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Fraud
Honolulu’s former elected prosecutor, an island businessman, and his company’s associates have been found not guilty in an alleged pay-for-prosecution scheme that the feds said threatened to put a woman in prison on bogus theft charges.
On Tuesday, March 12, 2019, the United States Department of Justice announced the indictment of and charges against dozens of high profile individuals in an admissions fraud scheme involving the purchase of access to the nation’s top universities.
In May, four family members and two doctors were charged in connection to a medical insurance fraud billing scheme.
Over the course of a single week in June 2015, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), conducted what Attorney General Loretta Lynch called “the largest criminal health-care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice.”
When you're accused of fraud in California, you know that you could be facing time in prison or fines. It's not uncommon to be the center of an investigation when you work within the investment industry, but you don't need to let someone make you out to be a criminal.
On Sept. 12, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ordered State Senator Roderick D. Wright, a Democrat, to serve 90 days in jail followed by three years of probation for allegedly committing voter fraud and perjury.
On Sept. 3, federal prosecutors in California sentenced a man to 35 years in prison after he was convicted for his role in a foreclosure scam.
A California woman who pleaded guilty to several fraud-related charges after being accused of being the ringleader of a large Medicare scam was sentenced to eight years in a federal prison in addition to paying millions to Medi-Cal and Medicare on Aug. 18.
A resident of Modesto has been indicted on charges related to an alleged real estate scam; prosecutors claim that the man stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a variety of transactions over the course of approximately six years.