Florida v Simmons
Mar 12, 2015OUTCOME: Adjudicated on Patient Brokering and GT > $10K ; 6 months jail + 9 yrs probation
Medicaid provider conspired with 2 others to defraud Medicaid out of more than $13,000 for services billed but never provided
Tallahassee, FL
State, local, and municipal law Lawyer at Tallahassee, FL
Practice Areas: State, Local And Municipal Law, Health Care
OUTCOME: Adjudicated on Patient Brokering and GT > $10K ; 6 months jail + 9 yrs probation
Medicaid provider conspired with 2 others to defraud Medicaid out of more than $13,000 for services billed but never provided
OUTCOME: Plea to grand theft
Defendant filed false claims w Medicaid for services never provided.
OUTCOME: Settlement $2.39 million
Whistleblower / False Claims Act case where medical device company was paying kickbacks to doctors by paying $500 for bogus "studies" on their devices. US intervened in the matter, and a settlement wa ... s reached.
OUTCOME: Not Guilty*
* Mr. H. was initially found guilty of two counts of child molestation; however, due to ineffective assistance of his defense lawyers, the verdict had to be overturned. On his second trial, involving ... new lawyers for both sides, Mr. H. was found not guilty.
OUTCOME: Trasaction Completed
This was the Sale of Assets of two nursing homes located in West Tenneessee. The Attorney General's Office reviewed the sale of assets of the two nonprofit corporations to a for profit corporation, pu ... rsuant to the Tennessee Nonprofit Corporations Act, and did not object to the transaction.
OUTCOME: Completed Transaction
This matter was a review of a change in management for a hospital district located in East Tennessee to a hospital management corporation in Middle Tennessee. The transaction was completed after revie ... w by the Attorney General's Office pursuant to the Public Benefit Hospital Conveyance Transaction Act.
OUTCOME: Guilty
This defendant, charged with failure to register as a sex offender, tried to represent himself.
OUTCOME: Guilty
First degree burglary/battery. 35 months Dept. of Corrections. This was a case where two drug addicts attacked a man in his car at a gas station and stole his wallet. The victim went AWOL for trial, ... but, thankfully, the eyewitnesses showed up.
OUTCOME: Hung Jury, Not Guilty
Mitchell was the ring leader in a strand of 30 or so gypsy burlgaries in the Tampa Bay area. Because they targeted elderly victims and brought in questionable alibi witnesses, Mitchell got a hung jury ... and a not guilty at the retrial. However, teh State of Florida eventually prevailed on a second charge, and Mitchell served prison time as a result.
OUTCOME: Guilty 6 cts bank robbery, 1 ct attempt robbery
Weber robbed 5 banks in Pinellas county and was caught in the act of robbing his 6th. He is serving a 20 year prison sentence after pleading to all charges. He also has an ICE hold on him as he is a ... German citizen.