by Associated Press Published: May 2,2012
Tags: Cancer, cancer center, chemotherapy, clinic, doctors, federal agency, fraud, health, health care, medical, medicine, onccologist, oncology, physicians, trial
SUMMIT — A trial that had been scheduled to begin today has been delayed for a former cancer clinic owner and two others charged with participating in a multi-million-dollar fraud that allegedly involved diluting chemotherapy drugs and using old syringes on multiple patients. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks are charged with offenses [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 27,2012
Tags: appeal, bench, bribery, conviction, courts, judge, judicial, judicial corruption, judiciary, trial
OXFORD — A former associate of imprisoned attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has testified he opposed bribing a Hinds County judge because a friend of the jurist was feeding them information on a civil lawsuit over legal fees. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the testimony of Steve Patterson, a former state auditor, came Monday in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 22,2012
Tags: acquittal, appeal, bench, bribery, conspiracy, courts, embezzlement, executive, health, health care, hospitals, judge, judicial, judiciary, kickback, law, legal, medical, medicine, nurses, nursing, scheme, sentencing, trial
BATESVILLE — A former Mississippi hospital executive wants a federal judge to acquit him or grant a new trial in an alleged medical kickback and bribery scheme. Raymond Lamont Shoemaker of Tupelo was charged last year with receiving kickbacks for nursing services, conspiracy, embezzlement and other charges last year at Tri-Lakes Medical Center in Batesville. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 19,2012
Tags: appeal, courts, homes, houses, housing, housing authority, judge, judicial, judiciary, real estate, trial
LELAND — The former director of the South Delta Regional Housing Authority is asking a federal judge to acquit her in a fraud case or grant a new trial. Ann Jefferson was convicted March 7 in federal court in Aberdeen on two counts of embezzlement, two counts of obstruction of justice and three counts of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 28,2012
Tags: annexation, automobiles, Automotive, courts, hearing, judge, judicial, judiciary, lawsuit, manufacturer, manufacturing, taxes, trial
CANTON — A Madison County Chancery Court trial on the city of Canton’s petition to annex the Nissan North American plant has been postponed until June 2013. Canton and Nissan are also in federal court over legislation approved in 2000 that prohibits the city from annexing the plant for 30 years without the automaker’s written [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 10,2011
Tags: banking and finance, Banks, brokers, courts, financial institutions, home loans, homes, houses, loans, mortgage fraud, mortgages, real erstate, residences, sentencing, trial
JACKSON — Former mortgage brokers Jason Ellis and Michael Persac will forfeit more than $3 million and pay more than $781,000 in restitution for their part in a mortgage fraud scheme. Ellis and Persac, out on bond since they were charged in 2005 in a mortgage fraud case, also are going to prison after their [...] [...]
GREENVILLE — A federal judge has again denied a petition from Washington County tax collector Patricia Lee, who is trying to get back pay for a period when she was under suspension. The Delta Democrat Times reports Lee had asked U.S. District Judge Michael Mills to reconsider his ruling in June that the county was [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 10,2011
Tags: appeal, auctioneers, auctioning, auctions, bad checks, banking and finance, Banks, checks, courts, financial institutions, trial
JACKSON — The state Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for former auctioneer Jim Durham. Durham had been sentenced to nine years on four felony counts of writing bad checks. Durham was convicted in Forrest County in 2010. Prosecutors say Durham, former vice president of Durham Auctions, passed bad checks of more than [...] [...]
GREENVILLE — The trial of the director of a housing organization on charges of intimidating witnesses in a federal investigation has been rescheduled to Aug. 29 in federal court in Oxford. The Delta Democrat Times reports the trial for South Delta Regional Housing Authority director Ann Jefferson was rescheduled from May 23 at the request [...] [...]
ABERDEEN — William T. “Tommy” Tacker has been convicted of defrauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of $2.8 million in bioenergy subsidy money for a plant in Mississippi. Tacker was convicted Wednesday in federal court in Aberdeen and faces up to 50 years in prison. Testimony began Monday in the case of the 56-year-old [...] [...]
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