Would you turn over your hard earned money to a convicted felon? Many readers are saying “No way!” but many do so everyday. Yes, everyday. Yesterday, four major money center banks agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in connection with a worldwide conspiracy among several banks to manipulate foreign exchange rates (“FOREX”). Citi, JPMorgan […]
Prison Privatization, Aramark, Murder for Hire and Maggots!
Okay, the title of this post may be a bit salacious but so is the story being reported by the Detroit News. A former Aramark food service worker has been implicated in an alleged murder for hire plot. Former employee Michael Young was charged with felony conspiracy to commit assault. Prosecutors say that Young solicited […]
ACFCS
Brian Mahany, a fraud recovery and whistleblower claims lawyer with three decades of experience as an advocate and attorney, spoke with ACFCS about the role of compliance professionals as whistleblowers, and how the law protects – and sometimes generously rewards – those who report wrongdoings to…
Bank of America – Can Brian Moynihan Survive?
Last week the Wall Street Journal carried an interesting front page story, “Bank of America’s Woes Test ‘Fixer’ CEO.” The gist of the article is that Bank of America’s CEO, Brian Moynihan, is having problems moving the bank forward. While other big banks are now showing nice profits – and dividends for shareholders – America’s […]
DOJ Getting Aggressive Whistleblower Cases
Last year was a record year for whistleblower cases. The U.S. Department of Justice handed out $635 million in award monies. These sums don’t include the millions given by states, the IRS and the SEC to whistleblowers. In False Claims Act cases alone, the Justice Department recovered $5.69 billion for taxpayers and that sum doesn’t […]
Swiss Convict Tax Whistleblower in Absentia
Here in the United States we protect whistleblowers who expose fraud against the government and taxpayers. While the government won’t hesitate to prosecute whistleblowers who reveal government secrets, whistleblowers who help the government recover money from wrongdoers are protected by federal law. Not all countries react that way, however. A Swiss court has convicted tax […]
Ambulance Medicare Fraud Scheme Leads to Prison
The manager of a southern California ambulance company will spend the next six and one half years in prison. Thirty four year old Wesley Kingsbury was convicted of Medicare fraud. Prosecutors claim that Kingsbury and others falsified records and improperly billed Medicare for transporting patients to and from dialysis appointments. We have seen a huge […]
Five More Ambulance Companies Whacked for Medicare Fraud
Medicare fraud by ambulance companies is epidemic! The problem has become so bad that regulators can’t keep up. Last year Medicare and Medicaid officials in Philadelphia and Houston were forced to issue a moratorium on new registrations of ambulance companies. What is the problem? It’s either “up coding” or billing Medicare for transports of people […]
PharMerica Whistleblower Suits Settles – $31.5 Million!
The Department of Justice today announced that a Waukesha, Wisconsin woman will receive a $4.3 million reward for blowing the whistle on PharMerica Corporation, a Kentucky based pharmacy chain that caters to nursing homes and hospitals. Jennifer Denk, a pharmacist employed in the company’s Pewaukee, Wisconsin facility, filed a whistleblower complaint against PharMerica in 2009. […]
Healthcare Dive May 2015
Nine Florida hospitals and one ambulance company have agreed to pay the federal government a total of $7.5 million to settle allegations that they defrauded Medicare by billing for unnecessary ambulance rides. Four of the hospitals were owned by HCA Holdings, Inc., and four were owned by Baptist…
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