OB/GYN Faces Nearly 60 Years in Prison for Sterilizing Women without Their Consent
The relationship between a woman and her OB/GYN is sacred. Women should feel safe and empowered when talking about their reproductive health with a medical provider.
But authorities say Javaid Perwaiz, 71, a former OB/GYN from Virginia, violated that trust. The Department of Justice announced yesterday that the MD will face nearly 60 years in prison for misleading/conning his patients into unnecessary medical procedures. It’s a tragedy that left many women unable to bear children.
Convicted on 52 Counts
Records indicate that Perwaiz operated out of two offices in the Chesapeake Bay area in Virginia. The criminal investigation started back in 2018 when a hospital employee contacted the FBI with the suspicion that Perwaiz was performing invasive procedures on women without their consent.
Two men accused of illegally obtaining, selling Air Force technical data 1 hour ago Federal officers arrested two men Wednesday amid allegations that they illegally obtained and sold sensitive Air Force technical data, the Justice Department announced in a release. Sarfraz Yousuf, 43, is accused of selling at least 1,875 sets of data known as technical orders to Marc Chavez, 53, between January 2015 and July 2020. Chavez paid at least $132,280 for the information and resold the manuals for a profit as recently as December 2020, according to the U.S. government. A federal affidavit filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California did not name Chavez’s customers, or specific aircraft or other systems involved in the case.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - A pharmaceutical company headquartered in Delaware has agreed to pay $12.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks.
Today’s settlement resolves allegations that, from November 2011 through December 2014, Incyte Corporation purportedly used an independent foundation as a conduit to pay the copays of certain federal beneficiaries taking Incyte’s drug Jakafi, which was approved to treat myleofibrosis in 2011. Specifically, Incyte was the sole donor to a fund that was opened in November 2011 to assist only myleofibrosis patients. After the fund opened, the government alleges that Incyte used the fund to pay the copays of federal beneficiaries taking Jakafi who were ineligible for assistance from the fund because they did not have myleofibrosis. Incyte managers pressured the foundation, through phone calls and emails, to provide economic assista
April 26, 2021
Philip Mungin, 58, of Bryans Road, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to forgery of a military discharge certificate and identity theft, in connection with a scheme in which Mungin provided fraudulent DD-214 discharge certificates to individuals for fraudulent military waiver applications for commercial driver’s licenses in exchange for payment.
The guilty plea was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner; Special Agent in Charge Jamie Mazzone, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General, Washington Regional Office; and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Dillard of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service – Mid-Atlantic Field Office.