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February 09, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The Air Force has just suspended from federal contracting a unit of global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and recommended it for debarment. The notice was posted in the Excluded Parties List System on Monday. The EPLS record cites the action as a proposed debarment pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) section 9.406-2, which outlines the […]
Learn MoreFebruary 09, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A lawsuit has been filed against Wells Fargo Bank for its role in a $330 million Ponzi scheme operated by Sarasota hedge fund manager Arthur Nadel. The suit accuses Wachovia Bank, which was purchased by Wells Fargo, of aiding and abetting Nadel in his fraud by allowing improper “shadow” bank accounts to be created, letting […]
Learn MoreFebruary 08, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON – An assistant administrator of a Houston hospital was arrested today on charges related to his alleged participation in a $116 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for mental health treatment, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). An indictment filed in the Southern […]
Learn MoreFebruary 07, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Fourteen hospitals located in New York, Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington, Indiana, Missouri and Florida have agreed to pay the United States a total of more than $12 million to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department announced today. The settling facilities include the following: Plainview Hospital, Plainview, […]
Learn MoreFebruary 03, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
BIRMINGHAM – A federal judge today sentenced a Muscle Shoals man to 28 months in prison for taking part in a health care fraud totaling more than $3 million in connection to a hospice care program he operated, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley and Health and Human […]
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James Hoyer associates Jesse Hoyer, Jillian Estes, and Sean Estes conquered the Warrior Dash that was held in Lake Wales, FL on January 21-22, 2012. The trio crawled through mud, dominated obstacles, and jumped over fire during the three mile course.
Learn MoreJanuary 30, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
PHILADELPHIA – The Boeing Company has agreed to pay the United States $4,392,779.74 and to undertake several programmatic changes, resolving claims that Boeing improperly billed the Department of Defense for work at Boeing’s facility in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. The settlement was announced today by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger, Direct James K. Podolak of […]
Learn MoreJanuary 26, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca will pay more than $3 million to settle claims that it submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid. That’s the word from federal prosecutors who say they have settled a matter involving allegations that the medical center submitted the false claims in connection with improper physician recruitment agreements entered into […]
Learn MoreJanuary 24, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON – Maersk Line Limited has agreed to pay the government $31.9 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States in connection with contracts to transport cargo in shipping containers to support U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Justice Department announced today. The government alleges that Maersk, a wholly-owned […]
Learn MoreJanuary 19, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lawsuit in which Texas accused Johnson & Johnson of plundering the state Medicaid program by overstating the safety of an expensive anti-psychotic drug and improperly influencing officials and doctors to push the medication has been settled for $158 million, a subsidiary of the health care giant and state officials announced […]
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