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November 19, 2018

Teymour Khoubian of Beverly Hills, California, has pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns which concealed offshore accounts he held and earned income from.  Khoubian had declined to disclose the accounts under the IRS's Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program.  As part of his guilty plea, Khoubian agreed to a penalty of $7.7 million and an additional $612,310 in restitution to the IRS. Khoubian faces a prison sentence of three years.  DOJ

Tagged in: Abusive Tax Shelters, Criminal Proceedings, Tax Fraud,

November 16, 2018

A New Jersey-based doctor, Dr. Bernard Ogon, has been charged with participating in a compound pharmacy fraud that caused over $20 million in losses to health care benefit programs, including $3 million in losses to TRICARE. In exchange for a per-prescription payment, Ogon allegedly signed prescriptions that were pre-filled by telemedicine companies on behalf of patients he never saw. On multiple occasions, the prescriptions were for pain and scar creams that were not medically necessary, and were in fact exorbitantly expensive when made by a compound pharmacy. Ogon was also accused of writing prescriptions for patients in states that he was not licensed to practice in; if convicted, he faces a maximum of 10 years in prison. USAO NJ

Tagged in: Compounding Pharmacy Fraud, Criminal Proceedings, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Other Government Health Programs,

November 16, 2018

The owner of Virginia-based Family Discount Pharmacy, Jerry R. Harper, Jr., was sentenced to 41 months in prison for failing to account for and pay more than $5 million in employment tax liabilities, despite withholding such taxes from employee wages.  Between 1998 and 2014, Harper filed only one quarterly employment tax return for the pharmacy.  DOJ

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Employment Tax Fraud, Tax Fraud,

November 16, 2018

Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas Inc. has pleaded guilty for conspiring to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act in connection with its importation of construction equipment from Korea with engines that failed to meet U.S. emissions standards.  Hyundai will pay a $1.95 million criminal fine.  In reports to the EPA, Hyundai intentionally understated the number of noncompliant engines it imported.  DOJ

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Environmental Fraud,

November 14, 2018

After pleading guilty last year, the owner of two health clinics in Detroit has been sentenced to 160 months in prison and ordered to pay over $6 million for defrauding Medicare. Along with multiple co-defendants, Jacklyn Price allegedly took part in a scheme to bill Medicare for services that were obtained through kickbacks, not medically necessary, not actually provided, or provided by an unlicensed practitioner. Her co-defendants, Millicent Traylor, Muhammad Qazi, and Christina Kimbrough, were all sentenced in September. DOJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Criminal Proceedings, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medical Billing Fraud, Medicare,

November 13, 2018

Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky were sentenced following their guilty pleas for conspiracy to illegally export components for the production of night-vision and thermal devices to Russia in violation of the Arms Export Control Act, and for laundering the proceeds of the scheme.  The defendants purchased products using their U.S. business, Hitek International, representing that the products would not be exported.  The couple then shipped the products to Moscow-based Infratech using a variety of front companies and shipping methods.  They were sentenced to 108 months and 18 months, respectively, were assessed a $1 million fine, and forfeited $223 thousand.  DOJ

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Trade Agreements,

November 8, 2018

Renee Christine Borunda of Greensboro, North Carolina, was sentenced to prison and ordered to make restitution to the North Carolina Medicaid program for conduct that defrauded Medicaid.  Borunda, who worked for a behavioral health services provider, used a therapist's personal information to submit false bills for behavioral services, claiming that services were provided to over 200 different Medicaid recipients when no such services were rendered.  USAO EDNC; NC

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Provider Fraud,

November 7, 2018

Convicted of defrauding the Medicare program, former Houston-area healthcare clinics owner Joy Aneke was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,760,464.57. Aneke submitted false claims for medical services that were either not performed or not authorized by a licensed physician. None of Aneke’s clinics even had equipment necessary to provide the services -- allergy testing, complex cystometrograms, anal/urinary muscle studies, and others -- for which Aneke billed Medicare. Additionally, Aneke used “recruiters” or “marketers” to encourage patients to visit her clinics, and instructed co-defendant Maureen Henshall to pay patients illegal kickbacks. DOJ  

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Healthcare Fraud, Medical Billing Fraud, Medicare, Provider Fraud,

November 1, 2018

The CEO and COO of Smart Lab LLC have been sentenced to a cumulative 10 years in prison for defrauding TRICARE of millions of dollars. CEO H. Hamilton Wayne and COO Justin Morgan Wayne allegedly paid kickbacks to substance abuse treatment centers in exchange for using Smart Lab for expensive confirmatory urinalysis testing. In some cases, treatment center patients were required to submit three medically unnecessary samples a week, but exempt from paying co-payments, co-insurance, or deductibles that should've been mandatory. Altogether, they have been ordered to pay restitution amounting to $2,897,389.50. Separately, H. Wayne has been ordered to pay $104,344, and J. Wayne has been ordered to pay $20,000. A third defendant, Smart Lab sales representative Lanny Fried, remains to be sentenced later this month. USAO SDFL

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Healthcare Fraud, Other Government Health Programs,

October 31, 2018

A London-based doctor has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers. The doctor, Dr. Anis Chalhoub, was convicted in April of implanting over 200 medically unnecessary pacemakers in patients at St. Joseph London hospital, reportedly even pressuring patients and giving them misleading information so that they would agree to the procedures. He is ordered to pay $257,515 in restitution to Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers, as well as a $50,000 fine. USAO EDKY

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicaid, Medicare,

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