Clearwater Criminal Defense Law Blog

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...

A major New Jersey pharmaceutical firm has agreed to pay over $642 million to the Federal government to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act (a/k/a "Lincoln's Law") for allegedly paying kickbacks to doctors and allegedly paying illicit copayments to Medicare beneficiaries for those taking two of its drugs.Per investigators, the firm allegedly learned of several hundred patients who were taking a multiple sclerosis drug in late 2012 who would soon become eligible for Medicare the following year. They say the firm helped transition those individuals to Medicare Part D knowing...

A Texas man and wife were sentenced in Federal court today after a guilty verdict and a guilty plea this spring was handed down on charges that they committed $21.8 million in fraud against the Federal government. The 75-year-old man was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Sim Lake of the Southern District of Texas to ten years in prison, and his 68-year-old wife was sentenced to 30 days of home confinement and three years of probation. The husband was convicted in March of conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to commit money...