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Source: United States Department of Justice News
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of West Virginia, is teaming up with Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, the FBI, and West Virginia University to hold a symposium discussing the cutting-edge methods used to convict a serial killer who preyed on veterans at the veteran’s hospital in Clarksburg.
Source: United States Department of Justice News
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit today alleging that Peter McCarthy, who operates a group of residential sober homes through his company, Steps to Solutions Inc., subjected female residents to sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act.
Source: United States Department of Justice News
A federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey, returned a superseding indictment today charging a Florida owner of multiple telemedicine companies with orchestrating a health care fraud and illegal kickback scheme that involved the submission of over $784 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare. This is one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department. The superseding indictment also charges the defendant with concealing and disguising the proceeds of the scheme in order to avoid paying income taxes.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
A Washington State man was sentenced today to two years in prison for perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 disaster relief loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Source: United States Department of Justice News
TULSA, Okla. – A former Tulsa police officer was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to make a false statement to a firearms dealer when purchasing a pistol on behalf of her boyfriend, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.