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The government says sonographers traveled to college campuses through a company-directed testing operation that connected school access, professional credentials, medical review, and nationwide insurance billing WASHINGTON, DC, August 26, 2026 — Federal prosecutors allege that a cardiovascular testing operation linked to cardiologist Jason Finkelstein sent sonographers without required credentials to college campuses across the United […]
Federal prosecutors identify Protectus LLC and five related Nevada companies as the commercial network allegedly used to recruit medical providers, distribute skin-substitute products, assist government billing, divide reimbursements, and pay commissions within Michael McMillan’s charged healthcare fraud scheme. WASHINGTON, DC, August 23, 2026 — Protectus LLC occupies a central position in the federal indictment of […]
The federal indictment names Walter Presha Junior and Koby Evans in alleged patient-referral and kickback conduct, while distinguishing their conspiracy and payment-receipt charges from the substantive health care fraud counts filed only against Leigh Tesar. WASHINGTON, DC, August 22, 2026 — Two Tampa Bay-area registered nurses occupy central but legally distinct positions in the federal […]
Prosecutors say some expensive skin grafts were billed but never applied to patients, creating a disputed paper trail in which medical records, product inventories, claim codes, patient accounts, and financial transactions could become decisive evidence. WASHINGTON, DC, August 22, 2026 — Federal prosecutors investigating Florida nurse practitioner Leigh Tesar allege that Medicare received claims for […]
The government alleges McMillan personally used proceeds from a reimbursement stream in which he and companies he controlled received approximately $174 million, although the indictment does not assign an exact amount exclusively to his personal accounts. WASHINGTON, DC, August 17, 2026 — Federal prosecutors allege Michael McMillan and a group of wound-care businesses operating under the […]
The Van Nuys businessman appeared before a federal judge after his arrest, received the sixteen-count indictment against him, and entered the procedural stage where discovery, motions, bond supervision, and trial preparation will determine how prosecutors’ hospice-fraud allegations are tested. WASHINGTON, DC — Oren David Shachar was arraigned in federal court in Los Angeles after his […]
Federal prosecutors allege that Rowan and his co-conspirators disguised unlawful payments through inflated sales paperwork and pass-through banking arrangements, allowing medical providers to collect undisclosed profits while Medicare and other insurers reimbursed costs that did not reflect the underlying transactions. PHOENIX, Arizona — Federal prosecutors allege that Brian Rowan helped transform a nationwide wound-allograft kickback operation […]
Federal prosecutors allege that a Las Vegas wound-allograft sales executive helped conceal enormous bribes through sham invoices, shell companies, and financial transactions while providers submitted dramatically inflated claims involving elderly Medicare beneficiaries and terminally ill hospice patients. PHOENIX, Arizona — Federal prosecutors have charged Brian Rowan, a 47-year-old Las Vegas sales executive, with participating in an […]
Credit for time spent in Canadian custody shaped the final term. WASHINGTON, D.C.— When an Orange County judge sentenced Patrick Lutts Jr. to 13 years in prison, the court did not treat the term as beginning from zero. Lutts had already spent more than a year in custody following his February 26, 2025 arrest in […]
The former Rhode Island anesthesiologist disappeared during his sexual-assault trial, was convicted and sentenced in his absence, lived under numerous aliases for more than two decades, and was finally arrested aboard a sailboat off the New York and New Jersey coastline. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ronald L. Fischer case explained in its entirety is a story […]