Dec. 13, 2024

Former Department of Defense Deputy Chief Sentenced to Federal Prison for Dogfighting Charges

U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Frederick Douglass Moorefield, Jr., age 64, Arnold, Maryland, to 18 months in federal prison, six months of home detention, and a $20,000 fine, followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in a multi-state dogfighting conspiracy. In addition to the fine, Judge Bennett ordered Moorefield to pay a forfeiture money judgment of $21,576.

Dec. 13, 2024

United States Settles False Claims Act Allegations Against Pharmaceutical Distributor for Paying Kickbacks Through Inventory Management Systems

ASD Specialty Healthcare LLC (ASD), doing business as Besse Medical (Besse), has agreed to pay $1.67 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act by providing inventory management systems to retina practices at no cost to induce them to purchase drugs from Besse. ASD, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, distributes specialty medical and pharmaceutical products nationwide, including ophthalmological injections that treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).

Dec. 12, 2024

New York-Based Businessman Admits $5.3 Million Health Care Fraud And Kickback Conspiracy

A New York-based businessman admitted his role in a health care fraud and illegal kickback conspiracy, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today. Mansinh Chaudhari, aka “Monsi Koova,” 55, of Illinois, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael E. Farbiarz in Newark federal court to an information charging him with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to violate the Federal Anti-Kickback statute.

Dec. 12, 2024

Maryland Woman Sentenced for Role in Million Dollar Fraud Scheme at New Orleans Marine Forces Reserve Facility

United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on December 10, 2024, KAMILA HORAKOVA DUDLEY (“DUDLEY”), age 43, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was sentenced to 3 years probation, payment of a $100.00 mandatory special assessment fee, and restitution in the amount of $473,702.43 by United States District Judge Greg G. Guidry. DUDLEY previously pled guilty to misprision of a felony, namely, wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4.

Dec. 11, 2024

2 Defendants Charged in U.S. Courts as Part of Global Crackdown on ‘Booter’ Services Offering Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks

The Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 27 internet domains associated with some of the world’s leading DDoS-for-hire services, as well as criminal charges against two defendants who allegedly oversaw computer attack platforms commonly called “booter” services. Federal law enforcement is now seizing the websites that allowed paying users to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet.

Dec. 6, 2024

Chinese National and U.S. Legal Permanent Resident Charged for Illegal Scheme to Export Controlled Data and Defraud the Department of Defense

A four-count indictment was unsealed today charging Hang Sun, also known as Cody Sun, with conspiracy, wire fraud, smuggling, and a violation of the Arms Export Control Act for his role in an illegal scheme to send export-controlled defense-related technical data to China and to unlawfully supply the Department of Defense (DOD) with Chinese-origin rare earth magnets for aviation systems and military items.

Dec. 4, 2024

United States and State of Oklahoma File False Claims Act Complaint Against OKC Laboratory and Director

The United States and the State of Oklahoma filed a complaint under the federal False Claims Act and the Oklahoma Medicaid False Claims Act against Coordinated Care Health Solutions, LLC d/b/a HunterCare Coordinated Care Health Solutions (CCHS) and Eric P. Wallis, Ph.D., for submitting or causing the submission of false and/or fraudulent claims for payment to certain Government Health Benefit Programs (Government Programs) for testing services that were not rendered or not reimbursable. The Government Programs harmed by the alleged conduct are Medicare, Oklahoma Medicaid, the TRICARE health plan, the Civilian Health and Medical Programs of the VA, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

Dec. 4, 2024

Podiatrist and Patient Recruiter Sentenced for $8.5M Compounding Fraud Scheme

A podiatrist and a patient recruiter were sentenced to 45 months and 60 months in prison, respectively, and ordered to pay over $7 million in restitution for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently bill TRICARE — the health care program for U.S. service members and their families — for compounded creams that were medically unnecessary and procured through kickbacks and bribes.

Dec. 3, 2024

U.S. Attorney's Office Hosts Meeting Of The Western District Health Care Fraud Working Group

U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced today the annual meeting of the Western District’s Health Care Fraud Working Group, a partnership of federal and state agencies focused on combating health care fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars in the Western District of North Carolina.

Dec. 3, 2024

Active-duty Army soldiers charged and convicted for obtaining fraudulent COVID-19 related loans

Two active-duty U.S. Army soldiers pled guilty to, and a third soldier was charged with, obtaining fraudulent loans through a COVID-19 relief program while stationed at Fort Gregg-Adams. Major Eduwell Jenkins, 42, pled guilty today to defrauding the Small Business Administration (SBA) by obtaining a fraudulent loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Also today, a federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment charging Sergeant First Class Crispin Antonio Abad, 42, with obtaining two fraudulent PPP loans while on active duty. On Nov. 5, Sergeant Malaysia Stubbs, 30, pled guilty to obtaining a fraudulent PPP loan.