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Miami-Area Man Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Role in $63 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
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Miami, Florida - A Miami-area man was sentenced to 60 months in prison today for his role in a $63 million health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct community mental health center located in Miami that purported to provide partial hospitalization program (PHP) services to individuals suffering from mental illness.
DEA Joins Local Law Enforcement Partners in Nationwide Take Back of Opioids and Other Prescription Drugs
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The Drug Enforcement Administration will join forces tomorrow with more than 4,000 local, tribal, and community partners at more than 5,000 collection sites to collect potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. The effort will help prevent these drugs, including opioids, from falling into the wrong hands and contributing to a lethal drug abuse epidemic in the United States.
Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks at the Heritage Foundation’s Legal Strategy Forum
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Washington, DC - Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks at the Heritage Foundation's Legal Strategy Forum - Thursday, October 26, 2017:
NIST Experts Urge Caution in Use of Courtroom Evidence Presentation Method
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Two experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are calling into question a method of presenting evidence in courtrooms, arguing that it risks allowing personal preference to creep into expert testimony and potentially distorts evidence for a jury.
Department of Justice Highlights Consumer Benefits of Competition Among Court Reporters
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The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division Friday submitted a statement on the potential anticompetitive effects of legislative proposals that could result in a ban or limitation on contracts between local California court reporters or service firms and third parties, such as insurance companies, for more than one deposition at a time, also known as third-party contracts. Such regulation of court-reporting services can raise barriers to entry, restrict competition and limit potentially cost-saving options available to consumers.
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