Times Leader Staff Writer
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect that there was no admission of liability in the settlement agreement.
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio Two psychiatrists with offices in the Ohio Valley recently agreed to pay more than $500,000 in U.S. District Court after submitting false Medicare claims.
According to information from the U.S. Attorney of Southern Ohio’s office, Drs. Ali and Imad Melhem allegedly submitted false Medicare claims between January 2013 and December 2019.
“The doctors are practicing psychiatrists with Neurobehavioral Medicine Consultants, PC, Inc., which provides mental health services and substance abuse treatments to patients in several states. Dr. Ali Melhelm is the owner of NMC. Both individuals served as treating psychiatrists at Cambridge Behavioral Hospital in Guernsey County. Ali Melhelm also served as the inpatient facility’s Medical Director,” according to the court.
Wyoming s Republican-controlled Senate killed a scheme by Donald Trump backers to make it harder for a pro-impeachment congresswoman to keep her seat.
The state Senate voted on Wednesday to defeat a bill to require primary candidates in future elections to receive an outright majority or face a runoff.Supporters said such a bill would prevent unpopular candidates from winning with a narrow plurality, while opponents called it unnecessary and costly for county elections officials. It failed following a 15-14 vote.The bill was largely seen as targeted against Wyoming s at-large U.S. representative, House Republican Caucus Chair Liz Cheney who has already drawn multiple 2022 primary challengers.
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White supremacists plotted to attack the US power grid by shooting electricity stations causing millions of dollars worth of damage, FBI reveal in mistakenly unsealed affidavit
The FBI is investigating an alleged white supremacist group who was planning a power outage across the southeastern U.S. by attacking the grid
Operation Lights Out was scheduled for summer 2021 when members would cut off electricity by shooting rifle rounds into power stations
The plan was told to the FBI by an informant in an affidavit from March that was mistakenly unsealed last week
It revealed an Ohio teenager, a man from Wisconsin and a Texas native who was then a Purdue University student are among those being investigated
White supremacists plotted to attack power stations in the southeastern US, and an Ohio teenager who allegedly shared the plan said he wanted the group to be operational on a fast-tracked timeline if President Donald Trump were to lose his re-election bid, the FBI alleges in an affidavit that was mistakenly unsealed. The teen was in a text group with more than a dozen people in the fall of 2019 when he introduced the idea of saving money to buy a ranch where they could participate in militant training, according to the affidavit, which was filed under seal along with a search warrant application in Wisconsin s Eastern US District Court in March.