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Kickbacks
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Vogel Plea Documents in Milberg Weiss Clients Case
By Ellen Podgor
The documents related to the plea agreement of Howard Vogel, who admitted to receiving over $2 million in secret kickbacks from plaintiff securities class action firm Milberg Weiss for serving…
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Lerach and Weiss Avoid Indictment But the Law Firm May Not
By Ellen Podgor
Prominent plaintiff class action attorneys William Lerach and Melvyn Weiss have dodged a bullet with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California reportedly deciding not to pursue…
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By Ellen Podgor
Here's one you don't see every day. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee announced the arrest of two Veterans Administration officials for taking kickbacks for the…
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Caremark RX Settles Civil Health Care Fraud Claim
By Ellen Podgor
Caremark RX entered into a civil settlement with the Department of Justice regarding alleged illegal kickbacks at its AdvancePCS subsidiary. The company agreed to pay $137.5 million to resolve claims…
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Lawyer Accused of Taking Kickbacks from Plaintiffs Class Action Counsel
By Ellen Podgor
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced the indictment of Seymour Lazar, a 78 year-old lawyer in Palm Springs, for allegedly taking approximately $2.4 million in…
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Corruption and Obstruction in Margaritaville
By Ellen Podgor
The former Monroe (FL) County Attorney, James Herrick, was added to a superseding indictment for alleged obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct a federal grand jury, and two counts of…
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Serono Is Getting Ready to Settle Healthcare Fraud Investigation
By Ellen Podgor
Serono S.A., the large biotech company, indicated in an SEC filing that it is preparing to settle an investigation of its U.S. subsidiary, Serono Inc., related to its sales of…
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Four Former Sales Executives at Serono Laboratories Indicted for Offering Kickbacks to Doctors
By Ellen Podgor
The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts (Boston) announced the indictment of four former U.S. sales executive of Serono Laboratories Inc., a biotech company headquartered in Switzerland,…
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More Oil-for-Food Program Indictments
By Ellen Podgor
The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced today the unsealing of an indictment of three as-yet unnamed individuals, one from Texas and the others…
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Plea Deal in Healthcare Fraud Case
By Ellen Podgor
A high-profile prosecution of a hospital, its former CEO, and an associate administrator got a jolt when the associate administrator, Mina Nazaryan, agreed to plead guilty on Jan. 5 as…