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Suspended Belvidere doctor Charles DeHaan billed Medicare for home visits he never made, some to patients who had died. He got 9 years, $2.79M restitution.
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The Gordins billed insurers $28.8M for unneeded or phantom care at Gordin Medical Center in Wheeling, causing $10.8M in losses. Five sentenced in 2017.
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Chicago chiropractor Henry Posada was convicted on 18 health care fraud counts over bogus Medicare and insurer claims and sentenced to 60 months in prison.
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Arkansas dealer John Rogers pleaded guilty to wire fraud involving a doctored Heisman Trophy and forged deals. He got 12 years and $23.5M in restitution.
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Gregory Webb raised $9M+ from 200+ investors with false claims of city contracts and an $8.7B buyout for InfrAegis. Convicted by a jury; upheld on appeal.
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Scott Redman used a real Illinois doctor's identity to see patients at a Chicago clinic and prescribe Adderall, Xanax and more, including to a child.
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After aid workers were kidnapped in Somalia, William Burley posed as a decorated Navy SEAL to get $30,000 from a Crystal Lake charity for a 'rescue.'
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Quadrant 4 System CEO Nandu Thondavadi got 60 months and CFO Dhru Desai 39 months after guilty pleas in a scheme to defraud the company and shareholders.
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Alan P. Gold of A.P. Gold Realty & Management was charged with skimming $154,271 from an Edgewater condo association. He pleaded guilty in 2017.
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Stephen Browere sold clients notes in a firm secretly tied to him, spent their savings on a yacht and BMW, and misused a dementia patient's estate.
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Alan H. Gold told retirees their money was in Facebook stock and real estate funds, sent fake statements and stock certificates, and gambled it at casinos.
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David Bryant pleaded guilty to wire fraud after claiming his Bryant Family Investment Fund earned 200%+ a year. It never traded. Losses: $3.6M.
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Diana Gumila ran Schaumburg's Doctor at Home, billing Medicare for house calls on patients able to leave home and upcoding visits. Upheld on appeal.
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Travis Oliver pleaded guilty to wire fraud over 'guaranteed' Electus Asset Holdings investments that cost Rockford-area investors $983,654: 51 months.
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Clayton Andrew Cohn of Marketaction pleaded guilty to wire fraud over a hedge fund that took $1.5M+ from 37 investors, many veterans. He got 52 months.
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Adviser Delores J. Mosier pleaded guilty to mail fraud for selling fake 'Chicago Anticipatory Notes' she said the city issued. Sentenced in 2016.
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Avalon Betts-Gaston's IJCN Investments promised to save homes from foreclosure, then sold them to straw buyers and took the equity. Upheld on appeal.
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Robert Lunn told Leaders Bank two clients knew about loans taken for them; they didn't. He spent the money himself. His conviction was upheld in 2017.
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Passages Hospice owner Seth Gillman got 6.5 years and director Angela Armenta 20 months in a scheme to bill Medicare for unneeded high-level hospice care.
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Shameka Carr pleaded guilty to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft for filing tax returns in stolen names. She got 87 months and $365,764 restitution.
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Gilbert Brett Freeman's Mexico-based firms promised to sell owners' timeshares, collected $4.8M in fake fees and taxes, and funded a Lamborghini lifestyle.
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Pharmacist Michael Markiewicz imported fake Viagra and Cialis from China in pen boxes and sold 1,600 pills without prescriptions at Belmont Pharmacy.
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Mobile Doctors CEO Dike Ajiri pleaded guilty to $1.85M Medicare upcoding; Dr. Banio Koroma was convicted at trial of false homebound certifications.
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Dr. Arthur Davida of Home Care Physicians admitted falsely certifying patients as homebound, causing at least $4M in Medicare losses. He got 24 months.
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Hexagram Home Health owner Jacqueline Tuanqui was convicted at trial of paying Medicare kickbacks; 36 months. Marketer Susie Avellanosa pleaded guilty.
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Robert Pearson, owner of Illinois Stock Transfer (IST Shareholder Services), pleaded guilty to wire fraud for using client money for payroll and taxes.
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Austin Etches got 7 years for a Manila call-center scam selling phony CDs and real estate to U.S. seniors. Jonathan Papa and Lal Palliyaguru were charged.
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Dr. Robert Kolbusz billed Medicare and insurers $3.7M for 'pre-cancer' treatments that were really cosmetic laser peels. Convicted at trial; 7 years.
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HCN Home Healthcare owners Estrellita and Miguel Duquilla and five others pleaded guilty in a Medicare kickback case. The Duquillas got 24 and 15 months.
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William Mastro, ex-CEO of Mastro Auctions, got 20 months for shill bidding and selling altered items, including a trimmed T206 Honus Wagner card.
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