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Department Sets Records for Recoveries in Health Care and War-Related Fraud Annual Recoveries in Whistle Blower Cases Reach All Time High WASHINGTON – The Justice Department secured more than $3 billion in settlements and judgments in civil cases involving fraud...

James Hoyer Communications Director and Investigative Producer Angie Moreschi was honored with two Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards on Saturday, December 3rd.  It was an exciting evening that she shared with her family at the black tie gala in Ft. Lauderdale. The Emmys...

From NY Times By Kathleen Sharp The Obama administration announced a plan to cut $320 billion over 10 years from the projected growth of Medicare and Medicaid. The plan would raise premiums and deductibles, lower payments to hospitals and require elderly people who...

John Yanchunis, Jillian Estes, Jesse Hoyer James Hoyer Associates Jillian Estes and Jesse Hoyer successfully completed the 2011 Top Gun Triathlon at Fort DeSoto Park on July 30th.  The triathlon included a .25 mile swim, completed by Estes, and a 3.1 miles run,...

From the Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, August 8, 2011 U.S. Files Complaint Against Education Management Corp. Alleging False Claims Act Violations   WASHINGTON – The United States has intervened and filed a...

Al Scudieri, the Lead Investigator for the James Hoyer Law Firm, has been elected as the 2012 President of The Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inc Nearly 8,000 former FBI agents strong, the organization supports the FBI itself...

WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act (FCA) against Bay Area Sleep Associates LLC, dba SomnoMedics LLC, and its owner, Edward Killmer Jr., the Justice Department announced today.   The complaint, filed today in U.S. District...

From DotMed.com: Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates (MIMA), one of Brevard County, Florida’s largest physician groups, says it is in the process of settling with the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a False Claims suit, which alleges that MIMA had engaged in...

From Justice.gov: (HOUSTON) – HMS Diagnostics Inc. (HMSD Inc.), HMS Diagnostics LLC, (HMSD LLC), