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March 19, 2014

Marubeni Corp., a Japanese trading company involved in power generation, pled guilty to violating the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and agreed to pay a criminal fine of $88M for its participation in a scheme to bribe high-ranking government officials in Indonesia to secure a lucrative power project. DOJ

Tagged in: FCPA,

March 19, 2014

Toyota agreed to pay $1.2B to resolve allegations of criminal wire fraud for misleading consumers by concealing and making deceptive statements about two safety issues affecting its vehicles which caused a type of unintended acceleration. It is the largest penalty of its kind ever imposed on an automotive company. DOJ

Tagged in: Auto Safety,

March 18, 2014

California attorney Christopher Rusch was sentenced to serve 10 months in prison for helping his clients Stephen M. Kerr and Michael Quiel, both businessmen from Phoenix, hide millions of dollars in secret offshore bank accounts at UBS and Pictet & Cie in Switzerland. DOJ

Tagged in: Abusive Tax Shelters,

March 18, 2014

Alex Wisidagama, formerly employed by Glenn Defense Marine Asia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US for his role in a scheme to overbill the US Navy for ship husbanding services. His plea is the second in an expanding investigation into acts of alleged fraud and bribery committed by GDMA and several US Navy officers and personnel. DOJ

Tagged in: Defense Contract Fraud,

March 18, 2014

American Family Care Inc., a network of walk-in medical clinics with offices in Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, agreed to pay $1.2M to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly submitted claims to Medicare for outpatient office visits that were billed at a higher rate than was appropriate. The settlement resolves a qui tam lawsuit filed by a former employee of American Family Care under the whistleblower provision of the False Claims Act. DOJ

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Provider Fraud, Upcoding, Whistleblower Case,

March 14, 2014

Isabel Medina, the owner and operator of the Miami medical clinic Merfi Corp., was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison and pay $8.5M for her participation in multiple health care fraud schemes totaling $20M. DOJ

March 13, 2014

Memorial Hospital, the operator of an acute care hospital facility in Ohio, agreed to pay $8.5M to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians. DOJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Hospital Fraud,

March 12, 2014

A federal jury in Houston convicted two owners of a former Houston mental health care company, Spectrum Care, several of its employees and the owners of certain Houston group care homes for their participation in a $97M Medicare fraud scheme. DOJ

March 11, 2014

Generic pharmaceutical giant Teva Pharmaceuticals and its IVAX subsidiary have agreed to pay $27.6M for allegedly violating the False Claims Act by making payments to induce prescriptions of an anti-psychotic drug for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. DOJ

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Pharma Fraud,

March 7, 2014

Ocean shipping companies Sea Star Line and Horizon Lines agreed to pay $1.9M and $1.5M, respectively, to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by fixing the price of government cargo transportation contracts between the continental US and Puerto Rico, the Department of Justice announced today. The allegations were first raised in a qui tam lawsuit filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. DOJ

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

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