A 49-year-old man was sentenced in Tampa federal court Wednesday to six years and six months in federal prison for his apparent involvement in what officials say was a $400,000 nationwide postal stamp hustle. According to court records, the man pleaded guilty to theft of government funds in September 2019.…
Six people were arrested in a drug raid Tuesday after neighbors complained about needles in their yards and suspicious traffic in and out of a home on Tanager Road. According to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, a search warrant was executed at the home, and investigators found hypodermic needles,…
A Clearwater doctor has pleaded guilty to one count of health-care fraud and has agreed to surrender her DEA registration number, her Florida medical license and to a permanent exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to the justice department. The 66-year-old woman violated a Florida law that requires doctors…
A Key West firefighter was caught with cocaine at work, according to police. The 26-year-old was arrested Friday on a felony charge of cocaine possession after a police dog alerted officers to a locker inside a bedroom where the man was staying. The K-9 also sniffed out the man’s truck…
A Columbus doctor has been indicted as part of the nation’s largest health-care fraud enforcement action by the federal government, according to reports. The 44-year-old Columbus podiatrist was indicted on June 19 in the Southern District of Florida and charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States…
A physician and two nurses have been convicted of health care fraud in what authorities claim was a $12 million plus Medicare billing scam. On Friday, a federal jury in Dallas convicted a 70-year-old doctor and a 47-year-old nurse of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Both were also convicted…
Todd Macaluso, a San Diego lawyer who once represented Casey Anthony, was sentenced to federal prison for 15 years for plotting to pilot a plane full of cocaine. He was sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, months after he was found guilty of being part of an international drug ring.…
A chain of podiatry clinics in St. Louis settled with the federal government for $125,000 for Medicare fraud on false claims from 2010 to 2016. The clinics apparently knowingly billed Medicare for medically necessary toenail removals, when the services provided were routine nail clippings that are not covered by the…
The Department of Justice recently announced that a Las Vegas medical practice will pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act through illegal billing. The settlement involved allegations that from January 1, 2006 through May 31, 2011, the practice violated the False Claims Act by…
A 27-year-old Sorrento man was arrested on child pornography charges Friday, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The man was booked into the Lake County Jail with bail set at $50,000, the FDLE said. According to an agency spokeswoman, agents began investigating the man in February after determining…