Aug. 13, 2020

Two Individuals Sentenced For Bribery, Theft And/Or Embezzlement Of Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced the sentencings of Bristow, Oklahoma resident, George Phillip Tiger, age 70, and Aaron Dewayne Terry, age 64, of Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr. Tiger was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment, 2 years’ supervised release, and ordered to pay a $10,000.00 fine for bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(1)(B). Mr. Terry was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment, 3 years’ supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,250,000 for the theft and embezzlement of funds from business entities wholly owned by the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town (“AQTT”). Mr. Terry was also sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment, 1 year supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $105,068.58 for federal tax charges. Mr. Terry’s sentencings are to run concurrently.

Aug. 10, 2020

Former Vance AFB Major Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Taking Kickbacks Involving Compounding Pharmacies

ROMEATRIUS MOSS, 40, a nurse and former Air Force Major stationed at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to serve 24 months in prison for health care fraud in which she accepted kickbacks for referring TRICARE beneficiaries to pharmacies furnishing compounded drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. Moss was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $622,459.00.

Aug. 10, 2020

Forest Park Anesthesiologist Sentenced to 5.5 Years in Federal Prison

An anesthesiologist at the center of the $200 million Forest Park Medical Center fraud has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $82.9 million in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.

Aug. 6, 2020

Former Federal Government Employee and Active Duty Soldier at Camp Mabry in Austin Admit to Stealing over $1 Million in Military Equipment

In Austin this week, an active duty soldier and a former federal government employee at Camp Mabry admitted to stealing and unlawfully selling more than $1 million worth of items from the military installation in Austin, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.

Aug. 4, 2020

Fifteenth person charged with theft in ongoing Social Security benefits fraud investigation

Napoleon Crawford, 52, of Mason, was arrested and appeared in U.S. District Court here on July 30 to face charges in a two-count indictment alleging that Crawford has stolen more than $80,000 in Social Security and Department of Defense benefits earned by his father, a retired Navy officer who died in 2016.

July 31, 2020

Five Defendants Sentenced To Federal Prison

Over the course of five days, Jerry Wayne Wilkerson, 39, Michael Chatfield, 30, Kasey Nicholson, 34, Billy Hindman, 38, and Jayson Montgomery, 39, were sentenced by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga, to prison terms for their roles in a scheme to defraud the federal government and insurance companies.

July 31, 2020

Mobile-Area Doctor Charged in Prescription Drug Billing Scheme

A Mobile-area Alabama doctor was indicted on Tuesday in a long-running investigation into a prescription drug-billing scheme involving a Haleyville, Ala.-based pharmacy, Northside Pharmacy doing business as Global Compounding Pharmacy. U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Derrick L. Jackson, Defense Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent in Charge Cynthia Bruce, United States Postal Inspector in Charge, Houston Division Adrian Gonzalez, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey announced the charges.

July 30, 2020

Health Care Executive Sentenced to 20 Years in TRICARE Fraud Case

The health care executive at the center of a $70 million compounded pain and scar cream fraud has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. In December 2019, after six days of deliberation, a federal jury convicted John Paul Cooper, 56, of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, one count of receipt of illegal kickbacks, and six counts of payment of illegal kickbacks. Mr. Cooper was sentenced Tuesday by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn.

July 29, 2020

Delaware Man Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Federal Government Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars In Small Business Fraud Case

A Delaware man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud in connection with false representations that he made in a final report to the United States Air Force.

July 28, 2020

Harvard University Professor Charged with Tax Offenses

The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was charged today in a superseding indictment with tax offenses for failing to report income he received from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 61, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston on two counts of making and subscribing a false income tax return and two counts of failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts (FBAR) with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In June 2020, Lieber was indicted on two counts of making false statements to federal authorities. Lieber was arrested on Jan. 28, 2020.