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United States Attorney's Office 
Southern District of Florida 
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, Executive Assistant 
Special Counsel 
, Chief, Criminal Division 
Deputy Chief, Criminal Division 
, Managing AUSA for the North 
Chief, Appellate Division 
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, Chief, Civil Division 
Chief, PINS 
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Environmental Crimes Section 
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Deputy Chief, Ft. Lauderdale 
Deputy Chief, West Palm Beach 
Deputy Chief, Ft. Pierce 
From: 
August 3, 2010 
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Southern District of Florida - Press Release 
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The United States Attorney's Office 
Southern District of Florida 
Press Release 
U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ANNOUNCES SAFETY INITIATIVE AT LOCAL 
SCHOOLS TO HELP COMBAT CHILD EXPLOITATION 
August 8, 2010 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Miami-Dade and Sroward School Districts Agree to Participate 
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Honda, and members tne South 
Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (SFL-ICAC), today announce, a local initiative to conduct 
Internet safety training at Miami-Dade and Broward Schools. The training will begin this fall. Today's 
announcement is part of the Department of Justice's Strategy to Combat Child Exploitation, the details of 
which were announced earlier today by Attorney General Eric Holder. 
At a noon press conference in Washington, D.C., Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Department of 
Justice's first National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction. The strategy also provides 
the first ever comprehensive threat assessment of the dangers facing children from child pornography, 
online enticement, child sex tourism, commercial sexual exploitation, and sexual exploitation in Indian 
Country, and outlines a blueprint to strengthen the fight against these crimes. The strategy builds upon the 
department's accomplishments In combating child exploitation by establishing specific, aggressive goals and 
priorities and increasing cooperation and collaboration at all levels of government and the private sector. 
As part of the overall strategy, the U.S. Marshals Service is launching a nationwide operation targeting the 
top 500 most dangerous, non-compliant sex offenders In the nation. Additionally, the department will create 
a national database to allow federal, state, tribal, local and international law enforcement partners to 
deconflict their cases with each other, engage In undercover operations from a portal facilitated or hosted by 
the database, share information and Intelligence and conduct analysis on dangerous offenders and future 
threats and trends. 
"Although we've made meaningful progress In protecting children across the country, and although we've 
brought a record number of offenders to Justice in recent years, it is time to renew our commitment to this 
work. It Is time to intensify our efforts,' said Attorney General Holder. This new Strategy provides the 
roadmap necessary to do Just that - to streamline our education, prevention and prosecution activities; to 
improve information sharing and collaboration; and to make the most effective use of limited resources. 
Together, we are sending an important message - that the U.S. government, and our nation's Department 
of Justice, has never been more committed to protecting our children and to bringing offenders to justice.' 
Since re 2006, the Department of Justice has filed 8,464 Project Safe Childhood (PSC) cases against 8,637 
defendants. These cases include prosecutions of online enticement of children to engage In sexual activity, 
interstate transportation of children to engage in sexual activity, production, distribution and possession of 
child pornography, and other offenses. In the Southern District of Florida, the number of defendants charged 
in PSC cases increased significantly from 44 defendants in FY 2006 to 82 defendants in FY 2009. 
The South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force works to combat child exploitation and is 
comprised of 64 federal, state, and local law enforcement affiliates throughout the district. These law 
enforcement agencies work closely with federal and state prosecutors to investigate and prosecute these 
cases aggressively. Each year, the Department of Justice recognizes the extraordinary efforts of the 59 
nationwide ICAC task forces. In the past two years, the Southern District of Florida's ICAC Task Force has 
earned four awards for their outstanding work in PSC-related cases. A listing of all SFL-ICAC members is 
attached to this press release. 
Part of the national strategy announced today includes a renewed commitment to public awareness and 
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community outreacn. io mis eno, me U.S. Attorneys orrice, in conjunction witn its Stl.-ILAL. partners, will 
be implementing a local Internet safety training program to be presented throughout Miami-Dade and 
Broward public schools. This hands-on innovative program will be delivered through training sessions in 
school computer labs in both school district. The goal of this program is to teach students to recognize and 
respond to deceptive or dangerous behavior occurring over the Internet. The training will be led by the Law 
Enforcement/Community Coordinator and Community Resource Specialist for the U.S. Attorney's Office, with 
ICAC support. 
