North Carolina

Glenn Pair and Markuetric Stringfellow's after-school program, Do-It-4-The-Hood Corporation, ran in North Carolina from 2016 to 2018. Pair and the other co-conspirators paid people to recruit at-risk youths eligible through North Carolina Medicaid for after-school and youth mentoring programs run by companies Pair operated. Pair...

John Paul Cook enlisted in the United States Army in November of 1985. Six months later, Cook sustained an injury while on duty. Cook complained that as a result of the accident and injuries he sustained, his preexisting eye condition had worsened. Following an...

Tanya Parrish Grant, 51, was a business owner of two health care companies in North Carolina that provided durable medical equipment (DME) such as back, shoulder, knee, and wrist braces to Medicare patients. Between both companies, Atlantic Brace and Blue File they generated claims...

A typical father-and-son activity might include watching sports, taking a hike, or throwing a ball around. Not so for Izzat Freitekh, 55, of Waxhaw, North Carolina, and son Tarik Freitekh, 33, of Glendale, Calif. They had a different idea of what constitutes a family-son...

Richard Graves, 49, of Greensboro, N.C., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the North Carolina Medicaid program and money laundering. He used his positions at United Diagnostic Laboratories (UDL), a urine toxicology testing laboratory, and United Youth Care Services (UYCS), a company that provided...

Luis Angel Lozada, of Clayton, North Carolina, was the cornerstone of a healthcare fraud scheme that stole more than a million dollars from the North Carolina Medicaid system through the submission of false and fraudulent behavioral health claims. It is ironic that Lozada used...

Fraudsters are brazen. They don’t mind throwing their weight around to get what they want. A Saint Pauls, N.C., woman used her job as an operations supervisor at the Fayetteville offices of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to steal $760,966 in Supplemental Security Income...

Most healthcare professionals join the field because they want to make an impact in their patients’ lives. One woman from Raleigh, N.C., certainly made an impact on the lives of her patients, but unfortunately, it was not for the better. Connie Omari, 37, has...

The man who was at the center of the 2018 District 9 election scandal was sentenced to prison Thursday for collecting disability while being paid for working on campaigns. Leslie McCrae Dowless, 65, admitted to defrauding the Social Security Administration. (One scandal just wasn’t...

While it’s typical for the owner of a company to ensure that their business is thriving, owners can also get in the way of their own success. This was the case of a North Carolina woman, Shelly Phillips Bandy, 41, who admitted to making...