A North Carolina engineering firm was sentenced after pleading guilty to lengthy conspiracies to rig bids and defraud the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).
According to court documents, Contech Engineered Solutions LLC (Contech) pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Sherman Act and one count of conspiracy...
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Category: Fraud
New charges filed against president of medical technology firm alleging conspiracy to pay kickbacks and submit over $70M in false claims for COVID tests
A federal grand jury handed down a superseding indictment against the president of California-based medical technology company Arrayit Corporation, Mark Schena, in connection with the submission of over $70 million in false and fraudulent claims for allergy and COVID-19 testing. Additionally, a criminal information was filed against each of Paul Haje, Arrayit’s...
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Massachusetts and Rhode Island men plead guilty in “first of kind” in nation Cares Act Fraud case
David Staveley, a/k/a Kurt Sanborn, , of Andover, MA, admitted he conspired with David Butziger, 53, of Warwick, RI, to file four fraudulent PPP loan applications with a Rhode Island bank, falsely claiming they owned businesses with large monthly payrolls. They did not own the business. Staveley...
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CFTC orders Coinbase Inc. to pay $6.5 million for misleading reporting on trading
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order filing and settling charges against digital asset exchange operator Coinbase Inc., based in San Francisco, California, for reckless false, misleading, or inaccurate reporting as well as wash trading by a former employee on Coinbase’s GDAX platform....
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United Airline pays $49 million to settle criminal charges and civil claims for defrauding the postal service and falsifying mail delivery docs
United Airlines Inc. (United), the world’s third largest airline, has agreed to pay over $49 million to end relating to fraud on postal service contracts for transportation of international mail. According to the criminal and civil settlement...
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DOJ sues Walmart nationwide for dispensing controlled substances to pharmacies through prescription opioid crisis
The Department of Justice has filed a nation-wide lawsuit against Walmart unlawfully dispensed controlled substances from pharmacies it operated across the country and unlawfully distributed controlled substances to those pharmacies throughout the height of the prescription opioid crisis.
The complaint alleges that this unlawful conduct resulted in hundreds of thousands of violations of the Controlled...
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“We Build the Wall” Online Fundraising Campaign Leaders Accused of Fraud
It was recently announced that four individuals involved with an online fundraising campaign called “We Build the Wall” have been charged with fraud. Brian Kolfage, Stephen Bannon, Andrew Badolato, and Timothy Shea are accused of defrauding hundreds of thousands of online donors for over $25 million.
The charging document alleges that...
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U.S. files major False Claims Complaint against Teva Pharma over hundreds of millions of $ in kickbacks to sell Multiple Sclerosis drug Copaxone
The United States has filed a major False Claims Act complaint against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and Teva Neuroscience Inc. (Teva), alleging that they illegally paid the Medicare co-pays for their multiple sclerosis (MS)...
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Federal grand jury returns indictment on CEO of SEG Armor for illegally selling US Government Chinese made body armor through GSA
The Chief Executive Officer of Surveillance Equipment Group (SEG) and SEG Armor, Arthur Morgan of Virginia has been indicted by a federal grand jury for selling ballistic vests, helmets, riot gear and other items that were made in Mainland China. Morgan is alleged to have certified that the products were made in the United...
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Gordon Pederson of Utah posing as medical doctor to sell baseless cure for COVID-19 indicted on fraud charges
Utah resident Gordon H. Pedersen has been indicted for posing as a medical doctor to sell a baseless treatment for coronavirus (COVID-19). According...
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