Physician George Mathews, 76, of Prince Frederick, Maryland, pleaded guilty Friday, Feb. 7 to the illegal distribution of drugs and health care fraud.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Karl C. Colder of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Washington Field Division; Special Agent in Charge Thomas Frost of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Major Fraud Investigations Division; Special Agent in Charge William R. Jones, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations; Calvert County Sheriff Mike Evans; St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron; Charles County Sheriff Rex Coffey; Special Agent in Charge Robert Craig of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Mid-Atlantic Field Office; Special Agent in Charge Drew Grimm, Office of Personnel Management, Office of Inspector General; and Special Agent in Charge Nicholas DiGiulio, Office of Investigations, Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.
“Today’s guilty plea serves as a warning to those who would defraud the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs by charging for medical services that were not rendered or not medically necessary,” said Bill Jones, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Washington Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations. “The OIG will continue to work with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and our law enforcement partners to investigate crimes of this nature.”
“The workers’ compensation program benefits thousands of Postal Service employees who have received le
