Eduardo “Eddie” Lopez, Wage-Fixing and $10M Healthcare Fraud, Nevada 2023

Nevada Man Sentenced to 40 Months for Wage-Fixing, Healthcare Fraud

A federal court in Nevada sentenced Eduardo “Eddie” Lopez of Las Vegas to 40 months in custody and $550,000 in criminal fines for his role in fixing the wages of home healthcare nurses in the Las Vegas area between March 2016 and May 2019. Lopez was also ordered to pay $2,496,101 in criminal restitution to the defrauded purchaser of his home healthcare company and forfeit $10,459,000 from the fraudulent sale of his home healthcare company.

Lopez was convicted in April for leading a conspiracy to fix the wages of home healthcare nurses and for five counts of fraud for concealing the government’s antitrust investigation from the buyer during the sale of his home healthcare staffing company for over $10 million.

“American workers are the bedrock of President Trump’s administration,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “We will continue to tirelessly fight for the innocent, like the hardworking nurses harmed in this case.”

“Wage-fixing is a brazen crime rightly punished by a lengthy period of incarceration. The dignity of work in return for a fair wage is core to our free-market enterprise system. The Defendant — a convicted antitrust criminal — profited at the expense of his employees and the unwitting buyer of his home healthcare company,” said Assistant Attorney General Abigail A. Slater of the Antitrust Division.

“This case demonstrates the consequences of violating antitrust laws. By conspiring to fix wages, the defendant deprived hardworking nurses the right to earn a fair wage,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada.

The case was investigated by the Antitrust Division’s San Francisco Office and the FBI’s International Corruption Unit, with assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada. Anyone with information in connection with this investigation, or other antitrust and competition crimes, should contact the Antitrust Division’s Complaint Center by visiting www.justice.gov/atr/report-violations. Whistleblowers who voluntarily report original information about antitrust and related offenses that result in criminal fines or other recoveries of at least $1 million may be eligible to receive a whistleblower reward. For more information on the Antitrust Whistleblower Rewards Program, visit www.justice.gov/atr/whistleblower-rewards.

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