U.S. Attorney Wlfredo Ferrer stated, "The Internet is a powerful tool that unites and educates all of us, but -
in the wrong hands - can be used as the weapon of choice for child pornographers and sexual predators. I 
commend the Miami-Dade and Broward School Districts for joining the Department of Justice in this crucial 
program to help educate our children about the dangers that lurk behind a computer screen. if even one 
child's life Is saved, this Internet safety training program will be a success." 
Additionally, the U.S. Attorney's Office, in partnership with the SFL-ICAC Task Force, will host a Federal 
Crimes Against Children Symposium. The two-day Symposium, scheduled for September 2010, will provide 
training to approximately 175 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers on Internet child 
pornography, child abductions, the Sex Offender Registration Act, child prostitution, the international human 
trafficking of minors, and sex tourism. 
As part of its public outreach efforts, the department today re-launched www.ProlectSafeChlidhood.aov, the 
project SafeChildhoodAPSQ-pubflt_welicite PSC Ic a  department initiative laerirhed In 20(16 that aims to 
combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. Led by U.S. 
Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC marshals 
federal, state, tribal and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit 
children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information regarding the 
National 
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Exploitation 
Prevention 
and 
Interdiction, 
please 
visit: 
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A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the 
Southern District of Florida at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls. Related court documents and information may 
be 
found on 
the 
website of the District Court for the 
Southern District of Florida 
at 
http://www.lisd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts,gov. 
Technical comments about this website can be e-mailed to the Webmaster. PLEASE NOTE: The United 
States Attorney's Office does not respond to non-technical inquiries made to this website. If you wish to 
make a request for information, you may contact our office at 305-961-9001, or you may send a written 
inquiry to the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida, 99 NE 4th Street, Miami, Fl. 
33132. 
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D0J report says child porn on the rise - 08/02/2010 I MiamiHerald.com 
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ElleMiamiHera 
Posted on Mon, Aug. 02, 2010 
DOJ report says child porn on the rise 
The Associated Press 
The spread of child pornography, fueled by technology and the Internet, is outpacing 
efforts to combat it, the Justice Department said Monday in a report to Congress that 
promises more arrests, prosecutions and better coordination among federal, state and 
local authorities. 
Attorney General Eric Holder said the distribution of child pornography, the number of 
images being shared online and violence against child victims all have increased. 
"Tragically, the only place we've seen a decrease is in the age of victims," Holder said in a 
speech at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va. 
The report, ordered by Congress in legislation approved two years ago, concedes that the 
market for child pornography continues to grow rapidly and determining its size is 
impossible. "The number of offenders accessing the images and videos and the quantity of 
images and videos being traded is unknown," the report said. 
Creating or possessing images that depict the sexual abuse of children is illegal. There is 
no First Amendment protection for child pornography. 
In announcing a national strategy for preventing child exploitation, Holder laid out several 
steps that he said would help authorities make progress: 
- The U.S. Marshals Service will target the "top 500 most dangerous" sex offenders who 
have not registered with authorities in the states where they live. 
- The Justice Department is creating a database intended to increase cooperation among 
authorities at all levels of government that investigate child porn cases. 
- Thirty-eight new prosecutors will be hired for child porn cases. 
The increased attention to fighting child pornography already has led to record numbers of 
prosecutions and tips. More than 8,600 people have been prosecuted at the federal level 
since October 2006. State and local authorities focused on the use of the Internet in child 
sexual exploitation reported that documented complaints of online enticement of children 
more than tripled from 2004 to 2008 and complaints of child prostitution rose more than 10 
times. 
8/3/2010 
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Justice lawyers plan crackdown on sex offenders - 08/02/20101 MiamiHerald.com 
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Eke Miami Herald 1 
Posted on Mon, Aug. 02, 2010 
Justice lawyers plan crackdown on sex offenders 
By LAUREN FRENCH 
McClatchy Newspapers 
The Department of Justice released its first-ever national strategy to combat child 
exploitation and abuse Monday, which calls for a crackdown on the most dangerous sex 
offenders in the country. 
