Released 21 March 2019

OIG Investigations Newsletter

December 1, 2018–January 31, 2019

Volume XX

>New York Pharmaceutical Sales Rep Pleads Guilty to Defrauding

Health Care Benefit Programs of $5.8 Million

>California Farm Labor Contractor Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to

Exploit the H-2A Program and its Farmworkers

>Honduran Siblings Sentenced for Their Roles in a Scheme to Evade Over $6.5 Million in

Mandatory Federal Payroll Taxes

>Detroit Man Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Illegal

Gun Possession

>Las Vegas Woman Sentenced for Her Role in an Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme

>Former Los Angeles Dockworker Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding the ILWU Health Plan

>New York Union President and Benefit Plan Trustee Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for

Decade Long Embezzlement and Kickback Scheme

>California Woman Pleads Guilty to Theft and Embezzlement from a Federally Funded Charity

>Senior Official of the UAW Chrysler Department Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy to Violate

the Labor Management Relations Act