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Chicago Hospital Agrees to Pay More Than $1.5m in Medicare False Claims Act Allegations
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago has agreed to pay $1,547,200 plus interest to resolve allegations that the facility violated the False Claims Act. Rush is alleged to have submitted false claims to Medicare during the period 2000 through 2007 by...
$4m to Settle Lawsuit in Connection with Sale of Defective Bullet-Proof Vests
Lincoln Fabrics Ltd., a Canadian weaver of ballistic fabrics, and its American subsidiary, have agreed to pay the United States $4 million to settle the United States’ lawsuit against Lincoln for violations of the False Claims Act in connection with...
Texas Couple Convicted of Forced Labor And Other Crimes for Holding Woman in Domestic Servitude
A federal jury has convicted an Arlington, Texas, husband and wife, Emmanuel and Ngozi Nnaji, of engaging in a nine-year scheme to compel the labor of a Nigerian victim as their domestic servant. The jury found the defendants guilty of conspiracy, forced...
Redding, California, Man Convicted of Child Pornography Offenses
A California man was found guilty on Jan. 29, 2010, of one count of possessing and three counts of receiving child pornography. Elden Ray Cibart, 60, was found guilty by Senior U.S. District Court Judge William B. Shubb after an eight-day bench trial. Evidence...
Businessman Convicted on 86 Counts for Evading $1.9 Million in Taxes
Dov Shellef, a businessman from Great Neck, N.Y., has been convicted on 86 counts, following a five-week jury trial, for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service in the collection of approximately $1.9 million in excise taxes due on sales of...
Justice Department Advises Rejection of the Proposed Google Book Search Settlement
The Department of Justice has advised the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that while it should not accept the class action settlement in The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc. as proposed due to concerns of the United States...
Appeals Court Affirms Termination of A-12 Stealth Attack Aircraft Contract
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a judgment upholding the Navy’s termination for default of a contract with McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics for the A-12 stealth attack aircraft. In 1988, the Navy awarded the $4 billion...
Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in Iraqi Bullet-Proof Vest Contract
A defense contractor has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and has admitted to engaging in other bribery-related conduct in connection with contracts in Iraq. According to the plea agreement filed in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on Dec....
