“If I sent him 25 prescriptions, within 20 or 30 minutes, they were signed,” the onetime employee of Sunrise Medical Inc. of Florida told jurors in the Dallas trial of Dr. David M. Young.
Dallas Trial Begins for Physician Indicted in $39M Medicare Fraud
Dr. David M. Young of Fredericksburg, Texas, is accused of electronically prescribing orthotic devices and genetic tests for thousands of patients he never met. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr told the 14 jurors and alternates chosen Tuesday that the trial is expected to take about two weeks.
‘Rarer Than a Hen’s Tooth’ – Jury Deadlocks in Waco Patent Case
Hung juries, in general, are infrequent. One study estimates they occur in about 6 percent of all cases that go to trial. When it happens, it’s usually in state criminal cases where someone’s life or freedom is at stake, not in highly technical disputes over a patent.
Testimony Ends in ExxonMobil’s $1.9B Lawsuit Against IRS
In lieu of closing arguments, the company and the U.S. government agreed to file post-trial briefs with Chief Judge David C. Godbey of the Northern District of Texas, who presided over the weeklong tax dispute trial stemming from ExxonMobil’s natural-gas mining venture with Qatar.
ExxonMobil Demands IRS Refund, Claiming $1.9B Tax Overpayment
In a bench trial before Chief Judge David C. Godbey of the Northern District of Texas, the oil giant claims the government erred by rejecting, for tax purposes, its “partnership” with the government of Qatar in a huge natural gas project.
Operator of Phony Labs Gets 5 Years in $7M COVID-19 Testing Scam
“I make no excuse for my actions,” Connie Jo Clampitt of Dallas, one of four people to plead guilty in the healthcare fraud case, tells U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr.
FW SEC Office Penalizes NY Investment Firm $6.5M for Failure to Preserve Electronic Records
According to an SEC order, employees of Senvest Management, which oversees $3 billion in assets, repeatedly discussed company business in personal texts and other “off-channel” platforms in violation of federal securities laws.
Retired Dallas FBI Agent’s Accomplice in Bizarre ‘Secret Probation’ Scam Gets 70 Months
Joseph DeLeon, who helped former FBI agent Bill Stone cheat a Granbury woman out of more than $750,000, apologized and said he, too, was a victim of the grift. But U.S. District Judge Ada Brown was having none of it.
As FW Trial Begins, Tax Preparer Pleads to $2.6M Scam
Federal investigators said Anthony Floyd of Kennedale, Texas, would tweak tax returns he prepared for clients, causing the government to overpay refunds, which he then pocketed.
Judge Twice Rebukes Ex-Associate Suing Berg & Androphy During Contentious Testimony
The unusual admonition from the bench came on the third and final day of testimony in Justin Pfeiffer’s breach-of-contract suit against Berg & Androphy, his former employer.