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Thank you, for that kind introduction. And thanks to everyone at Taxpayers Against Fraud for inviting me to speak to you today. It has been my privilege, over the past several months, to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department...
A Detroit-area hematologist-oncologist pleaded guilty today for his role in a health care fraud scheme, admitting that he administered unnecessary chemotherapy to fraudulently bill the Medicare program and private insurance companies. According to court records, the...
Partners Elaine Stromgren, Jillian Estes, and Jesse Hoyer are at the 14th Annual Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF) conference in D.C. this week. TAF is a nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to combating fraud against the government and protecting public...
Episcopal Ministries to the Aging Inc. (EMA), a Maryland not-for-profit corporation that owns skilled nursing facilities, has agreed to pay $1.3 million to the government for submitting false claims to Medicare for unreasonable or unnecessary rehabilitation therapy...
The public disclosure bar can be a major factor in a qui tam action brought under a False Claims Act. The bar seeks to prevent lawsuits by “opportunistic plaintiffs who have no significant information to contribute of their own.” Graham County Soil & Water...
A Louisiana psychiatrist was sentenced in federal court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, today to serve 86 months in prison for his role in a $258.5 million Medicare fraud scheme involving partial hospitalization psychiatric services. He was further ordered to pay $43.5...
Peggy Ryan A James Hoyer case tops the list of the 10 largest False Claims, Stark Law, and Anti-Kickback settlements of 2014, as compiled by Becker’s Hospital Review. Endo Pharmaceuticals $193-million settlement with the federal government for off-label marketing of...
The IRS recently expanded awards given to relators under the IRS whistleblower program; thereby encouraging more taxpayers to come forward to report wrongdoing. The online version of the regulations are available here. Historically, the whistleblower could share in a...
Jesse Hoyer – Partner ABC Action News in Tampa continued its multi-year investigation of for-profit colleges with another powerful report on this troubled industry. This time the report focused on Everest University, which is closing down or selling off it’s...
McKesson Corporation has agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that it improperly set temperature monitors used in shipping vaccines under its contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Justice Department announced today. ...
