White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

HAWAII

– Identity theft, fictional person's information not covered by criminal ban on misuse of data belonging to “another” (Haw.), 361

HAZARDOUS WASTE

– Industrial waste illegally dumped, chemical company owner sentenced (S.D. Fla.), 744
– Permit required for storing even small quantities of waste, federal prosecutors may enforce state regulation (D.R.I.), 551; sentencing, 705
– Plating company owner sentenced for illegal storage of cyanide solutions (D. Or.), 69
– Recycling firm linked to illegal dumping in China, warehouse searched by government agents, 77
– Underground ejection well, firm and executives plead guilty to improper disposal of waste in (S.D. Tex.), 285
– Water treatment firm president and son sentenced for improper disposal of chlorine gas cylinders (E.D. Tex.), 390

HEALTH CARE

– AIDS

See AIDS AND HIV

– Auto accident victims, insurance fraud

– – Chiropractic clinic owner pleads guilty (S.D. Fla.), 320; sentencing, 523; 2 chiropractors sentenced, 596
– – Medical billing firm owner pleads guilty (D.N.J.), 486

– Cardiologist convicted of insurance billing fraud (W.D. La.), 35; sentencing, 452
– Compliance officer for hospital sentenced for entering into contracts for hospital work required to be done in official role (D. Haw.), 417
– Drugs

See DRUGS

– Embezzlement

– – Human resources director pleads guilty to stealing from Hitachi employee heath plan (S.D.N.Y.), 207; sentencing, 669
– – Physician recruiting services firm owner and medical center worker sentenced for phony invoice scheme (N.D. Tex.), 325

– Enforcement, creation of effective antifraud strategy described by HHS official, 760
– Honest services fraud

– – Hospital regulatory board scheme, Ala. governor's convictions reversed (11th Cir.), 255
– – Payments to state legislator, hospital CEO sentenced (D.R.I.), 286

– Investigative procedures fraudulently billed to Blue Cross and Blue Shield, chiropractor sentenced (N.D. Ga.), 216
– Johnson & Johnson, federal subpoenas received in antitrust and physician payment probes, 363
– Medicaid fraud

See MEDICAID

– Medical devices

See MEDICAL DEVICES

– Medical records

See MEDICAL RECORDS

– Medicare fraud

See MEDICARE

– Nurses

– – Allergy-testing, RN sentenced for insurance fraud (N.D. Ill.), 488
– – Mass resignation, nurses who staged cannot be prosecuted for endangering patients' welfare (N.Y. App. Div.), 102

– Nursing home patients' identities used to file false tax returns, defendants sentenced (W.D. Mo.), 69
– Organ transplant broker pleads guilty to defrauding patients (N.D.N.Y.), 591
– Patient referrals, payment to doctors for

– – Blood testing, 2 lab operators sentenced (D.N.J.), 489
– – Psychiatric center, CEO and physician convicted (N.D. Ill.), 487

– Rent-a-patient scheme, recruiter of healthy patients for unnecessary surgeries pleads guilty (Cal. Super. Ct.), 135
– Securities fraud

– – Attorneys' fees, entry of bar order denying indemnification of HealthSouth Corp. CEO Scrushy upheld (11th Cir.), 427
– – Deceiving investors, health care finance company executives sentenced (S.D. Ohio), 249

– Social services nonprofit, employees charged with billing Philadelphia for services not provided to needy families (E.D. Pa.), 314

HEDGE FUNDS

– Church leaders charged with fraud scheme targeting elderly parishioners (E.D.N.Y.), 311
– Concealing fraud by fund principals, brother of Bayou Fund official sentenced (S.D.N.Y.), 324
– Fugitive attorney pleads guilty to defrauding investors (S.D. Fla.), 665
– Insider trading

– – Galleon manager and other executives face criminal and civil charges (S.D.N.Y.), 736
– – Pequot fund, SEC reopens investigation, 79

– Kickbacks, fund manager pleads guilty to scheme in choosing investment firms to manage public employees' pension fund (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 281
– Manipulation of stock to inflate value of funds, trader pleads guilty (S.D. Fla.), 318
– Personal use of investor funds, fund manager charged (S.D.N.Y.), 91; indictment, 312
– Ponzi scheme, fund founder and manager charged (C.D. Cal.), 381; guilty plea entered, 589
– Solicitation fraud, indictment against fund manager unsealed (N.D. Ill.), 444
– Westgate Capital manager indicted for fraud (S.D.N.Y.), 131

HIV

See AIDS AND HIV

HOMICIDE

– Farm worker died of heat illness, labor contractor charged with involuntary manslaughter (Cal. Super. Ct.), 315

HONEST SERVICES FRAUD

– Abramoff scandal

– – Boulanger pleads guilty (D.D.C.), 95
– – Copland, former aide to Cochran (R-Miss), pleads guilty (D.D.C.), 168

– Alabama governor, convictions for scheme involving hospital regulatory board reversed (11th Cir.), 255
– Alaska

– – Chief of staff to former Gov. Murkowski (R) guilty of taking illegal contributions for reelection campaign, sentencing delayed (D. Alaska), 567
– – Weyhrauch (R), state legislator to seek Supreme Court review of ruling that misconduct need not violate state law in order to sustain federal conviction (D. Alaska), 111; (U.S., rev grant), 461

– Caso, former chief of staff to Weldon (R-Pa), sentenced (D.D.C.), 554
– Conflicts of interest, public official's nondisclosure may justify conviction of private citizen who does not know substance of ethics laws (3d Cir.), 526
– Emergency vehicle company workers sentenced for government contracts kickback scheme (M.D. Fla.), 98
– Enron CEO Skilling's conviction upheld (5th Cir.), 27; (U.S., rev grant), 749
– Hiring patronage scheme by city workers (U.S., rev den), 147; Scalia, dissenting, says scope of federal statute needs clarification, 147
– Hospital CEO sentenced for payments to state legislator (D.R.I.), 286
– Indictment, jury instructions and prosecutorial argument need not include “honest services fraud” theory (8th Cir.), 456
– Massachusetts, former House speaker pleads not guilty to enabling procurements from state agencies to software firm (D. Mass.), 413
– Media mogul Black, conviction based on conduct not intended to harm private party to whom services owed (U.S., rev grant), 349
– Private gain by public official not necessary element of offense (9th Cir.), 659
– Quid pro quo must be shown when public official is accused of accepting money in exchange for official acts (9th Cir.), 182
– Scope of federal statute may be clarified by Supreme Court, Analysis and Perspective, 761

HOUSING

– Mortgages

– – Fraud

See MORTGAGE FRAUD

– – Senators Dodd (D-Conn) and Conrad (D-ND) acceptance of mortgages on favorable terms did not violate rules, ethics committee finds, 568

– Securities, KB Homes CEO indicted for backdating stock options (C.D. Cal.), 169