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Details Written by Imperial Valley News San Francisco, California - A California-licensed homeopathic doctor was arrested Wednesday for her alleged scheme to sell homeoprophylaxis immunization pellets and to falsify COVID-19 vaccination cards by making it appear that customers had received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Moderna vaccine. Juli A. Mazi, 41, of Napa, is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of false statements related to h...

Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging Robert Bearden, of Chesterland, Ohio, with three counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government funds. According to the indictment, in July of 2020, the Defendant allegedly devised a scheme to fraudulently obtain Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CA...

ABINGDON, VA — A Wise County, Virginia man, who conspired with others to file for fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits, was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiring to commit mail fraud. According to court documents, Travis Kilgore, defrauded the government of more than $182,474 in pandemic unemployment benefits beginning in May 2020. Kilgore was also ordered to pay $164,470 in restitution. The government previously recouped $18,...

7 min read  To listen to the Federal Newscast on your phone or mobile device, subscribe in PodcastOne or Apple Podcasts. The best listening experience on desktop can be found using Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Improper payments increased by $31 billion in fiscal 2020 as compared to 2019. New data from the Office of Management and Budget shows agencies improperly paid out $206 billion last year up from $175 billion in 2019. Of that $206 billion, OMB said agencies determined they could recapt...

At the conclusion of an eight-day trial, the following defendants were found guilty on June 25: Richard Ayvazyan, 42, of Encino; Richard Ayvazyan’s wife, Marietta Terabelian, 37, of Encino; Richard Ayvazyan’s brother, Artur Ayvazyan, 41, of Encino; Vahe Dadyan, 41, of Glendale. All four defendants were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, 11 counts of wire fraud, eight counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Richar...

The creation of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force demonstrate that healthcare fraud enforcement activity is ramping up and will continue to increase over the course of the next year.

Last week, in light of the Department of Justice’s newly-formed COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force, we cautioned that COVID-related prosecutions were likely imminent. And on the...

On Wednesday, DOJ announced criminal charges against 14 defendants in seven federal districts for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes that exploited the COVID-19 pandemic and resulted in over $143 million in false billings.

Since the dawn of the historic COVID-19 relief packages, which have doled out approximately $2.6 trillion to date (with more to be spent), the federal government has made no secret of...

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries COVID-19 Task Force Established to Enhance Enforcement Efforts against Fraud On May 17, 2021, the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney General announced the establishment of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force, designed to coordinate DOJ resources across government agencies to combat COVID-19 related fraud. The Attorney General identified three goals of the Task Force in the announcement: “(1) to identify cros...