Tag: mail fraud
Nurse sentenced 7 years in health care fraud scheme
PROVIDENCE – A registered nurse and nurse practitioner who admitted to fraudulently billing commercial health insurers and Medicare for nearly $12 million for services...
Feds: Fake Army general scammed multiple women out of $1M
PROVIDENCE (AP) – A Texas man has been arrested for what authorities say was his role in an online romance scam in which women...
Pawtucket woman sentenced to 2 years in prison for embezzling scheme
PROVIDENCE – A Pawtucket woman was sentenced to two years in federal prison for her her scheme to defraud her employer, an auto body...
Former Providence attorney sentenced for mail fraud, pension theft
PROVIDENCE – Oleg Nikolyszyn, a former city attorney who fraudulently collected pension funds in the name of a former client following the man’s death,...
Pawtucket man sentenced to 2.5 years in jail for role in...
PROVIDENCE – Shawn Whitfield, of Pawtucket, has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison for his role in a Jamaica-based telemarketing scam that was...
Father and son jailed for fraudulent sales to defense subcontractor
PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island businessman and his son received prison terms Wednesday after pleading guilty to fraudulently selling substandard titanium to a Connecticut...