The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction will assess the 
threats that children face - including child pornography, online enticement, child sex 
tourism and commercial sexual exploitation - and outline ways for the federal government 
to quell abuse. 
"Although we've made meaningful progress in protecting children across the country, and 
although we've brought a record number of offenders to justice in recent years, it is time to 
renew our commitment to this work. It is time to intensify our efforts," Attorney General Eric 
Holder said. 
Part of the strategy calls for the U.S. Marshals Service to launch a nationwide operation to 
target the 500 most dangerous, noncompliant sex offenders. 
"Together, we are sending an important message: that the U.S. government, and our 
nation's Department of Justice, has never been more committed to protecting our children 
and to bringing offenders to justice," Holder said. 
According to federal statistics, a report of child abuse is made every 10 seconds, with 
almost five children dying every day because of abuse. 
The 280-page report outlines the steps the department hopes to take and highlights work 
by federal and state authorities to crack down on abusers. One of the investigations -
Operation Cybersafe - identified more than 200 children who were victimized by a group 
whose members often competed with one another for access to victims. One of the 
defendants, unnamed in the report, said he'd had sex with more than 500 children. 
"You don't understand. You have your work, your hobbies and your family. My thoughts 
are occupied with kids and sex. When I'm at work I'm looking online for kids; when I get off 
work at 5:00 (p.m.), I'm online looking for kids for sex; when I wake up in the morning, I'm 
online looking for sex with kids," the defendant said at a U.S. attorney's office in Illinois. 
The department will create a national database to allow authorities on the federal, state, 
tribal, local and international levels to share intelligence on dangerous offenders. The 
report also calls for an additional 38 assistant U.S. attorney positions to work on child 
exploitation cases. 
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James Hmurovich, the president and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America, applauded 
Holder's efforts but said he'd like to see more preventive measures in the strategy. 
"I think it's a great enforcement initiative, but what we would like to see, and what we 
would be willing to help with, is the prevention part," Hmurovich said. "It would be better if 
(the abuse) never happened." 
Hmurovich noted that it costs the United States $104 billion a year to rehabilitate victims of 
abuse and, often, abuse victims go on to commit crimes or fail to finish their primary 
education. 
"We as a nation have to start realizing that when a child is abused, our country is hurt," he 
said. "We have to get to a place where there is a national attitude that it is unacceptable to 
abuse a child." 
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Attorney general says child porn problem increasing, despite efforts to fight it - South Flo... Page 1 of 2 
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com 
Attorney general says child porn problem increasing, despite 
efforts to fight it 
By Associated Press 
2:36 PM EDT, August 2, 2010 
WASHINGTON (AP) — The spread of child 
pornography, fueled by technology and the Internet, is 
outpacing efforts to combat it, the Justice Department 
 said-Monday-in-a report to Congress-that-promises more 
arrests, prosecutions and better coordination among 
federal, state and local authorities. 
Attorney General Eric Holder said the distribution of 
child pornography, the number of images being shared 
online and violence against child victims all have 
increased. "Tragically, the only place we've seen a 
decrease is in the age of victims," Holder said in a 
speech at the National Center for Missing and Exploited 
Children in Alexandria, Va. 
advertisement 
The report, ordered by Congress in legislation approved 
two years ago, concedes that the market for child pornography continues to grow rapidly and 
determining its size is impossible. "The number of offenders accessing the images and videos and the 
quantity of images and videos being traded is unknown," the report said. 
Creating or possessing images that depict the sexual abuse of children is illegal. There is no First 
Amendment protection for child pornography. 
In announcing a national strategy for preventing child exploitation, Holder laid out several steps that he 
said would help authorities make progress: 
— The U.S. Marshals Service will target the "top 500 most dangerous" sex offenders who have not 
registered with authorities in the states where they live. 
— The Justice Department is creating a database intended to increase cooperation among authorities at 
all levels of government that investigate child porn cases. 
— Thirty-eight new prosecutors will be hired for child porn cases. 
