White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

KANSAS

– Pharmacist convicted for illegal online distribution of prescription drugs (Kan. Dist. Ct.), 387

KICKBACKS

– Emergency vehicle company workers sentenced for government contracts scheme (M.D. Fla.), 98
– Energy company worker sentenced for accepting payments (E.D.N.Y.), 100
– Home Depot worker pleads guilty to accepting payments from vendors (N.D. Ga.), 65; another employee pleads guilty, 386; another employee sentenced, 452
– HIV infusion therapy, 3 clinic operators plead not guilty to paying patients for visits (S.D. Fla.), 280
– Medicaid patients paid to use certain pharmacies, doctor sentenced (S.D.N.Y.), 672
– Medical devices, payments to doctors

– – Nerve conductor testing device, firm enters into deferred prosecution agreement, 107
– – Orthopedic implant makers, conspiracy complaints dismissed, federal monitoring ended (D.N.J.), 260

– Medicare and Medicaid, homeless people recruited for unnecessary procedures, hospital executive pleads guilty to paying recruiters (C.D. Cal.), 208
– Medicare, paying for patient data to file false claims

– – Indictment of infusion and therapy clinic owners (E.D. Mich.), 464
– – Power wheelchairs

– – – Conviction of medical equipment supply firm owner (E.D. Tex.), 214
– – – Sentencing of medical equipment firm owner (N.D. Tex.), 138

– Oil-for-Food program, payments to Iraqi officials

See INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

– 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

– Securities

– – Public employees' pension fund, state officials indicted for scheme in choosing investment firms to manage fund (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 204; hedge fund manager pleads guilty, head of Liberal Party charged, 281; equity firm founder charged, 313; subpoenas issued to investment firms in expanding probe, 334; placement agent pleads guilty, 354; Carlyle Group settles with state, will adopt code of conduct for investment firms, 365; private equity firm pays restitution for actions to attract investments, 425; 2 more defendants plead guilty, 701
– – Stock-loan schemes

– – – Lending agent indicted for payments to broker-dealers (E.D.N.Y.), 699
– – – Morgan Stanley executive convicted of conspiracy (E.D.N.Y.), 208

– – Stock-price manipulation scheme, registered brokers plead guilty (S.D.N.Y.), 386; software firm CEO and brokers convicted, 481
– – Stock promoter pleads guilty to paying investment adviser to buy particular stock (S.D.N.Y.), 741

– Security services subcontract to protect U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, guilty plea entered (E.D. Va.), 633
– Superfund schemes

– – Contaminated soil disposal firm, executive pleads guilty to paying contractor and defrauding EPA (D.N.J.), 486
– – Electrical firm worker pleads guilty to influencing government subcontract awards (D.N.J.), 178; sentencing, 490
– – Environmental firm executive pleads guilty (D.N.J.), 12; co-owner of landscaping services firm pleads guilty, 449
– – Three more contractor employees indicted for kickback scheme (D.N.J.), 661