Press Releases: 2012

Attorney General Sam Olens made the following statement regarding the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling on HB 87, Georgia’s immigration reform law.

On August 9, 2012, a Cobb County Grand Jury indicted former Department of Labor (DOL) employee Peter Brown on one count of Bribery O.C.G.A. 16-10-2(a)(2).

Dimitrius Franks, of Fairburn, Georgia, pled guilty last week in Fulton County Superior Court to one count of Medicaid Fraud (O.C.G.A. § 49-4-146.1(b)(1)), three counts of Computer Theft (O.C.G.A § 16-9-93(a)), and three counts of Theft by Taking (O.C.G.A. § 16-8-2).

Attorney General Sam Olens has announced that the State of Georgia, as part of a national settlement with 29 other states against the McKesson Corporation, has resolved allegations that McKesson violated the Federal False Claims Act and various state false claims acts.

The former owner of Georgia Family Services, Inc. (GFSS), a Medicaid provider, and her employee will serve prison time for stealing over $220,000.00 from Georgia Medicaid.

On Monday, July 23, 2012, Attorney General Sam Olens and a bi-partisan group of state attorneys general filed an amicus brief opposing a recent order by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which vastly oversteps the commission’s statutory authority.

Seven additional defendants who were indicted for their role in an extensive tobacco trafficking ring have entered guilty pleas.

On July 19, 2012, a Cobb County jury convicted former Kennesaw State University (KSU) Bagwell College of Education Dean Dr. Yiping Wan of two counts False Statements and Writings (O.C.G.A § 16-10-20).

Shayan Panjwani, a former Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) student, pled guilty today in Fulton County Superior Court to two counts of Computer Trespass (O.C.G.A. § 16-9-93 (b)) for illegally logging into Georgia Tech’s grading system and changing his grades.

Attorney General Sam Olens announced today that Georgia, other states and the federal government have reached an agreement in principle for the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.