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  1. January 05, 2018

    Ex-ArthroCare Exec Gets 4 Years In $750M False Sales Plot

    The former chief financial officer of medical device maker ArthroCare Corp. was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for his role in a fraudulent revenue-boosting scheme that cost investors more than $750 million.

  2. November 03, 2017

    Ex-ArthroCare CEO Gets 20 Years For $750M Fraud

    The former CEO of medical device maker ArthroCare Corp. was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison for the second time for his role in orchestrating a fraud scheme that resulted in shareholder losses of more than $750 million, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement.

  3. October 31, 2017

    Feds Seek 20 Years For Ex-ArthroCare CEO For $750M Fraud

    Federal prosecutors on Monday told a Texas federal judge that a former ArthroCare Corp. CEO convicted of securities fraud for allegedly cheating investors out of roughly $750 million by inflating sales and revenue numbers should spend 20 years in prison.

  4. October 12, 2017

    Ex-ArthroCare CEO Can't Undo $750M Fraud Conviction

    A Texas federal judge denied a former ArthroCare Corp. CEO's attempt to overturn his conviction after a second jury found him guilty of cheating investors out of roughly $750 million by inflating sales and revenue numbers.

  5. October 04, 2017

    Feds Fight Ex-ArthroCare CEO's Bid To Nix Fraud Conviction

    ArthroCare Corp.'s former CEO is trying to get his conviction for defrauding investors of some $750 million thrown out by relying on arguments the court has already shut down, prosecutors said as they urged a Texas federal judge Tuesday to uphold the conviction.

  6. September 25, 2017

    Ex-ArthroCare CEO Wants $750M Fraud Conviction Nixed

    The former ArthroCare Corp. CEO who was convicted of defrauding investors of some $750 million by inflating sales and revenue numbers at both his initial trial and a retrial in August asked a Texas federal judge to free him on Friday, claiming the government failed to prove fraud.

  7. August 18, 2017

    Ex-ArthroCare CEO Convicted Again In $750M Fraud Scheme

    A Texas federal jury Friday found the former CEO of ArthroCare Corp. guilty of wire fraud and securities fraud for his role in a scheme to inflate the medical device company's sales and revenue numbers, which cost investors $750 million, after his first conviction was vacated and gave way to a retrial.

  8. July 21, 2017

    Ex-ArthroCare CEO Can't Escape Wire Fraud Charges

    A Texas federal judge on Thursday refused to toss wire fraud allegations against the former chief executive of ArthroCare, the medical device company that purportedly deceived investors by artificially inflating sales.

  9. June 19, 2017

    Ex-ArthroCare CEO Invokes Honeycutt In Fraud Dismissal Bid

    A former chief executive at ArthroCare Corp. facing retrial in a securities fraud case has told a Texas federal judge that the way the Supreme Court defined obtaining property in its recent Honeycutt v. U.S. ruling militates for dismissal of a wire fraud charge.

  10. June 14, 2017

    Ex-ArthroCare CFO Pleads Guilty After First Sentence Nixed

    The former chief financial officer at ArthroCare Corp. copped to a conspiracy charge for his role in an alleged multimillion-dollar securities fraud scheme in a plea agreement filed in Texas federal court on Wednesday after the Fifth Circuit vacated a prior 10-year sentence.