Press Releases

A Florida man pleaded guilty today to a $42 million fraud on Medicare involving false claims for durable medical equipment (DME) and cancer genetic testing. He also pled guilty to fraudulently obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan.

A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment on Tuesday charging Dr. Edgard Salazar, 57, of Armonk, New York, with conspiring to bill Medicare for thousands of consultations that never occurred and millions of dollars of orthotic braces that Medicare patients did not want or need.

Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team, joined Europol to announce the results of Operation TorNado: a coordinated, multi‑agency and international law enforcement effort targeting criminal enterprises that use Dark Web markets to traffic fentanyl, opioids, and other illicit drugs

A Minnesota man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment charging Thomas Osbeck, 70, of Ft. Myers, Florida, with engaging in, and attempting to engage in, illicit sexual conduct with minors in Haiti.

Today the Department of Justice announced coordinated actions against the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) government’s schemes to fund its regime through the massive theft of cryptocurrency.

Today, A Wellington, Florida, man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for using sham cosmetic surgery clinics and the stolen identities of more than 100 people to defraud medical lenders of approximately $2.3 million, and for fraudulently seeking COVID-19 disaster relief loans.

The Justice Department today announced that 36 individuals, nine of whom are illegal aliens, have been charged in a multi-state Homeland Security Task Force investigation involving drug trafficking and money laundering that spans international borders.

An Illinois woman was sentenced on Friday to 36 months, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $11,130,490 in restitution and a forfeiture money judgment of $1,965,712, for running a multi-million-dollar pandemic assistance and unemployment benefits scheme.

A Queens man pleaded guilty on Monday to defrauding Medicare and New York State Medicaid of approximately $127 million by billing for medically unnecessary prescription drugs and social adult day care (SADC) services that were not provided.

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has permanently barred Juan Humberto Garcia and his tax preparation business, The Tax Master of BVL, Inc., from preparing federal tax returns for others and ordered them to pay $558,520. The court also barred Marcos Yariel Figueroa from preparing federal tax returns for others for two years.