Latest sentencings in federal court in Erie reveal more of how Hertel & Brown Physical & Aquatic Therapy defrauded public and private health insurers by tens of millions of dollars. The clinic's ...

U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter sentenced owners of Erie-based Hertel & Brown Physical & Aquatic Therapy to six years in federal prison for a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme.

A man who claimed to provide services for children with autism in Minnesota but instead raked in millions of dollars from fraudulent Medicaid billings pleaded guilty on Monday.

A 21-defendant indictment in 2021 produced 18 guilty pleas, a conviction at trial and 2 acquittals in landmark prosecution of Erie white-collar crime.

Physical therapy clinic owned by Aaron W. Hertel and Michael R. Brown wraps up business ahead of their sentencings for federal health care fraud.

Minnesota officials and prosecutors are warning that the state is facing an unprecedented fraud crisis in its social service programs, with losses potentially reaching as high as $2 billion, according ...