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The U.S. Justice Department announced a $20.25 million agreement with Sanford, a Midwest-based health care organization. The deal resolved allegations that Sanford knew it was participating in a kickback scheme with one of its top surgeons, according to...
When a doctor becomes a local or national celebrity, that makes federal charges of health care fraud all the more visible in the media. Besides the possibility of massive fines and even prison time, the damage to a physician's reputation due to federal charges can...
Federal authorities in New York have charged five people, including a former NYPD police officer, with operating a drug ring in Manhattan and the Westchester County area. Three of the defendants were taken into custody on Feb. 18, and another individual is already in...
The former mayor of Cohoes, New York, was sentenced to probation after a conviction in a wire fraud case, avoiding prison time in the matter. The former mayor was accused of taking campaign contributions for personal use, and he pleaded guilty to one count of wire...
The Circuit did not release any precedential opinions in criminal cases this week, and issued only a few summary orders, none of them granting our clients any affirmative relief. Second Circuit On Monday, in United States v. Nunez Garcia (An The Circuit did not...
New York residents and others who lost something of value because of another person's false or misleading statements could be considered victims of fraud. A fraud victim may bring a civil lawsuit against the person who engaged in deceptive activity, and a government...
Individuals in New York and throughout the country could face jail time and other penalties for engaging in insider trading. However, there is no law that specifically says what insider trading is. A panel led by a former federal prosecutor says that the government...
As CA2’s prior reversals of former NYS Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (707 Fed.Appx. 733 (2017)), and House Speaker Sheldon Silver (864 F.3d 102 (2017), had previously shown, prosecuting politicians for bribery schemes, and instructing juries on the parameters of...
A New York man who owned several nursing home and rehabilitation facilities entered a guilty plea to multiple charges in a Bridgeport federal court. The 71-year-old acknowledged that he stole $4.1 million from the Bridgeport Health Care Center pension plan between...
It was another uneventful week in the Circuit, with only a handful of mundane summary orders. There were a few interesting decisions in the state’s First, Second, and Third Department’s with two of them—Martinez and Arana—reminding us that, for guilty pleading...