NEW: U.S. Attorney’s Office Collects Over $3 Million in Civil & Criminal Actions in 2019
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NEW: U.S. Attorney’s Office Collects Over $3 Million in Civil & Criminal Actions in 2019
The U.S. Attorney’s Office collected a total of $3,256,549.78.
“These collection figures reflect our Office’s commitment to use all the tools at our disposal to deter illegal conduct and make the government whole when it is victimized by fraud, as well as to recover the financial fruits of crime for the benefit of victims,” said Weisman.
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Of that amount, $1,633,893.21 was collected in criminal actions and $1,622,656.57 was collected in civil actions.
According to the U.S. Attorney, of the total, approximately $535,000 was recovered in a civil penalty action brought against a major national pharmacy chain for its alleged failure to detect invalid prescriptions for controlled substances at its Rhode Island pharmacies; nearly $700,000 was recovered for false claims to the United States resulting from the supply of counterfeit military uniforms to government purchasers, and nearly $300,000 was recovered from a local ambulance company to resolve allegations that it improperly billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary ambulance runs.
Additional Collections
Additionally, the District of Rhode Island worked with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $20,833,502.89 in cases pursued jointly.
Of this amount, $4,344.30 was collected in criminal actions and $20,879,158.59 was collected in civil actions.
Additionally, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Rhode Island working with partner agencies and divisions, collected $1,234,635.00 in asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year 2019.