1. A Kentucky dental practice bookkeeper pleaded guilty to federal tax charges.
2. A research technician was sentenced to 21 months in prison for wire fraud after he stole an oral care company’s toothpaste formula and sent it to an overseas company.
3. A Maryland dentist pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and healthcare fraud.
4. An Alaska dentist and his wife were charged with tax evasion, conspiring to defraud the U.S., bankruptcy fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.
5. A California dentist is among 19 people charged in connection with a scheme to defraud the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan of $5 million.
6. A Georgia woman who stole more than $240,000 from nonprofits, a local dental office and the Georgia Dental Society pleaded guilty to wire fraud and was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.
7. A Wisconsin dentist who was found guilty of intentionally breaking patients’ teeth and was sentenced to four and a half years in prison with eight counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of making false statements related to healthcare.
8. Former dentist William Dalton Thomas of Hillsboro, Ohio-based New Market Family Dentistry, received a five-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to opioid fraud.
9. An Illinois dentist was charged with one count of wire fraud for allegedly fraudulently obtaining $1.2 million in medical care loans for procedures he did not perform.
