

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United States ex rel. Arlene Klinke v. Dinesh Shah, M.D. and Michigan Physicians Group

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

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United States of America v. Bradley J. Harris

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

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United States of America v. Wali Muhammad

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 Family”), a mental health and social services agency. At v

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United States of America v. Heart Center Research, LLC

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

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United States of America v. Kenneth Nash

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

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United States of America v. Patrick Wolfe

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

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United States of America v. Morris Brown, M.D.

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,

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United States of America v. Julie M. Wheeler

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

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Caitlyn Metz v. State of Tennessee

Nashville, TN - Criminal defense attorney represented Caitlyn Metz with a first-degree felony murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated child neglect in the death of her twenty-three-month-old son.



The victim in this case was Petitioner’s twenty-three-month-old son. CoDefendant was indicted for aggravated child abuse;

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