Imperial Valley News Center
Medical Device Company Arthrex to Pay $16 Million to Resolve Kickback Allegations
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Boston, Massachusetts - Arthrex Inc., a Florida-based medical device company, has agreed to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks that caused the submission of false claims to the Medicare program.
Ukrainian Arrested and Charged with Ransomware Attack on Kaseya
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Dallas, Texas - The Justice Department announced Monday recent actions taken against two foreign nationals charged with deploying Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware to attack businesses and government entities in the United States.
Justice Department Files Complaint Against Professional Compounding Centers of America
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Houston, Texas - The Justice Department has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Professional Compounding Centers of America Inc. (PCCA), a Houston-based company that sells active pharmaceutical ingredients and other products and services to compounding pharmacies. The complaint alleges that PCCA reported fraudulent and inflated Average Wholesale Prices (AWPs) for its ingredients that bore no relationship to the actual prices at which it sold those ingredients to its pharmacy customers, thereby causing those pharmacies to submit inflated compound prescription claims to TRICARE, the federal health care program providing insurance for active duty military personnel, military retirees and military dependents.
Police Officers Indicted on Federal Civil Rights Charges for Assaulting Two Arrestees
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Shreveport, Louisiana - Three police officers with the Shreveport Police Department were indicted Friday on federal civil rights charges.
Seven Charged with Conspiracy, Animal Fighting and Gambling Charges in Cockfighting Operation
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Verbena, Alabama - A federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment last week charging seven Verbena, Alabama, residents with conspiracy to violate the Animal Welfare Act and to operate an illegal gambling business, among other violations, in connection with a large-scale cockfighting and fighting bird breeding operation.
Founder of Russian Bank Sentenced for Felony Tax Conviction Arising from Scheme to Evade Exit Tax while Renouncing his U.S. Citizenship
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San Francisco, California - The founder of a Russian bank was sentenced Friday for his felony conviction for filing a false tax return. As required under his plea agreement, prior to sentencing, Oleg Tinkov, aka Oleg Tinkoff, paid $508,936,184, more than double what he had sought to escape paying to the U.S. Treasury through a scheme to renounce his U.S. citizenship and conceal from the IRS large stock gains that he knew were reportable. This includes $248,525,339 in taxes, statutory interest on that tax and a nearly $100 million fraud penalty. Tinkov was additionally fined $250,000, which is the maximum allowed by statute, and sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release.
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