Marvin Clifton, M.D., age 71, whose medical practice included physical therapy, was ordered to two years of supervised release following his imprisonment.  He was also ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and a $100 special assessment.

The Baton Rouge, Louisiana, doctor has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after being convicted of participating in a workers’ compensation fraud scheme in which he submitted more than $500,000 in false claims, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana.

In his guilty plea, Clifton acknowledged that some of his patients received medical benefits under the Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (Workers’ Comp Program), a federal health care benefit program that provides wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and other benefits to certain workers employed by the U.S. Labor Department, or their dependents, who experienced work-related injuries or occupational disease.

Between January 2015 and January 2019, Clifton engaged in a scheme to defraud by knowingly and willfully falsifying and... Read More

It happened the day President Trump announced the US-Mexico border would be closed to all non-essential traffic.  That was on Friday, March 20^th 2020. 

When I read that on... Read More