Medical insurance fraud
FBI in the News
Press Releases from National Press Office
- Foreign Govt Agent Charges
Four Venezuelans and an Uruguayan national were charged with acting and conspiring to act as agents of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States. - Exec Health Care Fraud
The owner of a Miami health care company has been convicted on charges of defrauding the Medicare program. - Prescription Overdose Charges
A Haysville, Kansas, physician was charged with illegally distributing prescription drugs to his patients, directly causing the deaths of at least four of them. - Exploiting Children Sentence
Dwain P. McCoy, 42, of Lawton was sentenced to serve 360 months in prison for sexual exploitation of two minor children. - Director Names Executive AD
J. Stephen Tidwell has been named Executive Assistant Director of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch. - $25M Investor Fraud Sentence
Anthony M. Ramunno, 47, of Alpharetta, Georgia, was sentenced in a multi-million dollar investment fraud scheme that bilked dozens of investors around the United States. - Laser Shone at Helicopter (pdf)
Jared James Dooley, 25, and his girlfriend, Kendra Christine Snow, 25, both of Bakersfield, California, were arrested and charged with interfering with the safe operation of a Kern County Sheriff's Department helicopter by shining a hand-held laser into the cockpit. - 3 Sentenced in Health Fraud
Jose Tomas Iglesias, Leslie Gonzalez, and Marco Marrero were sentenced to prison terms of 57, 20, and 18 months respectively. The three pled guilty in August 2007 to conspiring to defraud Medicare. - WA Sex-Trafficking Juveniles
Mark McGlover, 25, and his mother, Cynthia McGlover, 48, both of Inglewood, California, were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle in connection with the sex trafficking of juveniles. - FL Mortgage Fraud Scheme (pdf)
Robert W. Hulbert, Jr., 46, of Jacksonville was sentenced to three years in prison for his participation in a mortgage fraud scheme. - Repeat Sex Offender Sentenced
Jerry Wayne Ramey, 40, a previously convicted sex offender from Meridian, Mississippi, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for possessing multiple images of child pornography he acquired over the Internet. - Investment Adviser Pleads (pdf)
Marc Freedman, 49, of North Potomac, Maryland, pled guilty to wire fraud and money laundering related to a scheme to defraud investors and use the money for his personal benefit. - Exec Tax Fraud Sentence
The former president and co-owner of Domecq Importers Inc. of Larchmont, New York, and Old Greenwich, Connecticut, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to commit tax fraud and to defraud Allied Domecq. - Film Executive Bribery Arrest
A Los Angeles film executive and his spouse were arrested on allegations of making corrupt payments to a Thai government official in order to obtain lucrative contracts to run an international film festival in Bangkok, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. - Investment Exec Sentenced (pdf)
John J. Lawbaugh, 38, of Poolesville, Maryland, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for wire fraud, theft from a registered investment company, and income tax evasion. - Supporting Foreign Terrorists
Haji Subandi, 70, a citizen of the Republic of Indonesia, was sentenced to 37 months on charges related to supporting a foreign terrorist organization. - Investment Scam Charges (pdf)
A Santa Barbara man was indicted on federal fraud charges related to a securities fraud scheme that took more than $10 million from victims while he was free on bond in a separate case involving false statements to a bank. - $20M Blue Cross Settlement
The U.S. government and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island reached an agreement under which the insurer will pay $20 million to resolve matters related to the government's ongoing public corruption investigation. - Juvenile Prostitution Plea
Juan Mendez pleaded guilty to two counts of commercial sex trafficking. Mendez admitted to providing two juvenile girls to engage in commercial sex acts knowing that force, fraud, and coercion had been used. - Jury Duty Scam Alert
Individuals identifying themselves as U.S. court employees have been telephoning citizens and advising them that they failed to report for jury duty, then asking for personal information. - Toledo Terrorism Charges
A federal grand jury returned a new indictment charging two of the defendants in the pending Toledo terrorism case with conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas. - White Supremacist Jailed
Travis D. Massey of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for the racially motivated beating of James Ballesteros on New Year's Eve of 2002. - Abramoff Case Sentencing
Italia Federici, the former president of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, has been sentenced for obstructing the Senate's investigation into lobbyist Jack A. Abramoff.
