“Wisconsin contractor’s guilty plea involves work on New Orleans’ streetcar line” by Advocate Staff Link to original source (75K) Transcript: A Wisconsin contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally substituting foreign-made building materials in nearly a half-dozen federally-funded projects that required American-made materials, including expansion work tied to New Orleans’ streetcar line. Despite the criminal charge, […]
Hospitals Take Rap for Medically Unnecessary Ambulance Transports
[P0st updated July 2020] There have been many Medicare fraud prosecutions involving medically unnecessary ambulance transports in recent years. Common schemes include falsely billing basic life support runs as advanced life support and taking otherwise ambulatory and healthy dialysis patients to and from their appointments. In just one city, Philadelphia, no less than 30 individuals […]
Texas Lawyer Suspended for EMS Medicare Fraud
Here is an unusual one… a lawyer in Texas lost her license to practice law because of a Medicare fraud conviction. Gwendolyn Climmons not only can’t practice law, she can’t even use her name in conjunction with the words “lawyer” or “attorney.” According to court records, Climmons was sentenced to 8 years in prison for […]
Auditors as Whistleblowers
CPAs sometimes have conflicting obligations. The Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants says that accountants must maintain client confidences. That makes sense; no one wants to hire an accountant or auditor who blabs trade secrets or a client’s expansion plans. But what if the accountant learns of wrongdoing by the client? Can accountants become whistleblowers? […]
Hospitals Liable for Medicare Fraud by Ambulance Services
Hospitals have the deep pockets that many local ambulance services don’t have. When the government intervened in a Medicare fraud case filed by a former employee of Century Ambulance in Jacksonville, Florida some wondered how the local hospitals served by Century would fare. The answer is, “not well.” Last week the Justice Department settled the […]
Law360
“Architecture Firm To Pay $3M To Resolve ‘Buy American’ FCA” by Bryan Koenig Link to original source (91K) Novum Structures LLC will pay $3 million to settle criminal and civil False Claims Act allegations in Wisconsin federal court that it falsified documents to hide the improper use of foreign materials on construction projects funded with […]
Rest in Peace – TIC Scams
2002 marked the beginning of an era for tenant in common (TIC) scams. That year, the IRS issued a revenue rule that said TIC investments qualified for deferred taxation under Section 1031 of the tax code. It wasn’t long before Wall Street and several slick promoters jumped on the bandwagon. People and companies like Carlton Cabot, […]
Whistleblower Ordered to Pay Legal Fees
When a whistleblower that filed cases under the False Claims Act is successful, he or she can anticipate a large check and the lawyers can get substantial legal fees too. Sometimes, however, the court orders the whistleblower to pay legal fees. Those cases are rare but a federal judge in Virginia this week sanctioned a […]
Dialysis Clinic Accused of “Witness Coaching,” Settles Medicare Fraud Claim
Last month DaVita Inc. agreed to settle a long running Medicare fraud case filed by several whistleblowers. The company was accused of overusing certain dialysis drugs. The settlement occurred after the company was called on the carpet for witness coaching. DaVita, and its subsidiary Gambro Healthcare, owns several medical clinics that provide dialysis to patients […]
Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right? (Whistleblower Post)
Technically, there have not been any new bailouts in recent months but banks and bankers have pretty short memories. Already, we see some lenders again making risky loans and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are once again poised to bear the costs of any loan failures. In 2008, Fannie and Freddie, the then two private […]
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