In early February 2020, Kirsten St. George and her team at New York state's public health lab received a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose people infected ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A felony criminal indictment unsealed in federal court on Friday alleges a Schaumburg laboratory owner was involved in a COVID-19 test-kit scheme to defraud Medicare and hundreds of ...

INVERNESS, IL — A north suburban man who ran a lab in Chicago pleaded guilty to fraud in a $14 million scheme in which his business billed the government for coronavirus testing that either wasn't ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- With COVID-19 outbreaks continuing to pop up, we are revisiting a question we first dug into last year – is your negative COVID-19 test really negative? Last year, the CBS 2 ...

A COVID testing lab in Chicago delivered negative results to people before their tests had even been run, federal officials said. The owner and operator, 45-year-old Zishan Alvi, pleaded guilty to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It may sound strange, a mystery COVID-19 test showing up at your home without you ordering it. But the problem is getting so bad that the Better Business Bureau has issued an alert ...

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CHICAGO (WGN) – The owner of a laboratory in Chicago has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a COVID-19 testing fraud scheme. Court documents said 46-year-old Zishan Alvi of ...

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. Under its new director, John Ratcliffe, the agency released an assessment on the origins ...

An Illinois laboratory owner pleaded guilty to wire fraud as part of a COVID-19 testing fraud scheme on September 30, according to the Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs press release.