The increased attention to fighting child pornography already has led to record numbers of prosecutions 
and tips. More than 8,600 people have been prosecuted at the federal level since October 2006. State and 
local authorities focused on the use of the Internet in child sexual exploitation reported that documented 
complaints of online enticement of children more than tripled from 2004 to 2008 and complaints of child 
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-child-porn-justice,0,7853421,prin... 8/3/2010 
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz helps launch sex offender probe - 08/03/20101 MiamiHerald.... Page 1 of 1 
Zile Miami 
Posted on Tue, Aug. 03, 2010 
Debbie Wasserman Schultz helps launch sex offender 
probe 
Sun-Sentinel 
South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- who sponsored legislation 
to intensify and finance a nationwide child-pornography investigation targeting the 500 
most dangerous sex offenders -- praised the Justice Department's implementation on 
Monday of the law passed by Congress in 2008. 
Speaking at a press conference in Alexandria, Va., Wasserman Schultz praised the move, 
which comes with a progress report to Congress that indicates child pornography via the 
Internet is more widespread than previously known. 
"Just three years ago, we believed that child pornography was being traded over 
approximately 500,000 unique IP addresses in the U.S.," Wasserman Schultz said. 
"Thanks to this report, we now know that number is more than 20 times our original 
estimate." 
Her bill -- sponsored in the Senate by then-Sen. Joe Biden -- authorized spending up to 
$1.05 billion over eight years to hire hundreds of federal and state investigators. 
Wasserman Schultz, the mother of three, took up the cause as part of her legislative 
priority of looking after the needs of young people. 
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The United States Attorney's Office 
Southern District of Florida 
Press Release 
TWO BROTHERS PLEAD GUILTY IN MIAMI HIV INFUSION MEDICARE FRAUD 
SCHEME 
August 8, 2010 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Two brothers pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for participating in a $13.7 million HIV 
infusion Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services 
(HHS). 
Rolando Nogueira, 48, and his brother, Jose Nogueira, 52, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court 
Judge Adalberto Jordan in the Southern District of Florida to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United 
States, to cause submission of false claims to Medicare, and to pay health care kickbacks; one count of 
conspiracy to commit health care fraud; and three counts of submitting false claims. Rolando and Jose 
Nogueira were originally charged in a March 2010 indictment, At sentencing, scheduled for Nov. 5, 2010, 
the Nogueiras each face a maximum penalty of five years in prison for the conspiracy to defraud the United 
States count and each false claims count, and 10 years in prison for the health care fraud conspiracy count. 
According to plea documents, Rolando Nogueira was an owner and operator of T&R Rehabilitation 
Professional Corp., a Miami clinic that purported to provide expensive injection and infusion treatments to 
patients with HIV. Jose Nogueira worked at T&R. Rolando Nogueira admitted at his plea hearing that he 
agreed with his co-defendants and others to have them enlist patient recruiters and patients, among others, 
into a scheme to defraud Medicare. Rolando and Jose Nogueira admitted that they knew the patients at T&R 
did not need and/or did not receive the purported services, and that it would be necessary to pay kickbacks 
and bribes to the patients so that T&R could bill the Medicare program for the HIV infusion services that 
were not medically necessary and/or were not provided. 
The defendants admitted that from approximately January 2003, through approximately July 2005, they and 
their co-defendants caused T&R to submit fraudulent claims to the Medicare program in the amount of 
approximately $13.7 million. Medicare paid approximately $4.1 million of these fraudulent claims. 
Co-defendants Modesto and Victoria de la Vega pleaded guilty on July 23, 2010, and are scheduled to be 
sentenced on Nov. 5, 2010. Co-defendant Gladis Sadie is awaiting trial. 
Today's guilty pleas and sentences were announced by U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern 
District of Florida; Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; John'. Gillies , 
Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI's Miami field office; and Special Agent-in-Charge Christopher Dennis of 
the HHS Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Office of Investigations Miami office. 
The cases were prosecuted by attorneys from the Criminal Division's Fraud Section, including Mai Attorneys 
N. Nathan Dimock, Joseph Beemsterboer, and former Trial Attorney Michael Paduia. The cases were 
investigated by the FBI and HHS-O1G and were brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, 
supervised by the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District 
of Florida. 
Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in seven districts have 
obtained indictments of more than 810 individuals and organizations that collectively have billed the 
Medicare program for more than $1.85 billion. In addition, HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease 
the presence of fraudulent providers. 
To learn more about the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), go to: 
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Miami-Dade brothers plead guilty to Medicare fraud - 08/03/2010 I Miamilierald.com 
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theBaituni /fetid 
Posted on Tue, Aug. 03, 2010 
Miami-Dade brothers plead guilty to Medicare fraud 
Two Miami-Dade brothers who fled the United States to evade charges in a $13.7 million 
Medicare fraud scheme pleaded guilty on Monday in Miami federal court to several counts 
of conspiracy to commit fraud, submitting false claims and paying healthcare kickbacks. 
Rolando Nogueira, 48, and his brother Jose Nogueira, 52, owned and operated a Miami 
clinic, T&R Rehabilitation Professional Corp., catering to AIDS patients. They fled in April 
shortly after being indicted for billing the government for HIV-infusion and other medical 
services that were either not performed or needed. They were later apprehended. 
The brothers face a possible maximum sentence of 30-40 years in prison, scheduled for 
Nov. 5. 
-- RENE RODRIGUEZ 
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WASHINGTON — Two brothers pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for 
participating in a $13.7 million HIV infusion Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Departments of 
Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS). 
Rolando Nogueira, 48, and his brother, Jose Nogueira, 52, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court 
Judge Adalberto Jordan in the Southern District of Florida to one count of conspiracy to defraud the 
United States, to cause submission of false claims to Medicare, and to pay health care kickbacks; 
one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud; and three counts of submitting false claims. 
Rolando and Jose Nogueira were originally charged in a March 2010 indictment. At sentencing, 
scheduled for Nov. 5, 2010, the Nogueiras each face a maximum penalty of five years in prison for 
the conspiracy to defraud the United States count and each false claims count, and 10 years in prison 
for the health care fraud conspiracy count. 
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Two Brothers Plead Guilty in Miami HIV Infusion Medicare Fraud Scheme I Canada Vie... Page 2 of 5 
According to plea documents, Rolando Nogueira was an owner and operator of T&R Rehabilitation 
Professional Corp., a Miami clinic that purported to provide expensive injection and infusion 
treatments to patients with HIV. Jose Nogueira worked at T&R. Rolando Nogueira admitted at his 
plea hearing that he agreed with his co-defendants and others to have them enlist patient recruiters and 
patients, among others, into a scheme to defraud Medicare. Rolando and Jose Nogueira admitted that 
they knew the patients at T&R did not need and/or did not receive the purported services, and that it 
would be necessary to pay kickbacks and bribes to the patients so that T&R could bill the Medicare 
jam=  for the HIV infusion services that were not medically necessary and/or were not provided. 
The defendants admitted that from approximately January 2003, through approximately July 2005, 
they and their co-defendants caused T&R to submit fraudulent claims to the Medicare program in the 
amount of approximately $13.7 million. Medicare paid approximately $4.1 million of these fraudulent 
claims. 
Co-defendants Modesto and Victoria de la Vega pleaded guilty on July 23, 2010, and are scheduled to 
be sentenced on Nov. 5, 2010. Co-defendant Gladis Badia is awaiting trial. 
Today's guilty pleas and sentences were announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer 
of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida; John'. 
Gillies , Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI's Miami field office; and Special Agent-in-Charge 
Christopher Dennis of the HHS Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Office of Investigations 
Miami office. 
The cases were prosecuted by attorneys from the Criminal Division's Fraud Section, including Trial 
Attorneys N. Nathan Dimock, Joseph Beemsterboer, and former Trial Attorney Michael Padula. The 
cases were investigated by the FBI and HHS-O1G and were brought as part of the Medicare Fraud 
Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office for 
the Southern District of Florida. 
Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in seven districts have 
obtained indictments of more than 810 individuals and organizations that collectively have billed the 
Medicare program for more than $1.85 billion. In addition, HHS's Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with e HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase 
accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers. 
