Texas

Bill and Deborah Lucas were already experienced fraudsters by the time the pandemic came around. For almost a decade, the duo claimed to be pastors of a defunct church called Jesus Survive Ministries. Using fake documents about their payroll, they were able to successfully...

It’s not always easy to get patients to comply in assisting with medical fraud. It took some creative thinking by Doctor Sekhar Rao to entice patients in his Medicare scheme, but gift cards seemed to do the trick in aiding him in filing roughly...

Some people would say their marriage feels like a prison, where desire to escape in search of personal freedom is a common feeling. The most reliable way to actually make a marriage turn into a prison stay is to pay for a sham marriage,...

Naomi Moore was the owner of two Houston based businesses, Friend’s Place and Metro Health Services, that were both advertised as home health care service businesses. But after thirteen years of receiving and reimbursing invoices from Moore, the Department of Health and Human Services...

No parent should have to bury their child. And no parent should have to worry that their deceased child’s identity has been stolen. It should be a place any fraudster would not go. But, unfortunately, that is the case for the two pairs of...

Two Brownsville women were sentenced to Federal prison Wednesday for their roles in a $1.2 million food stamp fraud that included but not limited to buying nearly 50 tons of cheese slices, the U.S. Department of Justice said. That is about 4,900 slices! Ana Rioja,...

Xiaojian Tao and Yu “Laura” Long are facing several charges due to their involvement in a  number of criminal activities. The married couple’s alleged scheme to defraud a research and development company that provided services to industrial and government clients in the United States...

Jamie Aguilar, a Mexican national, was sentenced in Del Rio, Tex., to a 45-month prison term after pleading guilty to one count of Theft of Public Money. (No surprise here that another fraudster is not who they claim to be.) In May 2006, the 60-year-old,...

Two doctors, Dr. Mark E. Gibbs and Dr. Laila Hirjee, helped Novus Health Services, a hospice agency, to defraud Medicare in Dallas, Tex. Gibbs and Hirjee, who served as Medical Directors for Novus, partnered with a nurse and several high-ranking members and staff of...

Peripheral Vascular Associates, a full-service vascular surgery practice with multiple locations in San Antonio, Tex., was ordered to pay $8.1 million in damages for submitting more than 7,000 fraudulent Medicare claims, according to evidence provided to court by three whistleblowers. These witnesses alleged that...