White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

HAITI

– Earthquake, rebuilding after, FCPA application, 339

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT (HHS)

– Budget, FY2011, proposal, 116; Medicare and Medicaid claims database upgrade planned, 187

HEALTH CARE

– AIDS

– Cardiologist sentenced for insurance billing fraud (N.D. Ill.), 567
– Chiropractic services, bogus insurance claims

– – Fitness center owner charged (E.D. Pa.), 427
– – Health club co-owners charged (E.D. Pa.), 208
– – Staged automobile accidents, clinic owner sentenced (D.N.J.), 850

– Cosmetic surgery clinic owner sentenced for fraud (S.D.N.Y.), 760
– Credit cards with predatory lending rates promoted by providers, N.Y. attorney general investigating, 555
– Drugs

See DRUGS

– Durable medical equipment firms

– – Billing scheme, owners, indictments (W.D. Tex.), 98
– – Misbranded equipment, microscope capable of diagnosing Lyme disease, guilty plea (D. Kan.), 698; doctor pleads guilty, 758
– – Power wheelchairs, Medicare fraud, sentencing (S.D. Tex.), 15; (C.D. Cal.), 256; (E.D. Tex.), 291; sentencing, 355; company owner sentenced (S.D. Tex.), 531; manager and delivery driver sentenced, 849
– – Stealing physician IDs and filing false claims, bogus business owner, guilty plea (S.D. Tex.), 176
– – Threatening Medicare officials examining fraud claims, business owner, sentencing (S.D. Fla.), 178

– Embezzlement of benefits program funds (2d Cir.), 733
– Employee privacy in personal e-mail sent to lawyer on company laptop (N.J.), 292
– Enforcement

– – False Claims Act recoveries in FY2010 set record, DOJ says, 859
– – Individuals will be pursued aggressively, DOJ official says, 737

– Forging physician signatures and submitting false care charges, chiropractor, physician, and clinic employee, indictments (N.D. Ill.), 208
– Fraudulent plans and provider fraud, 2009 increase, insurance survey, 155
– HIPAA violations

– – Pa. hospital worker indicted (W.D. Pa.), 650
– – UCLA hospital researcher guilty plea (C.D. Cal.), 70; sentencing, 326

– Identity theft committed by medical staff, webinar, 405
– Medicaid fraud

See MEDICAID

– Medical devices

See MEDICAL DEVICES

– Medicare fraud

See MEDICARE

– Misuse of official information, nurse's report to state medical board, acquittal (Tex. Dist. Ct.), 132
– Nurse imposter to repay salary to employers (9th Cir.), 670
– Nursing home resident's death, liability for employee negligence (Mass.), 353
– Revenue recognition scheme, McKesson HBOC chair, sentencing (N.D. Cal.), 177; sales vice president, sentencing, 323
– Social services employees sentenced for billing for services not provided to needy families (E.D. Pa.), 433

HEDGE FUNDS

– Bridge loan investment manager claimed ties to Belgian royal family, charges filed (S.D.N.Y.), 425
– Diverting money from fund, CFO/trader guilty plea (S.D.N.Y.), 213; sentencing, 471
– Extortion, rabbi arrested (S.D.N.Y.), 126
– Fake promissory notes, sale to hedge funds, broker sentencing (S.D.N.Y.), 254
– Fiduciary relationship with investor, fund manager liable for fraud (6th Cir.), 569
– Insider trading

See INSIDER TRADING

– Investment adviser pleads guilty to fraud (D. Conn.), 805
– Lies about background, manager, guilty plea (D. Conn.), 37
– Mail fraud, manager sentencing (N.D. Cal.), 324
– Ponzi schemes

– – Disbarred lawyer/fund manager sentenced (S.D.N.Y.), 760
– – Founder and manager, sentencing (C.D. Cal.), 38

– Solicitation fraud, 3 defendants sentenced (S.D.N.Y.), 472

HHS

See HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT (HHS)

HIV

See AIDS AND HIV

HONEST SERVICES FRAUD

– Alaska

– – Chief of staff to former Gov. Murkowski (R) seeks dismissal of indictment (D. Alaska), 671; dismissal granted, 725
– – State legislator Weyhrauch, conviction vacated (U.S., vac), 459; trial postponed (D. Alaska), 559; evidence of job seeking barred (9th Cir.), 693; trial date set (D. Alaska), 800

– Analysis of Supreme Court decisions, BNA Insights, 508
– Bribery, former N.Y. state senate GOP leader, sentencing (N.D.N.Y.), 354
– Enron CEO Skilling conviction (U.S., oral arg), 165; (aff in part and vac in part), 459; oral argument set on new trial motion (5th Cir.), 705
– Fewer prosecutions likely after Supreme Court decisions, Special Report, 676
– Fiduciary duty, breach not required for conviction (9th Cir.), 891
– Hollinger Intl. chairman Black, conviction reversed (7th Cir.), 764
– Impact of Supreme Court decisions on prosecutors, BNA Insights, 581
– Intangible property theories in post-Skilling cases, BNA Insights, 741
– Legislative response to recent Supreme Court decisions discussed at Senate hearing, 704
– Media mogul Black, conviction vacated (U.S., vac), 459

HOUSING

– Mortgages

See MORTGAGE FRAUD

– Stock option backdating, KB Homes CEO, mixed verdict (C.D. Cal.), 273