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Dec. 13, 2022
United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Chiropractor, Modern Vascular Office-Based Labs and Modern Vascular Corporate Entities
The United States filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Yury Gampel, a chiropractor, 15 Modern Vascular office-based labs located throughout the United States primarily owned by Gampel, and five Modern Vascular-affiliated companies owned by Gampel, for engaging in allegedly illegal financial relationships and transactions. Office-based labs, such as the ones named as defendants here, are an extension of a physician's office where physicians conduct examinations and procedures on an ambulatory basis.
Dec. 12, 2022
Two sentenced to federal prison in separate cases for fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funding
A former soldier paid for submitting false information to obtain COVID~ 19 relief funding and a Camden County woman who received funding after providing fake documents have been sentenced to federal prison.
Dec. 8, 2022
Florida Man Charged with Conspiring to Pay Kickbacks and Commit Health Care Fraud in $64 Million Scheme
A Florida man was charged for his role in conspiracies to pay illegal kickbacks and to commit health care fraud that caused at least $64 million in losses to federal health care benefit programs, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today.
New Jersey Business Owner Sentenced to Five Years of Incarceration for Defrauding Over 75 Victims of More Than $2.7 Million in Nationwide Scheme to Sell Fraudulent Coronavirus Disinfectant Products
A New Jersey man was sentenced in connection with charges stemming from his sale of more than $2.7 million worth of unregistered pesticides to numerous victims based on false representations that these products were pesticides registered with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and on EP A's "List N: Disinfectants for Use Against SARS-Co V, 2" that EPA deemed to be effective against SARS-Co V, 2 ( Coronavirus ).
Dec. 7, 2022
Former Sarasota Pain Doctor Sentenced In Health Care Fraud Kickback Conspiracy
U.S. District Judge William H. Jung has sentenced Dr. Steven Chun (59, Sarasota) for conspiring to pay and receive kickbacks and bribes. Chun was sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $278,900, the proceeds of his offenses.
Dec. 6, 2022
Three Individuals Plead Guilty to Bribery Scheme
A Virginia couple and Missouri man pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a public official.
Architect of multi-million-dollar education fraud involving scuba dive shops sentenced to years in federal prison
A defendant who supervised a scheme to defraud more than $6 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) education programs through scuba diving schools has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison.
Dec. 5, 2022
Government Contractor Agrees to Pay over $500,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Obsidian Solutions Group, LLC (Obsidian), located in Fredericksburg, has agreed to pay $510,991.08 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for labor performed by personnel that did not meet contractual requirements.
Dec. 2, 2022
Former Government Official Charged In Conspiracy To Defraud Government Program For Disadvantaged Small Business Owners
The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James A. Coccagna, age 67, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was charged by criminal information on one count of conspiracy to commit violations of the Major Fraud Act.
Former Senior U.S. Navy Employee Sentenced for Bribery Conspiracy and Lying to Investigators
The former Director of Operations of the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) Office in Busan, South Korea, was sentenced today to five years in prison for his role in a bribery conspiracy and lying to federal investigators.