USA v. Oxendine
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July 12, 2024
Ex-Ga. Insurance Chief Gets 3½ Years For Kickback Scheme
John Oxendine, the former four-term Georgia insurance commissioner who pled guilty this year to working with a doctor to run a multimillion-dollar medical testing kickback scheme, was hit with a 3½-year prison sentence by a Georgia federal judge Friday.
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July 08, 2024
Ex-Ga. Insurance Chief Wants Lighter Term In Kickback Case
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has objected to the government's recommendation that he serve 44 months in prison and pay a $700,000 fine for his role in a multimillion-dollar medical testing kickback scheme, arguing that he is deserving of a lesser sentence.
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March 22, 2024
Ex-Ga. Insurance Head Cops To Healthcare Kickback Scheme
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine pled guilty Friday to working with an Atlanta-area doctor to run a multimillion-dollar medical testing kickback scheme just weeks before he was set to face trial in federal court.
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September 25, 2023
Trial Set In Ex-Ga. Insurance Chief's Fraud, Kickbacks Case
Georgia's former insurance commissioner is set to face trial in April on criminal health care fraud and money laundering charges alleging that he participated in a $2.5 million kickbacks case involving unnecessary medical testing.
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September 12, 2023
Ex-Ga. Insurance Chief Says His Fraud Trial Hinges On $42
John Oxendine, an attorney and former Georgia insurance commissioner, has told a Georgia federal court that unless a $42 check can be connected to the $2.5 million criminal health care kickback scheme in which he allegedly participated, the case against him fails, arguing that he should not face trial despite a magistrate judge's recommendations.
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August 29, 2023
Ex-Ga. Insurance Chief Should Face Trial, Judge Says
The criminal case against former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine is ready for trial, a federal magistrate judge said, recommending the denial of all of Oxendine's requests and agreeing with prosecutors that the term "kickbacks" appropriately applies to the health care fraud scheme he's accused of participating in.
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July 14, 2023
Feds Say Ex-Ga. Insurance Head Can't Dodge Fraud Charges
Federal prosecutors hit back at indicted former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine on Friday, telling a court there to deny his requests to toss the case against him and bar the word "kickbacks" and his own statements regarding a health care fraud scheme the government claims he was involved in.
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February 15, 2023
Ex-Georgia Insurance Head Wants Kickback Statements Cut
Attorneys for a former Georgia insurance commissioner who was indicted over his suspected involvement in a health care kickback scheme told a Georgia federal judge on Wednesday that statements he made to investigators in 2020 must be suppressed because they were improperly obtained.
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November 07, 2022
Ex-Ga. Insurance Head Wants Kickbacks Indictment Tossed
A former Georgia insurance commissioner who later founded his own insurance firm has asked a Georgia federal judge to toss an indictment over his alleged involvement in a health care kickback scheme.
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May 23, 2022
Ex-Ga. Insurance Head Pleads Not Guilty To Lab Kickbacks
A former Georgia insurance commissioner who then founded his own insurance law firm has pled not guilty to federal health care fraud and money laundering charges over $2.5 million in health insurance claims for allegedly unnecessary testing at a Texas laboratory.