Lawrence Keefe, the U.S. attorney for Florida’s Northern District, vowed to identify and prosecute individuals who engaged in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
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A heart surgeon who once saved the life of rapper 50 Cent is in hot water with the feds for performing thousands of unnecessary blood vessel procedures and bilking nearly $30 million from insurers, pleaded guilty to fraud last week.
Moses deGraft-Johnson, MD, a cardiovascular surgeon in Tallahassee, Florida, admitted to performing invasive and unnecessary angiography procedures, as well as falsely billing insurance companies for more than $29 million. He pleaded guilty to 56 counts of healthcare fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
Starting as early as 2015, deGraft-Johnson performed two diagnostic angiographies one on each leg in hundreds of patients, whether these were medically indicated or not. He would subsequently bill insurers for atherectomies, a much different procedure involving removal of plaque. In some instances, he simply falsified patients medical records to make claims on the procedures.
Posted By Jim Turner, NSF on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 1:14 PM Photo via Richard Corcoran | Facebook Richard Corcoran called the allegations “abhorrent, unacceptable, and embarrassing.” An Estero couple, both educators, entered not-guilty pleas in federal court after being hit with more than 100 wire-fraud and racketeering charges stemming from an alleged scheme that involved selling Florida teacher-certification test information. Kathleen M. Jasper, 42, and Jeremy M. Jasper, 40, are alleged between January 2016 and March 2020 to have sold fraudulently obtained content from the Florida Teacher Certification Exam and the Florida Educational Leadership Exam, which is for administrators. Authorities said the content was included in test preparation materials and services sold through their busin
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A British man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years in Florida for attempting to smuggle industrial equipment to Iran against a US embargo.
Colin Fisher, 45, pleaded guilty at Pensacola federal court in September to violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and to attempted smuggling in relation to exporting power generating equipment to Iran, according to court documents.
Prosecutors said Fisher was arrested by federal agents in August when he arrived in Pensacola from the United Arab Emirates to finish the deal to ship out a 500,000 dollar (£368,000) turbine core engine that could have been used to provide energy to Iran’s oil fields.