A Fort Myers doctor has apparently admitted to defrauding taxpayer-supported Medicare and Tricare by receiving kickbacks for prescribing certain durable medical equipment and pain medications. The doctor pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to taking more than $470,000 in illegal payments from the supplies and pharmacy businesses between 2010 and…
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…
Pasco County authorities have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him with lewd and lascivious molestation at a county library. The man accused was a library volunteer when the incident was reported but has since been terminated.According to a Sheriff’s Office report, a 14-year-old boy claims the man “enticed him…
Sarasota County deputies arrested 81 people on drug-related charges in an investigation called “Operation Spring Cleaning” on May 4. Deputies said they confiscated more than 18 pounds of controlled substances and four firearms. Out of the 81 people arrested, 77 were drug traffickers, according to reports. The investigation focused on…
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…
Former Alachua County Manager Lee Niblock was booked on a misdemeanor battery charge in Collier County early Thursday evening, according to reports. Niblock, 64, is charged with a misdemeanor battery in Marco Island — a city of 16,000 — where he was city manager for about three months following his…
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…
A 35-year-old unemployed Gainesville man is accused of devising a scheme to use dark web-bought identification information to rent hotel rooms and then sublease the rooms to people for illicit activity, according to Gainesville police. The man faces 11 fraud-related charges and two counts of using a communications device —…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested a Dade City man for allegedly possessing hundreds of files of child pornography and possibly accessing thousands more. A Pasco County Sheriff’s Office arrest report states investigators found 274 suspected child porn files on the man’s laptop. They allegedly reviewed 22 of those…
An Arizona medical company that serves thousands of cancer patients is battling a federal lawsuit alleging that it ripped off Medicare and other government programs with millions of dollars in fraudulent charges. The whistleblower complaint moving through U.S. District Court says principals at Arizona Center for Cancer Care improperly collected…