Newsday: Eight employees of transportation companies — including seven from Long Island — were charged with fraudulently billing Medicaid for millions of dollars for services that were never provided, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Central Islip.

Newsday: A judge on Thursday reduced five counts of murder against a now-former Rockville Centre physician whom Nassau prosecutors dubbed a “serial killer” to manslaughter charges.

Newsday: Michael Wustrow will serve a federal prison sentence for receiving child pornography after an investigation in which prosecutors said he sent sexually explicit photos of boys to an undercover officer.

Forbes: Federal authorities arrested the alleged leaders of New York’s Colombo crime family on racketeering charges, prosecutors said Tuesday, accusing one of the New York City area’s five infamous Mafia families of scheming to extort a construction union.

Newsday: Prosecutors have dubbed former physician George Blatti, 75, a "serial killer" whose prescription pad "was as lethal as any murder weapon."

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: A complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Joseph Stephan, a chiropractor licensed by New York State, with health care fraud for submitting false claims to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP) for services that were not actually rendered.

Newsday: Mineola defense attorney Nancy Bartling said she believes that relocating jurors from courtrooms to bigger courthouse spaces to watch trials remotely in real time also wouldn’t work because defendants could argue the jury physically did not see the evidence.

Newsday: A Flanders man got 10 years in prison Friday and became the first defendant to be sentenced in what officials said was the result of a joint federal-local crackdown against drug dealers and members of the Bloods street gang on the East End of Long Island.