The CEO of a Massachusetts-based company has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the federal government, the U.S. Attorney said Monday.

Dr. Kingsley R. Chin, founder, president and CEO of SpineFrontier Inc., a medical device company headquartered in Malden, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of false statements to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Open Payments Program, U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said in a statement.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani scheduled sentencing for Aug. 6.

The Physician Payment Sunshine Act requires device manufacturers like SpineFrontier to report any payments or transfers of value to physicians, including spine surgeons, Foley said.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services maintains a database, via the Open Payments website, which makes all such payments or transfers of value publicly accessible.

According to the charging documents, SpineFrontier offered surgeons the opportunity to engage in purported consulting on product development.

Specifically, Chin directed his employees to report the payment of fees paid to a surgeon as consulting fees that were not compensation for actual consulting work.

Chin caused his employees to report a payment of $4,750 on Jan. 19, 2016, to the surgeon as a “consulting” payment, even though Chin knew that the surgeon had not performed actual consulting work for the payment, prosecutors said.

Chin “also knew that he and SpineFrontier were required to accurately report any payments or transfers of value to the surgeon,” prosecutors said.

Chin faces a sentence of up to five years, up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.

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A person was flown to the hospital after being seriously injured in an incident on Route 6 in Harwich, Massachusetts, Sunday night.

According to the Harwich Fire Department, Massachusetts State Police notified the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center around 8:15 p.m. about a report of a person who fell out of a vehicle near mile marker 82.

First responders raced to Route 6, and Boston MedFlight was requested to transport the injured party, officials said.

No other details have been released regarding what happened.

A lucky Massachusetts State Lottery player bought a winning Powerball ticket worth $50,000 at a Westfield variety store on Saturday.

The ticket was sold at New Corner Variety Store on Crown Street.

Saturday night’s winning numbers were 7, 34, 40, 42 and 52, and the Powerball number was 15.

In Powerball, players select five numbers between 1 and 69 and one Powerball number between 1 and 26. They then choose how many drawings they want to use those numbers for.

Players that match all five numbers and the Powerball number win the jackpot. They have 1 in 292,201,338 chances of winning this way.

Players that match four numbers and the Powerball number win $50,000. They have 1 in 913,129.18 chances of winning this way.

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Powerball drawings take place every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. The jackpot stands at $134 million as of Sunday.

Overall, at least 249 prizes worth $600 or more were won or claimed in Massachusetts on Saturday, including four in Springfield, four in Worcester and 21 in Boston.

The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of winning tickets every day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600.

The two largest lottery prizes won so far in 2025 were each worth $15 million. One of the prizes was from a winning “Diamond Deluxe” scratch ticket sold in Holyoke, and the other was from a “300X” scratch ticket sold on Cape Cod.