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Fourteen Convicted in Georgia Dog Fighting Case
Fourteen Convicted in Georgia Dog Fighting Case
**Albany, GA** – All 14 defendants involved in a federal dog fighting case in Albany, Georgia, have been convicted. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia accepted guilty pleas from individuals including Tamichael Elijah, Marvin Pulley III, Brandon Baker, Christopher Travis Beaumont, Herman Buggs Jr., Terrance Davis, Timothy Freeman, Terelle Ganzy, Gary Hopkins, Cornelious Johnson, Rodrecus Kimble, Donnametric Miller, Willie Russell, and Fredricus White.
According to court documents, the defendants gathered on April 24, 2022, at a property in Donalsonville, Georgia, for a large-scale dog fighting event. The event involved 24 pit bull-type dogs brought for fights over the weekend. Law enforcement officials intervened and discovered numerous dogs in crates within vehicles on the property.
Dogs were stored in vehicles after fighting or while waiting for turns in the fighting pit, and some were kept on chains at the venue. A total of 27 dogs were rescued, including one with severe injuries that later died. Others displayed recent injuries and scars indicative of past fights.
Aside from Freeman, all defendants pleaded guilty to
California Man Convicted in $4 Million Medicare Fraud
California Man Convicted in $4 Million Medicare Fraud
**DETROIT, MI** – A federal jury convicted a man from California for defrauding Medicare of over $4 million through fraudulent urine drug testing claims. Sherif Khalil, 50, of Redondo Beach, was found guilty of submitting claims for tests that were not requested by doctors.
Khalil owned Spectra Clinical Labs, a toxicology lab in Gardena, California, and was involved in a scheme where he paid marketers for obtaining expensive drug test orders from doctors. The payments were disguised by channeling them through marketing companies under Khalil’s control.
Medicare paid out over $4 million for these unnecessary tests, resulting from the illegal kickbacks. Khalil faces sentencing on August 7, with potential penalties of up to 20 years for health care fraud and five years for conspiracy related charges.
The case was announced by officials from the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Trial Attorneys prosecuted the case as part of the Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program.
