Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants engaged in a conspiracy to obtain and sell Medicare beneficiary identifier numbers (BINs) of thousands of patients for use in Medicare fraud schemes. Reported by: Kent Morlan Kenia Marrero, 46, of Miami, paid Joan Navarro

Beaumont, Texas, civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a qui tam action claiming that the Defendants violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by causing the submission of false or invalid diagnosis codes to the Medicare Advantage program. Reported by Kent Morlan The United`

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and attempted obstruction of criminal investigation of heath care cases. Reported by Kent Morlan Glendale Doctor Violetta Mailyan, age 45, was accused of submitting more than t$45 million in bogus claims to Medicare for Botox injections that were medically unnecessary or never provide and usin

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failing to pay 10 years of employment taxes totaling $774,081. Reported by Kent Morlan Danny L. Nickelson Jr., 54, a Jefferson County businessman, owned General Physiotherapy, a manufacturer and distributor of massage and percussion devices used in medic

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and money laundering. Reported by Kent Morlan Elnar Zarbailov, 42, of Staten Island, New York, and dual citizen of the United States and Azerbaijan, was a fixer and money launderer for the foreign-based Organization that spearheaded the largest health care fraud case ever prosecuted by the D

Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States Government, mail fraud, and money laundering. By Kent Morlan Joel Rufus French, age 47 of Armory, Mississippi, engaged in a conspiracy to defraud of the United States. French worked with overseas telemarketing call centers that pressured elderly Americans to provide thei

New Have, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with Intent to Distribute, Distribution of, and Dispensing of Controlled Substances. by Kent Morlan Law enforcement began investigating Michele Rene Muzyka, 61, of Cheshire, Connecticut, an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), after ph

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with willful failure to collect and pay taxes. George Dilles, age 55, of Inverness, Illinois, was the president and part-owner of NG Enterprises, Inc., a company that provided elderly home personal care in the Milwaukee area and over time employed from 50 to 110 workers. Dilles was required to withhold federal incom

Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with failure to account for and pay over employment tax and failure to account for and pay over employment tax. Mari Alexander, 52, was the sole owner and president of a mental-health counseling center with multiple locations throughout Tennessee. Alexander controlled the counseling center’s financial affairs and

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud, and illegal prescribing of controlled substances. Dr. Jonathan Wayne Morris, 46, was indicted with 15 counts of illegal prescribing of controlled substances and 23 counts of health care fraud. Dr. Morris has owned Columbia Urgent Care since at least 2019. From at least May 1, 2019, through Apr

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to launder millions of dollars of health care fraud proceeds. Jeanett Valenzuela Ayub, age 51, of Chula Vista,m California, and her co-conspirators billed Medicare nearly $51 million for bogus prescriptions and were paid approximately $20 million, ultimately laundering at least $14 million dollars

Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and engaging in a conspiracy to pay kickbacks. Dashawn Dawkins, 34, was a peer support specialist at Serenity Keeper’s, LLC (“Serenity Keepers”), a sober home company based in Fayette County, Ky., that purported to provide mental health and substance abuse treatment services and housing f

Nashville, Tennessee, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act. American Health Companies, LLC (“AHC”), doing business as American Health Partners (“AHP”), was accused to violating the False Claims Act allegations related to billing Medicare and TennCare for grossly substandard nursing home services from Lewis County Nursing and R

Atlanta, Georgia commercial litigation lawyers represented Advanced Urology, Inc. and Dr. Jitesh Patel accused of violation the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Medicaid for services that were either unnecessary or never performed. The government’s investigation began after a former Advanced Urology employee filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Advanced Urology performed unn

Lexington, Kentucky, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and violating the anti-kickback statute. Dashawn Dawkins, 34, was a peer support specialist at Serenity Keeper’s, LLC (“Serenity Keepers”), a sober home company based in Fayette County, Ky., that purported to provide mental health and substance abuse treatment servic

Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud. From June 2025 through January 2026, Oregon Clinical Laboratory submitted more than $46 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare Advantage plans. However, no providers actually ordered testing services and none of the Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on the claims actually received testing servi

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Christopher Harwood, 43, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, admitted that he owned and operated a telemedicine company called TelevisitMD. Harwood and his co-conspirators targeted Medicare patients through aggressive telemarketing campaigns, inducing them to

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with prescribing pain pills and other controlled substances in exchange for sex acts, nude photos or cash. Craig A. Spiegel, now 70, exploited his position to obtain cash, sexual acts or sexual photographs from at least 19 patients, many of whom he began treating as children. Spiegel illegally distributed an “astr

Archer City, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and wire fraud conspirac. Robert “Bobby” Leon Smith III, 50, of Archer City, Texas, owned and operated seven durable medical equipment (DME) supply companies based in Florida, Texas, and Maryland through which he submitted millions of dollars in false claims to Medicare for orthotic braces a

Detroit, Michigan, qui tam lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a whistleblower claim. Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC (“Team Rehab”), operates approximately 140 physical therapy clinics in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia, agreed to pay $4,969,494 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment for physical therapy serv

San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with large scale fraud. Anar Rustamov, age 38, formerly of Sunnyvale, California and a national of Azerbaijan, was part of a scheme to submit thousands of fraudulent claims to Medicare Advantage Organizations (“MAOs”) on behalf of unsuspecting beneficiaries for medical equipment such as blood glucose monitor

Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Tiffany Haney, 43, Anne Warren, 45, and Tina Roper, 40, all of Knoxville, were accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349. The jury also convicted Haney and Warren of committing specific acts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C

Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with health care fraud and engaging in an illegal kickback conspiracy. Teflyon Cameron, 59, of Powder Springs, Georgia, conspired to defraud health insurers, including Medicare, by causing the submission of claims for medically unnecessary Durable Medical Equipment (DME) and Cancer Genetic Tests (CGx). In total, Came

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy and health care fraud. From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Scott Taggart Roethle, 48, played a central role in a massive telemarketing scheme that billed Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces. Overseas call centers collected Medicare information from unsuspecting elderly patients. Doctors, including

Erie, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire and health care fraud. Aaron Hertel, 47, of North East, Pennsylvania, and Michael Brown, 49, of Erie, Pennsylvania led, managed, and supervised a conspiracy involving numerous employees at Hertel & Brown Physical and Aquatic Therapy that involved the use of unlicensed technicians to trea