CHICAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) – A former municipal banker at
Bear, Stearns & Co, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to fraud
involving hospital financing that is part of a wide-ranging
probe of government corruption in Illinois.
P. Nicholas Hurtgen, who had been set to go on trial in
U.S. District Court next month, pleaded guilty to one count of
aiding and abetting a scheme to defraud Illinois’ health
facilities planning board, which was weighing a proposal Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — Miguel Tejada stood in front of a federal judge on Wednesday wearing a pair of headphones so he could listen to an interpreter. For over 10 minutes, the interpreter read to Tejada in Spanish the specifics of his plea agreement with federal prosecutors.
It was an unusual scene, a famous shortstop getting language help as he admitted his guilt in a case involving performance-enhancing drugs. But in other respects it fit in with Read the rest of this entry »

SAN JOSE, Calif.—An 51-year-old administrator at a Bay Area children’s hospital has pleaded guilty to transmitting and possessing child pornography.
Thomas Edward Green Jr., of San Jose, pleaded guilty to two felony counts Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose. Green is the director of the patient financial services department for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
Prosecutors say Green admitted that he sent at least Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday, February 8, 2009 8:50 AM PST
News as freak show took another giant leap recently with the successful birth of octuplets in California.
Everyone knows the story — or some of it, anyway. Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old mother of six, gave birth to eight more on Jan. 26.
She has never married, and all 14 babies were born through “in vitro fertilization” — implanted embryos.
Is Suleman news? Yes. Her octuplets are Read the rest of this entry »

SANFORD, Fla. – A woman accused of stealing a baby from a Sanford hospital pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
Jennifer Latham was accused of taking a newborn baby from Central Florida Regional Hospital last March. In April, Latham pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, attempted kidnapping and burglary, but reversed those pleas Tuesday.
Testimony was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, but Latham surprised the court by pleading guilty to all counts.
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February 20, 2009 06:02 pm
A Lindsey man pleaded guilty to embezzling drugs from an Ada pharmacy Friday.
United States Attorney Sheldon J. Sperling said Hugh Edward Work, 32, pleaded guilty to theft or embezzlement in connection with health care and embezzlement or theft from an Indian tribal organization.
Work was employed at a pharmacy owned by the Chickasaw Nation when the crime occurred.
“The indictment alleged that from September Read the rest of this entry »

COSTA MESA, Calif.—A woman who helped recruit patients to undergo unnecessary surgeries as part of a $154 million medical insurance fraud has pleaded guilty to 22 charges.
Sue Nanda, 40, of Costa Mesa, entered her plea Friday in Orange County Superior Court. She is scheduled to be sentenced April 24 where she faces up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Nanda worked for the now-shuttered Unity Outpatient Surgery Center in Buena Park, Read the rest of this entry »

At a news conference at Minute Maid Park in Houston last night, Tejada fought back tears as he told reporters, “I just want to apologize … I made a mistake and now I know how serious a mistake I made. I take responsibility and I’m very sorry for what happened.”
Tejada admitted in court yesterday that he lied to congressional staffers in August 2005 when they asked if he had conversations with players about performance-enhancing drugs. He claimed Read the rest of this entry »

Brownwood, Texas, doctor who pleaded guilty to sex assault allowed limited practice
07:48 PM CST on Saturday, December 20, 2008
A Brownwood, Texas, doctor who pleaded guilty in October to aggravated sexual assault of a child has been allowed to continue his practice – with restrictions – but state medical board officials could soon revoke that privilege.
Donald Delmer Pope, entered the plea in Tarrant County Read the rest of this entry »

former Boston woman who has been charged with selling her infertility drugs on the Internet plans to plead guilty, authorities have learned.
The change of plea is the latest twist in the long-running case of Heidi Benham, a 43-year-old woman who reportedly made $125,000 by selling coveted fertility medicine on the black market.
Benham was indicted in April 2008 by a U.S. District Court grand jury on eight counts of mail fraud and seven counts Read the rest of this entry »