Lance Armstrong, the former champion cyclist, asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit claiming he defrauded the U.S. by using banned substances in violation of his team’s contract with the U.S. Postal Service. Armstrong, in papers submitted yesterday in …
A West Virginia radiologist and two Pennsylvania attorneys who were involved in thousands of asbestos lawsuits have been found guilty of civil racketeering for conspiring to fabricate claims against CSX Transportation. The Wheeling jury on Thursday ordered Pittsburgh attorneys Robert …
Merck & Co has agreed to pay between $3 million and $10 million to settle a nearly decade old class-action lawsuit that alleged the company made false claims about the benefits of its Coppertone sunscreen products. Merck acquired the popular …
A Billings, Mont., businessman has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in an insurance fraud scheme. The U.S. attorney’s office says Robert Shane Peterson was sentenced on July 12 after earlier pleading guilty to a federal …
Prosecutors have charged two Indianapolis women with making false claims to try to collect money from funds intended for victims of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry says Stephanie Murry and Sandra Hurn were charged …
Surveillance cameras installed in Atlantic City, N.J.,’s jitneys a year ago have proved to be a valuable tool for law enforcement. One camera caught a fatal hit-and-run accident last weekend. The accident initially was blamed on the jitney driver, but …
A Birmingham woman who falsely claimed she lost her home, her father and her infant daughter in the April 27 tornadoes has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the government. The woman, 31-year-old Libra Nikosha Green, entered her …
A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Randall T. Thirsk for FEMA fraud. Thirsk was convicted in 2010 in federal court in Gulfport, Miss., on four counts. Prosecutors say Thirsk received more …
The FBI says it has launched a nationwide manhunt for a man who is accused of defrauding the state and private insurance companies out of $25 million. Dr. Gautum Gupta owns and operates several Nutrition Clinic locations in the Chicago …
An injury attorney from Maryland pleaded guilty Wednesday to an insurance-fraud conspiracy in which he teamed up with a Virginia chiropractor to submit bogus claims. Amir Ryan Lahuti, 45, of Bethesda faces up to 20 years in prison when he …