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Dos personas se declaran culpables de fraude por 13 millones dólares Medicare - South FI... Page 1 of 1 
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com 
Dos personas se declaran culpables de fraude por 13 millones 
dólares Medicare 
August 2, 2010 
Miami, 2 ago 
Dos hispanos se declararon hoy culpables de conspirar 
para cometer fraude contra el programa federal de salud 
Medicare por 13,7 millones de dólares a través de falsas 
 facturas-de-servicios-a-pacientes con-el-virus de 
inmunodeficiencia humana (V111). 
Rolando Nogueira, de 48 años, y su hermano José 
Nogueira, de 52, se declararon culpables ante un tribunal 
de Miami de cinco cargos en su contra: uno por 
"conspirar para defraudar a EE.UU. y pagar sobornos", 
otro por "fraude al cuidado de la salud" y tres más por 
"presentar falsas reclamaciones en facturas". 
Cada uno de los hermanos podría ser condenado a un 
máximo de diez años de cárcel, señaló en un 
comunicado la Fiscalía Federal del distrito sur de 
Florida. 
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Según los documentos de la declaración de culpabilidad, Rolando Noguera era el propietario y operaba 
personalmente T&R Rehabilitation Professional Corp, una clínica que supuestamente proveía de 
tratamientos a pacientes con VIII en la que trabajaba también su hermano José. 
Rolando Nogueira admitió en su declaración de culpabilidad que se puso de acuerdo con otros que captó 
para tramar una red de fraude al Medicare. 
"Rolando y José Nogueira reconocieron que conocían que los pacientes de T&R no necesitaban o no 
recibían los tratamientos" presentados y que "pagaban sobornos a los pacientes para que la compañía 
pudiera facturar al Medicare por servicios de transfusiones por VIII que no eran necesarios o que no se 
realizaban", indicó la Fiscalía. 
Los dos hermanos admitieron que, desde enero de 2003 hasta aproximadamente julio de 2005, ellos y 
otros compinches defraudaron al Medicare con falsas facturas por unos 13,7 millones de dólares. EFE 
emi/esc 
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259 victims of Rothstein fraud are owed $279 million, prosecutors say - South Florida Su... Page 1 of 2 
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com 
259 victims of Rothstein fraud are owed $279 million, prosecutors 
say 
Disbarred lawyer's seized assets are far too little to cover restitution 
By Peter Franceschina, Sun Sentinel 
7:03 PM EDT, August 2, 2010 
Federal prosecutors have determined Scott Rothstein had 
more than-250 victims of his-massive-investment fraud 
scheme who are entitled to upward of a quarter-billion 
dollars in restitution. 
Whether investors who lost money in Florida's largest 
Ponzi scheme will ever recover a substantial share of 
their funds remains unclear 
the legal process in 
bankruptcy court could go on for several years. 
As far as restitution in Rothstein's criminal case, the sum 
of ill-gotten gains recovered so far by the government 
doesn't come anywhere near covering the amount 
prosecutors now say should be returned to his victims. 
Investors will still have a chance for recovering at least 
some of their money in the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler 
law firm bankruptcy case. 
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U.S. District Judge James Cohn, who is overseeing the staggeringly complex restitution operation, has 
said he hopes to complete the process by the end of this month. Prosecutors filed a report late Friday to 
update the judge on the status of the government's restitution efforts, and Cohn on Monday adopted the 
prosecution's guidelines for determining who will get restitution. 
Prosecutors determined 97 potential victims — representing $120 million in claims — aren't entitled to 
the amounts they claim, either because they don't qualify for restitution under federal law or they failed 
to provide sufficient documentation of their claim. Prosecutors will continue to review those claims and 
update the judge. 
Another 116 potential victims could not be found, prosecutors reported. Some potential victims did not 
complete restitution paperwork or declined to participate in the restitution process, prosecutors said. 
Prosecutors are still reviewing a dozen claims. 
The 259 people or corporate entities whose claims were approved in total or in part are entitled to $279 
million in restitution, prosecutors said. 
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The investors are identified not by name in the court filings, but by a seven-digit identification number. 
Cohn ordered prosecutors to refile their report with the individual and corporate names by Friday. 
