Physical Therapist Sentenced to Almost 5 Years in Prison in Connection with Detroit-area Medicare Fraud Schemes

Farmington Hills, Mich., resident Baskaran Thangarasan has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for his participation in a fraudulent physical therapy scheme. U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox in the Eastern District of Michigan sentenced Thangarasan...

Medical Equipment Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Nutritional Supplies And “Arthritis Kits”

The owner and operator of a Houston-area durable medical equipment (DME) company has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Medicare program. Noel Wayne Jhagroo, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Vanessa...

32 Doctors And Health Care Executives Indicted on Charges Related to $16 Million in Alleged False Billing in Houston

32 people have been indicted for schemes to submit more than $16 million in false Medicare claims in the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Houston. The Strike Force in Houston is the fourth phase of a targeted criminal, civil...

Former New York City Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bribery

Charles N. Kriss, a former New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services engineer, pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment, which was filed on June 5, 2008 in the U.S. District Court in Islip, N.Y., and charged him with accepting money...