Tag: Department of Justice

Indian National Jailed For 9 Years Over $2.8 Million Health Care Fraud
Business

Indian National Jailed For 9 Years Over $2.8 Million Health Care Fraud

[ad_1] The man transferred these funds through bank accounts belonging to shell corporations.Washington: An Indian national was on Tuesday sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for a USD 2.8 million health care fraud, the Department of Justice said.Yogesh K Pancholi, 43, a resident of Michigan, owned and operated Shring Home Care Inc. (Shring), a home health company. Despite being excluded from billing Medicare, Pancholi purchased Shring using the names, signatures, and personal identifying information of others to conceal his ownership of the company, according to court documents.In a two-month period, Pancholi and his co-conspirators billed and were paid nearly USD2.8 million by Medicare for services that were never provided, federal prosecutors said.Pancholi then transferred these f...
Google Emails, Memos Hidden From Web as DOJ Caves to Pressure
Technology

Google Emails, Memos Hidden From Web as DOJ Caves to Pressure

[ad_1] The US Department of Justice has removed public access to emails, charts and internal presentations from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that had come out as evidence in its landmark antitrust lawsuit against the tech titan.Google had challenged the government's posting of the documents online, and the court was sympathetic to its concerns. The result: a trial much more difficult for the public to follow than the similarly monumental and widely watched antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. in the 1990s. The trial, which is expected to last 10 weeks, is the biggest legal reckoning for a big tech company since then. With all the exhibits and evidence unearthed for discussion, it's also a rare look at the inner workings of one of the most influential businesses of the modern era. As the Jus...