"In calculating the recommended amount of pecuniary loss to be awarded as restitution to the investor-
victims, the government has employed the 'cash-in/cash-out method,' whereby the total amount invested 
by a victim during the scheme is reduced by the amount which the victim received as payments during 
the scheme, thus yielding a net loss to the victim as the determined restitution amount," prosecutors 
wrote in their report. 
The assets seized from Rothstein — his homes, luxury cars and yachts, cash, jewelry — are not worth 
anything near the $279 million overall restitution figure, so victims will likely be getting pennies on the 
dollar. Rothstein's cars and yachts sold for $5.8 million in June, and prosecutors are no longer trying to 
obtain title to four of his Fort Lauderdale properties because they were heavily mortgaged. 
The law firm bankruptcy trustee and prosecutors have been wrangling over Rothstein's seized assets. 
Two dozen of Rothstein's investors and three dozen law firm clients have filed claims to those assets. 
 Prosecutors said-that-law-firm-clients who-lost-funds held in escrow are as entitled to seek restitution as 
people or companies that lost money in Rothstein's investment swindle. 
The judge will hold a series of hearings before entering final restitution payments to the victims. People 
who have disputed claims will have a chance to make their case before Cohn. Prosecutors did not say 
how much they have available to repay the victims. 
Rothstein, 48, a disbarred Fort Lauderdale attorney, is serving a 50-year prison sentence after pleading 
guilty to racketeering, money laundering and fraud. 
Peter Franceschina can be reached at pfranceschinatasunsentinet corn or 954-459-2255. 
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Feds say $188M restitution due in Rothstein case 
The Associated Press 
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to approve more than $188 million in restitution 
for victims of the Ponzi scheme operated by former Florida attorney Scott Rothstein. 
Prosecutors said in a filing last week that they have identified 218 people with legitimate 
claims. More can be added if they provide proper documentation of losses. 
Assets including cash, real estate, houses, boats and jewelry have been seized from 
Rothstein. But officials say the value is far less than $188 million, so victims will likely only 
get a portion of their money back. An Aug. 30 court hearing is scheduled to finalize the 
numbers. 
Rothstein is serving a 50-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges of running a 
$1.2 billion scheme in which he bilked investors using faked legal settlements. 
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F
adore, prosecutors have outlined their restitution plan in Scott Rothstein's criminal case 
for 218 victims of his Ponzi fraud, saying they have legitimate claims totaling $188 
million. 
The recovery percentage remains to be seen as the government culls what is left of the one-
time power brokers fallen empire through confiscated cash and the sale of homes, cars, boats, 
jewelry and other luxury items. 
U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn in Fort Lauderdale has set an Aug. 30 deadline for the 
restitution to victims of the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. Rothstein is serving a 50-year prison 
sentence. 
The government is certain to have far less than $188 million to distribute, officials said. 
Herbert Stettin, the court-appointed trustee for Rothstein's defunct Fort Lauderdale law firm, has 
criticized the government for insisting it be the main distributor of funds rather than the 
bankruptcy court. 
Attorney Paul Singerman, a Berger Singerrnan partner representing Stettin, said he wants to study Me Ming and exhibits. He 
said the trustee already has spent countless hours going over claims. 
"I will be very interested to see the government's methodology; he said. 
More people with legitimate claims may be added to the list, but prosecutors have excluded 97 people seeking restitution. 
Restitution will be made through a cash-iNcash-out methodology accounting for investments and supposed earnings during the 
course of the fraud. 
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Epstein may be under new sex crime scrutiny from feds 
Authorities may not be done.with billionaire sexual deviant Jeffrey Epstein 
Lion, also a felony 
after all.. 
Epstein, St who men* fulfilled all 
the requirements of his slap-on-the-wrist 
sentence for diddling underage girls 
in his Palm Bench transient may be 
under investigation for other sex 
including child trafficking. 
And this time, Epstein would be facing 
the federates— and 20 years in prisoni 
According to the news welsite The 
Doily Beast, the reds are also chedting 
whether a modeling agency-run by a 
friend ofthe Wall Street investor Epstein. 
fed bis appetite for underage foreign 
Epstein 
giliS. Epstein was known to 
fly young women from East-
ern Europe to Palm Beech, 
where they'd massage him, 
among other services. 
