Month: February 2022

Source: United States Department of Justice 2

Medicare reimbursement consultant Ted Albin and his wholly-owned consulting and billing firm Grapevine Billing and Consulting Services Inc. (Grapevine), both based in Stuart, Florida, have agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act. This settlement resolves allegations that Albin and Grapevine caused the submission of false claims to Medicare because of kickbacks to Medicare beneficiaries and because patients were ineligible to receive glucometers. This settlement is based on the United States’ analysis of financial disclosures made by Grapevine.

Source: United States Department of Justice News

BOSTON – A leader of MS-13 was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy and his participation in the July 2018 murder of a teenage boy in Lynn, who suffered at least 32 sharp force trauma wounds consistent with being stabbed repeatedly, along with blunt force injuries to the head.

Source: United States Department of Justice News

WASHINGTON – Joshua Austin, 34, of Washington, D.C. was sentenced today to 24 years in prison for attacking a senior citizen in an apartment stairwell during a robbery in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

Source: United States Department of Justice News

Orlando, Florida – U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Georgi Milenov Solakov (29, Tampa) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and for carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Solakov had pleaded guilty on September 2, 2021.

Source: United States Department of Justice News

U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Demar A. Brown, age 38, of Paterson, New Jersey and Winston-Salem, North Carolina to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy and for transportation of stolen property, taken during a series of burglaries committed in Maryland and Georgia. Brown was convicted by a federal jury on September 16, 2021, after a 10-day trial for his role in the series of home burglaries.