Caddell Construction Company Inc., based in Montgomery, Alabama, is a major industrial construction contractor that frequently is awarded construction contracts by the federal government. Caddell has agreed to pay a $2 million penalty as part of an agreement with the Department of Justice in connection with three Department of Defense (DoD) construction contracts, two in Fort Bragg, North...
American Sleep Medicine LLC has consented to pay $15.3 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit against the company, alleging that it submitted ineligible claims for payment to federal healthcare programs, including Medicare, TRICARE, and the Railroad Retirement Medicare Program. According to the Department of Justice, the claims for reimbursement involved sleep diagnostic services that...
The State of New York has reached a settlement with a Lindenhurst construction contractor and its executives for violations of the New York False Claims Act. Between 2006 and 2008, the New York Office of General Services hired the Lin-Kim Company several times to provide emergency construction repair work at two upstate prisons — the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility and the Otisville...
Beth Jenkins, 48, who owns several adult day care centers near Detroit, Michigan, has pleaded guilty to five counts of health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The scheme involved $13.2 million in false claims to Medicare over a seven year period.
Jenkins and two alleged co-conspirators owned and operated two adult day care centers — Procare...
Michael Carlow, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty to corruption in attempting to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to the Department of Justice, Carlow pleaded guilty in 1996 to tax fraud and bank fraud and received an eight year prison sentence. When Carlow was released from prison in 2002, he moved to Pittsburgh to live with Elizabeth Jones, his...
January 10, 2013 — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is aggressively pursuing securities industry professionals who seek to profit with fraudulent schemes that deprive other investors of critical information. The SEC is often tipped off to such schemes by securities insiders who notify authorities that the fraud is ongoing.
Penny Stock Securities Scheme Adds Up to Millions...
Demetrios Zacharopoulos Attributes His Compassion to His Family and His Success to the Firm’s Trial Philosophy
National plaintiffs’ firm Waters Kraus & Paul is honored to welcome the firm’s newest partner, Demetrios T. Zacharopoulos. Named on the Maryland Rising Stars® list by Thomson Reuters, Legal from 2010 through 2013, Mr. Zacharopoulos has been...
Nevada Supreme Court, rejecting onerous asbestos dose standards applied by some courts, overturns defendants’ summary judgment
Addressing the asbestos causation standard for the very first time, justices for the Supreme Court of Nevada handed down a landmark decision on December 6, 2012, in favor of plaintiffs. Applying a causation standard which rejects stringent standards...
Trial lawyers from one of the country’s leading mesothelioma law firms will take the lead at HarrisMartin’s California Asbestos Litigation Conference.
Michael Armitage, partner and managing attorney of Waters Kraus & Paul’s Los Angeles office has been selected to serve as co-chair of HarrisMartin’s California Asbestos Litigation Conference. The...
November 19, 2012 —Wal-Mart’s joint venture with Bharti Enterprises, called Bharti Walmart, is facing its own problems with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the law that prohibits companies from paying bribes to foreign officials and requires that companies follow certain accounting practices to prevent money from being accessible for corrupt purposes. The company has asked...
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