A high-stakes trial beginning Monday is bringing back a spotlight on the illegal kickbacks scheme that for years has haunted Spain’s Popular Party, casting a long shadow on the country’s main conservative party despite its pledges of regeneration.
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Rio de Janeiro state police arrested outgoing Mayor Marcelo Crivella on Tuesday in connection with an alleged kickbacks scheme, yet another show of political turmoil in Brazil’s postcard city.
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Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal criminal charges related to the OxyContin manufacturer’s role in the nation’s deadly opioid crisis.
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In some of the most explosive accusations in recent Mexican political history, the former head of the state-owned oil company directly accused former President Enrique Peña Nieto and his treasury secretary of directing a scheme of kickbacks and embezzlement directly from the president’s office.
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FBI agents on Monday arrested Puerto Rico Representative María Milagros Charbonier and three other people, a spokesman for the pro-statehood New Progressive Party said.
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Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain who went into exile this month in the face of graft allegations, is in the United Arab Emirates, the royal palace said Monday, ending the mystery on his whereabouts.
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The rabbi whose hand was mutilated in a San Diego-area synagogue shooting in 2019 pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud charges Tuesday, following an FBI investigation into his charitable organizations which preceded the attack on his congregation during the sacred Jewish holiday of Passover.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit upheld the convictions of a Michigan doctor whose clinic, Compassionate Doctors, collected millions in Medicare payments and illegal kickbacks for fraudulent prescriptions written to fake patients, who were “generally small-time criminals and drug dealers,” according to the court
Read moreSwiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has agreed to pay more than $642 million to settle a lawsuit that accused it of paying kickbacks to doctors, among other allegations, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
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A former NFL player convicted of health care fraud and ordered to pay over $18 million in restitution for taking illegal kickbacks asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to toss out his 22-year prison sentence.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit against Chevron claiming the company funded acts of terrorism through surcharges of Iraqi crude oil, which were remitted to former Iraq President Saddam Hussein. While Chevron knew a “kickback from its purchase” would be end up in Iraq, it did not necessarily know those funds were specifically used to finance terrorism, the court ruled.
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A San Francisco-based health information technology company will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that it helped set up an electronic health records system that encouraged physicians to prescribe opioids to patients who might not need them, federal prosecutors in Vermont said Monday.
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The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was sentenced to 5½ years in prison Thursday for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis.
Read moreAttorneys for a former Arkansas state senator and his associate argued before the Eighth Circuit on Thursday that their convictions related to a kickback scheme should be dismissed.
Read moreFour former employees claim in federal court that Life Spine fired them illegally for objecting to a 7-year-long “extensive kickback scheme in which the company paid surgeons … to induce those surgeons to use Life Spine’s products,” for which the company had to pay a $5.5 million penalty.
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The highest ranking United Auto Workers official yet to face punishment for his role in a sprawling corruption scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday, as the case continues to rock the foundation of one of the most powerful unions in the nation.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Alaska Airlines of encouraging online customers to buy travel insurance from its preferred provider, nonparty Allianz Global Assistance, from whom it allegedly receives kickbacks.
Read morePacific Health Corp. and Los Angeles Doctors Hospital Corp. must reimburse Medicare and Medi-Cal to the tune of $560,000, a federal judge ruled, siding with a nurse who said the defendants improperly committed patients to locked psychiatric units in exchange for kickbacks.
Read moreOpioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million to settle a U.S federal government probe of the company’s marketing and kickback scheme involving the distribution of a sublingual opioid spray, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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