Security News in Brief: Justice Department Launches Statewide Disability Rights Investigation into South Carolina’s Use of Adult Care Homes

Source: United States Department of Justice News

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has opened an investigation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into whether the State of South Carolina subjects adults with mental illness to unnecessary institutionalization and risk of institutionalization, in adult care homes.

Security News in Brief: Surgery Centers and Medical Offices in Brooklyn and New Jersey Settle Allegations of Federal Health Care Fraud

Source: United States Department of Justice News

Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, New York Region (HHS-OIG), and Norbert E. Vint, Deputy Inspector General, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), announced today that 12 surgery centers and medical offices affiliated with Interventional Pain Management Center P.C. (“IPMC”), a company owned by Dr. Amit Poonia, have agreed to pay $7,447,340.75 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for claims submitted to federal health care programs for acupuncture treatment.

Defense News in Brief: Navy Counters Drone Threats at Point Mugu

Source: United States Navy

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – The Pacific Target Marine Operations (PTMO), a division Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s Threat/Target Systems Department, recently deployed small-drones over Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC), Point Mugu to provide cost-effective unmanned aerial system (UAS) familiarization and threat training.