MIAMI, FL -- The former owner of a Miami medical clinic has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in connection with a $3.7 million scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting fraudulent billings from the clinic and by supplying patients to three home health agencies that submitted fraudulent bills.
Fifty-three-year-old Juliette Anais Tamayo, who owned Sunshine Medical Care Group, Inc., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care... [...]
Miami-Dade County is facing a lawsuit for its role in the saga of Ingrid Johnson, the newborn baby seized by Miccosukee tribal police at Baptist Hospital in Kendall.
It was nearly one year ago that tribal police, accompanied by Miami-Dade Police Kendall District officers, took the baby from her Miccosukee mother — against the woman’s will — at the hospital more than 30 miles from the reservation.
The tribe returned the child... [...]
A court hearing was held Tuesday morning on a complaint filed by a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School security monitor, who claims he is being harassed by the father of one of the 17 victims of the shooting.
Andrew Medina was seeking a protective order against Andrew Pollack.
The judge hearing the case made several rulings regarding civil lawsuits against Medina:
1) Scope of Medina’s history is limited to the... [...]
The man who pulled a gun on a group of black teens who were protesting on Brickell Avenue on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is now facing a host of charges that were enhanced because of a hate crime bill passed by Florida legislators.
In addition to the felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon, Mark Bartlett is now facing three counts of aggravated assault with prejudice, which are second-degree felonies and a single count of improperly... [...]
Helping run a $7 Million health care fraud out of a West Miami-Dade businees cost Rossana Ramirez a few years of freedom and her certified nursing assistant license permanently.
The Florida Department of Health dropped an Emergency Suspension Order (ESO) on Ramirez’s certified nursing assistant license after she pleaded guilty last fall in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Ramirez’s home address... [...]
