A fourth employee of the New Jersey Mobile Dentist program pleaded guilty to cheating Medicaid through a false billing scheme that netted the business more than $1.3 million.

Already sentenced to an eight-year federal prison term, a former Salem County, N.J., investment broker received additional time in state prison.

Three pharmacies and seven people from Essex County, N.J., were indicted by a state grand jury on charges they allegedly submitted more than $2.3 million dollars in false Medicaid claims, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s office.

Five years after investors filed suit over loses they say were linked to the company failure to disclose illegal practices, Marsh & McLennan Co. has reached a settlement.

Two rings of alleged drug dealers, including several doctors and pharmacists, were arrested in connection with the black-market distribution in New Jersey of thousands of prescription pain pills, many of which were paid for through Medicaid and private insurance.

Five New Jersey residents were indicted by separate grand juries for falsely reporting the theft of their cars, which had actually been instead sold to undercover police officers.

A Passaic County, N.J., man was placed on probation and ordered to pay $12,140 in restitution to Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. for fraudulently using his father’s insurance plan to obtain prescription pain medicine.

A New Jersey man and three of his businesses named as defendants in a lawsuit by the state attorney general’s office over an alleged Ponzi scheme will pay $7 million in restitution and another $220,000 in civil penalties.

The owner of a Lake Hopatcong, N.J., paving company was indicted for allegedly failing to provide workers’ compensation coverage to his employees, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.

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An Atlantic County, N.J., surgeon, his office manager and the business where they worked were indicted on charges of defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies of more than $8.5 …  Read →