San Francisco, California - Federal complaints have been filed against 30 defendants charged in a patients-for-cash kickback scheme, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson,  Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Special Agent in Charge for the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OIG), Steven J. Ryan.

Los Angeles, California - A retired certified public accountant has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for running a $27.5 million Ponzi scheme that for roughly two decades defrauded her friends and her accounting firm’s clients.

Houston, Texas - A Houston, Texas, attorney was convicted Friday of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and three counts of tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick for the Southern District of Texas.

Washington, DC - A Russian national and an Italian national have been charged in the United States with conspiring and attempting to steal trade secrets from an American aviation company.

Alexander Yuryevich Korshunov, 57, and Maurizio Paolo Bianchi, 59, were charged by a criminal complaint on August 21.  Korshunov was arrested on August 30 at Naples International Airport in Italy.

Washington, DC - The owner and chief executive officer (CEO) of a telemedicine company pleaded guilty Friday for his role in one of the largest health care fraud schemes ever investigated by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) and prosecuted by the Department of Justice, which resulted in charges in April 2019 against 24 defendants.

El Centro, California - United States Attorney Robert S. Brewer, Jr. announced the unsealing of a multi-count indictment today, charging 12 persons affiliated with Imperial Valley Ministries (IVM), with crimes arising from a forced labor conspiracy. Defendants were arrested today in El Centro, San Diego, and Brownsville, Texas. IVM leaders are charged with holding program participants against their will, coercing participants to surrender welfare benefits, and compelling participants to panhandle up to nine hours a day, six days a week, for the financial benefit of the church leaders. 
IVM operates a non-denominational church headquartered in El Centro, and has opened approximately 30 affiliate churches throughout the United States and Mexico, including Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San Jose; Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; and Brownsville, Texas.