04/26/2018
12:00 AM EDT
The
president and owner of a Florida pharmacy that was at the center of a massive
compounding pharmacy fraud scheme, which impacted private insurance companies,
Medicare and TRICARE, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison and ordered to
pay $54 million in restitution for his role in the scheme. Six other individuals
have previously been sentenced in connection to the scheme, and another is
scheduled to be sentenced on Monday, April 30. Various real properties, cars and
a 50-foot boat were forfeited as part of the sentencings.
04/26/2018
12:00 AM EDT
Mohamed
Toure, 57, and Denise Cros-Toure, 57, of Ft. Worth, Texas, appeared today in
federal court in the Northern District of Texas on a criminal complaint charging
them with forced labor, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of
the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of
the Northern District of Texas, and Special Agent in Charge Michael V. Perkins
of the Department of State, Diplomatic Security Services’ Houston Field Office.
04/25/2018
12:00 AM EDT
“Today,
we are taking a first step toward freeing American businesses, taxpayers, and
consumers from the burden of judgments that no longer protect competition,” said
Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s
Antitrust Division. “We will pursue the termination of outdated judgments
around the country that presently do little more than clog court dockets, create
unnecessary uncertainty for businesses or, in some cases, may actually elicit
anti competitive market conditions.”
