Rashad Lamond Anderson, 23, of Tampa, Annecia Bellandra Larkins, 23, and Tavin Gernard Larkins, 23, both of Havana, and Almecia Endelease Pillers, 21, of Quincy, were sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Mark Walker after pleading guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States, theft of government property, and aggravated identity theft charges. The…
Month: November 2014
Miami Home Health Agency Owner And Operator Pleads Guilty For Role In Multiple Medicare Fraud Schemes
An owner and operator of a Miami home health care agency pleaded guilty today in connection with a long-running $6.2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving Professional Medical Home Health LLC (Professional Home Health), and similar schemes at two other Miami home health care agencies. U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida,…
Anonymous dumps KKK leader’s personal info online in ongoing Ferguson dispute
Travis Gettys reports: The online hacker collective Anonymous dumped a trove of personal information online belonging to alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan. The “hacktivist” group claims to have taken control this week of the @KuKluxKlanUSA Twitter account in an ongoing dispute between the two groups over Wilson’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen and the resulting…
Update: Former Parkland Hospital Employee Admits Stealing Patient Information To Market His Home Health Agency In Garland, Texas
A former employee at Parkland Hospital in Dallas appeared in federal court yesterday and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver, to a federal felony offense stemming from his theft of patient information from the hospital, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña. Viju Mathew, 49, of Garland, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of…
UK: Medway Maritime Hospital accidentally faxes patient's records to a vet
Gareth Arnold reports: Confidential medical records have been fly tipped, lost, emailed to the public and even faxed to a vet. Staff at several trusts have been dismissed for data protection breaches including accessing patients’ records without permission, losing notes and sharing details with third parties. Since 2011, Medway NHS Foundation Trust has recorded 10…
Oops: After Threatening Hacker With 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor
Andy Greenberg reports: Thanks in part to America’s ill-defined hacking laws, prosecutors have enormous discretion to determine a hacker defendant’s fate. But in one young Texan’s case in particular, the Department of Justice stretched prosecutorial overreach to a new extreme: about 440 years too far. Last week, prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas reached…