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After a week-long trial, a federal jury convicted the former CEO of St. Gabriel Health Clinic Inc. for conducting a multi-year, multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud the Louisiana Medicaid Program.

There’s a lot to keep track of. Here’s a list of this week’s news updates and stories you may have missed.

A cattle rancher in Washington sentenced to prison for defrauding Tyson Foods Inc. out of 244 mil charging victim companies for purported costs of feeding hundreds of thousands of cattle did not exist. Cody Allen Easterday 51 of Mesa, used his company, Easterday Ranches Inc.

/PRNewswire/ -- The HealthWell Foundation®, an independent non-profit that provides a financial lifeline for inadequately insured Americans, is honored to...

Five former or current employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have been charged with schemes to defraud COVID-19 relief programs like the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) initiatives, according to the Department of Justice (DoJ).

Five current or former Internal Revenue Service employees allegedly submitted false and fraudulent loan applications that collectively sought over $1 million.

The Department of Justice has been touting revisions to its corporate criminal enforcement policies and signaling increased action for nearly a year.

ATLANTA -- Four individuals pleaded guilty recently to conspiring to defraud the Department of Education’s financial aid programs of millions of dollars in federal funds.

On September 28, 2022, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) joined the Inspector General for the United States...

Since inception of CARES Act, DOJ’s Fraud Section prosecuted over 150 defendants in over 95 criminal cases. Fraud Section has also seized over $75 million in cash along with numerous luxury items and real estate properties purchased with fraudulently obtained PPP proceeds.