July 12, 2019

Former Army Corps Employee Pleads Guilty to Lying to Law Enforcement

A former employee of the United States Army Corps of Engineers pled guilty to making false statements to law enforcement agents.

July 11, 2019

Justice Department Obtains $1.4 Billion from Reckitt Benckiser Group in Largest Recovery in a Case Concerning an Opioid Drug in United States History

Global consumer goods conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB Group) has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to resolve its potential criminal and civil liability related to a federal investigation of the marketing of the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone. The resolution – the largest recovery by the United States in a case concerning an opioid drug – includes the forfeiture of proceeds totaling $647 million, civil settlements with the federal government and the states totaling $700 million, and an administrative resolution with the Federal Trade Commission for $50 million.

July 3, 2019

Former NSA Subcontractor Pleads Guilty To Submitting False Claims For Hours Worked On Government Contracts

Kyle Duran Smego, age 40, of Raleigh, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on July 2, 2019, to submitting false claims to the United States, specifically for inflating the number of hours he claimed to have worked on two government contracts.

July 2, 2019

Former State Delegate Sentenced for Role in Defrauding United States

A former member of the Virginia General Assembly was sentenced today to two and a half years in prison for his role in a conspiracy that resulted in the fraudulent award of over $80 million in government contracts.

July 2, 2019

CEO, CFO and Company Sentenced in Massive Pharmaceutical Scheme to Defraud, Launder Money and Obstruct Justice

United States Attorney William M. Mcswain announced that Dean Volkes, 55, Donna Fallon, 54, both of Long Island, NY, and Devos Ltd., doing business as Guaranteed Returns, also located in Long Island, were sentenced to five years' incarceration, one year and one days' incarceration, and five years' probation, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Patrese Tucker.

June 28, 2019

Defense Contractor Agrees to Pay $4,200,000 to Settle Allegations of Submitting False Claims to The United States Air Force

PAE Applied Technologies, LLC, has agreed to pay $4,200,000 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States Air Force, announced Timothy J. Downing, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

June 24, 2019

Two Physicians and Two Registered Nurses Indicted in Mississippi Compounding Pharmacy Fraud Scheme

Two Mississippi-licensed physicians and two Mississippi-licensed registered nurses were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their roles in a multimillion dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving U.S. military, veterans and their respective family members, as well as private health care benefit programs Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi and United Healthcare of Mississippi.

June 20, 2019

Defense Supply Companies Resolve False Claims Act Liability for Substituting Surplus Parts

United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that two defense supply companies, and a married couple who operated them, have agreed to resolve the government’s claims that they supplied non-conforming parts to the military in violation of the False Claims Act. The government described its claims in its federal court complaint filed today.

June 17, 2019

Granite Bay Man Sentenced For Multi-Million Dollar Product Substitution Fraud On Federal Government Agencies

U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller sentenced Jim A. Meron, 54, of Granite Bay, today to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release on two counts of wire fraud arising out of a government-procurement fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. As part of the sentence, the Court ordered Meron to pay restitution of $1,622,729.13 to dozens of victims. The Court also entered a final order forfeiting more than $1.7 million in assets seized during the investigation of Meron's crimes.

June 14, 2019

United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Two Compounding Pharmacies and Their Owner For Submitting Inflated Claims and Improperly Waiving Patient Copayments

The Department of Justice announced today that the United States has filed a complaint in intervention against Smart Pharmacy Inc., and SP2 LLC, two compounding pharmacies located in Jacksonville, Florida. The complaint alleges that the pharmacies improperly included the drug aripiprazole, an atypical antipsychotic drug, in compounded pain creams in order to boost the pharmacies' reimbursement for the prescriptions and that the pharmacies routinely waived patient copayment obligations. The government has also brought claims against Gregory Balotin, a co-owner of the pharmacies, for his involvement in the alleged schemes.