NHCAA Presents 2007 Fraud 'Investigation of the Year' Award to U.S. Departments of Justice, HHS, and Treasury for Convicting Internet Pharmacy 'Dru...(igation Minneapolis Division; -...),Health

Minneapolis Division;

-- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Food & Drug

Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations, Minneapolis; and

-- U.S. Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal

Investigation, St. Paul Field Office

In particular, NHCAA would like to offer special congratulations to the following individuals for their leadership role in convicting Mr. Smith:
-- Special Agent George S. Kyrilis, Federal Bureau of Investigation,

Minneapolis Division;

-- AUSA Elizabeth C. Peterson, United States Attorney's Office, District

of Minnesota;

-- Special Agent Kenneth C. Kulick, Food & Drug Administration, Office

of Criminal Investigation, Minneapolis;

-- AUSA Nicole A. Egnisch, United States Attorney's Office, District of

Minnesota; and

-- Special Agent Chad D. Vetter, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal

Division, St. Paul Field Office

Founded in 1985 by several private health insurers and federal and state government officials, the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association is the leading national organization focused exclusively on the fight against health care fraud. We are a private-public partnership -- our members comprise more than 100 private health insurers and those public-sector law enforcement and regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over health care fraud committed against both private payers and public programs. Established in 2000, The NHCAA Institute for Health Care Fraud Prevention is a separately incorporated, tax-exempt educational foundation that provides education and training to private- and public-sector health care anti-fraud personnel. http://www.nhcaa.org