KNOXVILLE, Tenn.– The US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Japanese District of Tennessee pronounces that members of its workers and collaborating federal companions acquired a nationwide commendation for his or her work in Operation HealthWrong, a long-term, multi-defendant well being care fraud prosecution. At its annual convention, the Nationwide Well being Care Anti-Fraud Affiliation (“NHCAA”) chosen Operation HealthWrong as its nationwide Investigation of the 12 months.
NHCAA’s mission is to guard and serve the general public curiosity by growing consciousness and bettering the detection, investigation, civil and legal prosecution, and prevention of well being care fraud and abuse. Every year, the group points a nationwide award for the Investigation of the 12 months and acknowledges award recipients at its annual coaching convention. This 12 months, the profitable investigation and prosecutions of a number of defendants arising from Operation HealthWrong acquired the award.
Operation HealthWrong, a long-term investigation of a telemarketing and pharmacy scheme, resulted within the indictment of seven people (together with a medical physician and two pharmacists) and associated organizations they managed. All however one of many people entered responsible pleas to offenses associated to the investigation, and a jury discovered the remaining defendant, Peter Bolos, responsible of conspiracy to commit well being care fraud, mail fraud, and legal misbranding following a month-long trial final 12 months in the USA District Court docket in Greeneville, Tennessee.
In Could 2022, the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer imposed sentences within the case that ranged from 14 years in federal jail to probation. The Court docket additionally ordered over $100 million in restitution and forfeiture, and the USA recovered over $26 million at or previous to the completion of sentencings. Further particulars about people prosecuted, and the sentences imposed, will be discovered within the following press releases: Bolos sentencing and Bolos defendants sentencing.
NHCAA acknowledged the next members of the USA Legal professional’s Workplace for the Japanese District of Tennessee for his or her work on the case: former Assistant United States Legal professional T.J. Harker, Assistant United States Legal professional Mac D. Heavener, Authorized Assistants Barbra Pemberton and April Denard, and IT Specialist Brian Brandenburg.
Federal companions receiving recognition included the Division of Justice Client Safety Department (former Assistant Director John Claud and Trial Legal professional David Gunn), the USA Division of Well being and Hunan Providers, Workplace of Inspector Common (Supervisory Particular Agent Robert Turner), the USA Division of Homeland Safety, Homeland Safety Investigations (Particular Agent John Lyons), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Particular Agent Reanna O’Hare and Monetary Analyst LeAnn Lanz), the USA Meals and Drug Administration, Workplace of Legal Investigations (Particular Agent Brian Kriplean), the USA Workplace of Personnel Administration, Workplace of Inspector Common (Supervisory Particular Agent Wayne VanVarick), and the USA Postal Service, Workplace of Inspector Common (Particular Agent Timothy Jones).
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