Because of double jeopa • 
ardY rules, Epstein —now. 
— now 
a registered Florida sex 
offender— can never be 
prosecuted again for crimes covered by 
the state charges. He pleaded guilty to 
felony solicitation of:prostitution and 
procuring a person under 18 for prostitu-
Child trafficking however, would 
offer two advantages to federal prosecu-
tors: The charge would not be cowed
by double jeopardy; arid therek no stat-
ute of limitations! 
Epstein% criminal boner, Jack Gold-
berger, didn't return calls for comment. 
. Ama Clinton crony who once walked 
out of a deposition when questions about 
the shape of big peals arose, Epstein 
felt some heath= federal prosecutors 
early in his case, in 2007. The LIS'De-
partment of lostiev cane in after former 
Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, 
whose cops spent more than a year 
investigating Epstein, complained that 
then-State Attorney Ram gristlier wasn't 
aggressive enough in his prosecution of 
the billionaire 
But Epstein hired a dream team of 
lawyers, including Harvard prof Nan Ber-
thold& and Whitewater prosecutor Ken 
Starr, who warded off federal authorities. 
As punishment for his guilty pleas, 
Epstein served a year in a county lockup 
(but only at night, because he gut to go 
to his office every morning) and a year 
on probation that included trips to the 
Caribbean. 
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com 
It takes real partners to battle public corruption 
THE ISSUE: Law enforcement embrace anti-corruption efforts. 
August 3, 2010 
Public corruption reform is a big deal in Palm Beach County. How 
else to explain the embrace of new ethics initiatives, including the 
creation of an inspector general's office and the possibility of a 
November vote to give that office jurisdiction over municipal 
governments as well as county government? 
Now-eomos local law enforcement with an ethics bureaucracy of 
its own. 
State Attorney Michael McAuliffe recently announced the creation 
of a Public Corruption Task Force that would investigate elected 
officials suspected of criminal activities. 
McAuliffe has the support of Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, who jarred 
many reform supporters by initially refusing to voluntarily submit 
his office to be under the oversight of the inspector general and, 
more recently, ordering his employees to skip the county's new ethics training courses. 
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Unfortunately, Bradshaw insists the new ethics code and training don't apply to him or his employees, which at 
best suggests a tone-deafness to a government reform that enjoys widespread support. 
Palm Beach County like its South Florida counterparts, has seen its share of elected officials charged and 
convicted of federal crimes. Unlike Broward and Miami-Dade counties, the grassroots push to enact major ethics 
reform caught fire and is now a political reality in palm Beach County. 
Bradshaw's sentiments aside, there is a crucial role law enforcement must play if ethics reform has a chance of 
working. The county inspector general's powers only go so far. Criminal investigations and prosecution clearly fall 
under the purview of the sheriff and state attorney, respectively. 
A strong working relationship between the three agencies is essential. Clearly, the inspector general will need the 
help of law enforcement to put any real teeth into the program. McAuliffe and Bradshaw, on the other hand, can't 
wrap themselves within a new bureaucracy and run roughshod over the inspector general's efforts, either. 
Ethics reform remains a work in progress in many parts of Florida. It would be a shame if the strides to bring 
ethics reform to Palm Beach County fall victim to bureaucratic infighting. 
BOTTOM LINE: Law enforcement must work with inspector general to make reform work. 
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Updated: 7:10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 
Posted: 6:08 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 
After a series of morning briefings, President Barack Obama will sign the Fair Sentencing Act in the Oval 
Office on Tuesday. 
The legislation narrows the disparity between sentences for crack cocaine possession and those for 
powder cocaine. 
In the afternoon, the president will host a town hall meeting in the East Room. It's part of his Forum With 
Young African Leaders. The event brings 115 young leaders from more than 40 African countries to 
Washington to meet with their American counterparts and U.S. government officials. 
Obama will discuss with them their vision for Africa for the next 50 years. He also will talk with them 
about partnerships that can be fostered between the U.S. and their countries. 
August 03, 2010 06:08 AM EDT 
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