Clearwater Criminal Defense Law Blog

A Washington, D.C. man is facing Federal fraud charges on allegations that he submitted false information to a bank in an effort at fraudulently obtaining Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan.The 40-year-old man allegedly submitted a number of fake and fraudulent documents to the bank asking for a pair of loans totaling over $40,000. They say he asked for the loans to help a construction firm he owned.Per investigators, the loans were supported by fraudulent 1099-MISCs that purported to show payments of tens of thousands of dollars. However, they say the social security numbers used on...

A Georgia-based healthcare firm has agreed to pay the government $122 million to settle claims that it billed Medicare, Medicaide, and TRICARE for unnecessary treatments and allegedly paying illegal financial inducements to beneficiaries of those programs. Investigators say that, between early 2006 and the end of 2018 the company admitted for treatment beneficiaries of government healthcare programs whose treatments would not ordinarily be billable to those programs. They are also accused of not properly discharging patients in their care who no longer needed it. The Georgia firm allegedly...

A Broward County man is facing Federal fraud charges after investigators say he used Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to enable an attempt to defraud Medicare. Per investigators, the 37-year-old man submitted multiple applications for PPP loans to local banks and financial institutions earlier this year under the name of a durable medical equipment firm. They say the firm routinely submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for DMEs that were either unnecessary, ineligible for reimbursement through Medicare, or not properly delivered to the beneficiary. The defendant was the...

An Oklahoma orthopedic hospital and several related individuals and entities have agreed to pay the Federal and state governments $72.3 million to settle claims that it defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE while violating the False Claims Act by allegedly paying illicit kickbacks.Federal investigators say the defendants were engaged in a multi-layered conspiracy for several years. From 2006 through 2018, the hospital defendants allegedly gave its physician group and two individual physicians cheap or free office space, above-market compensation for services, preferential access to...

The former chief executive officer of a Tennessee pain management firm will spend three-and-a-half years in Federal prison on a conviction for his alleged involvement in an illegal kickback conspiracy that defrauded Medicare of around $4 million. Per investigators, the 42-year-old man established a referral racket with another individual whereby his firm allegedly received referral fees for Medicare durable medical equipment orders from a manufacturer of DME's. Allegedly in order to mask the payments, the defendant allegedly created a shell company in his wife's name. Prosecutors say the...