Oregon

Paying medical providers or provider-owned laboratories in exchange for referrals encourages providers (we really mean fraudsters here) to order and seek payment for medically unnecessary services. The Anti-kickback statue functions to discourage such behavior. Northwest Physicians Laboratory was owned by Richard Reid. Therefore, NPL...

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” is an all-too-common quote used to inspire anyone confronted by failure. But for Salwan Adjaj, once a dentist from Oregon, maybe an addendum “but don’t try to succeed in crime” should have been added. Beginning in...

Childcare is more expensive than ever for families who need it as well as for the business owners run childcare centers. To ease the burden, there are federally funded state-run programs for both families and childcare businesses to apply for aid and resources. Katie Jo...

Benjamin Tifekchian, 47, of Portland, Ore., was undoubtedly bedazzled by the thought of obtaining free money from the U.S. Government during the global COVID-19 pandemic. He used his jewelry business, Bencho Jewlery Inc. (Bencho), to illegally apply for and receive emergency financial assistance to...

Have you ever been speechless after you hear about something that is just too hard to fathom? (Like a Southern California man who carried out a series of carefully devised plans to commit fraud and fund a lavish lifestyle? The nerve of him.) Matthew...

A Greene, Oreg., resident convicted of defrauding the Social Security Administration has been sentenced. Edwin N. Harris, 46, previously pleaded guilty to felony counts of concealing income and making false statements of material facts to his entitlement to benefits. Harris had been collecting benefits from...

People often meet their soul mates through friends or family, blind dates or serendipitous situations. In an article published in The Oregonian, one woman met her husband, who happened to be a prisoner, through an online dating service. (I'm not even going to tell...

Criminals usually assume that they will never get caught and be prosecuted for their dastardly deeds. (In fact, they probably don't think much about the consequences for their illegal actions until after the fact.) An article published by The Morning Call tells us about...