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April 30, 2015

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ordered Christopher Valois and Cynthia Wong, residents of Irvine, California, and their companies, Bertram Trade LLC and Churchhill Commodities Trading LLC, to pay $1.1 million for fraud and registration violations.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, Regulatory Violations,

April 29, 2015

Lehigh Cement agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve allegations it violated the Clean Water Act by discharging millions of gallons daily of quarry process water and stormwater polluted with thousands of pounds of sediment, and hundreds of pounds of selenium and other toxic metals, into Permanente Creek, a tributary to San Francisco Bay. CA

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud,

April 29, 2015

The trustees of the Victor E. Perley Fund, a private foundation for the benefit of underprivileged children, agreed to pay $1.025 million to settle charges the board allowed the foundation’s new leader, Richard A. Basini, to fund his own interests and those of a fellow trustee, James J. Cahill, resulting in the Perley Fund’s purchase of a million-dollar Southampton home that Basini used as his private residence. NY

April 29, 2015

A federal court in North Carolina ordered James Harvey Mason of Graham, North Carolina to pay $5.5 million for commodity pool fraud.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,

April 28, 2015

Life Focus Center of Charlestown, Inc., a former nonprofit that provided day habilitation services to individuals with developmental disabilities, agreed to pay more than $94,000 to settle claims it violated the Massachusetts False Claims Act by billing the state’s Medicaid program (MassHealth) for services not provided. MA

Tagged in: FCA State, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud,

April 27, 2015

A federal court in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ordered Inter-Global Currency & Precious Metals, LLC of Pompano Beach, Florida, and its owner, manager, and controlling person Stavros Papastavrou, of Delray Beach, Florida, to pay a civil monetary penalty of $100,000 and a restitution award of $447,342 for engaging in illegal, off-exchange precious metal transactions.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, Regulatory Violations,

April 27, 2015

The CFTC charged My Global Leverage, LLC and its owner and managing member Toney Blondo Eggleston, who resides in Newport Coast, California, with engaging in illegal, off-exchange transactions in precious metals with retail customers on a leveraged, margined, or financed basis.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, Regulatory Violations,

April 24, 2015

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced a lawsuit against a group of interrelated companies accused of violating Ohio’s consumer protection laws by failing to honor consumers’ rights to cancel travel club memberships sold at hotel sales presentations in Toledo, Cleveland, and Columbus. The lawsuit names the following companies as defendants: A2Z Vacations LLC, Great Quest Travel Inc. (d/b/a One and Only Travel), World Wide Travel Resources Inc., Travel Supplier of America Inc. and Universal Concepts Inc. OH

April 23, 2015

Grady Health System agreed to pay $2,950,000 to settle claims it inaccurately coded claims for neo-natal intensive care unit patients, resulting in alleged damages to the Georgia Medicaid program. GA

Tagged in: FCA State, Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud,

April 23, 2015

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman filed lawsuits against Portofino Spas, LLC and Total Tan, Inc., accusing both franchises of false advertising by denying or minimizing scientific evidence linking tanning to an increased cancer risk; promoting indoor tanning as a safe way to reap the benefits of vitamin D and other purported health benefits; and asserting the safety of indoor tanning compared to tanning outdoors. NY
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