Tag Archives: Miami White Collar Crimes Lawyers
Florida Doctor with Senatorial Ties Charged with Fraud and Corruption
Florida doctor Salomon Melgen has been indicted on fraud and corruption charges tied to his medical practice and his connections with Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey). Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida recently hit Dr. Melgen with an indictment charging 46 counts of health care fraud associated with his ophthalmology practice. Nineteen… Read More »
$100 Million Surety Bond Scheme
An Orange Park, Florida, man was recently sentenced to almost five years in prison for operating a $100 million surety bond fraud scheme. From August 2012 to July 2013, Eric Campbell created several corporations in order to sell fraudulent surety bonds to various construction projects around the country. The unsuspecting purchasers of these fraudulent… Read More »
PIP Fraud Arrests in Miami
Nine arrests were made last month in the Miami area, by agents of the Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud, in separate cases for personal injury protection fraud. The individuals staged automobile accidents and submitted thousands of dollars’ worth of fraudulent bills to various insurance carriers. Personal injury protection (PIP) fraud… Read More »
Florida’s Doctors and Health Care Continue to be Targeted by the Feds
After releasing Medicare payment data for the first time since the 1970s, the Justice Department is now joining in lawsuits against high-billing doctors, accusing them of fraud and illegal health practices. The Medicare payment report indicated that the top 1% of 825,000 individual medical providers accounted for 14% of the $77 billion in billing… Read More »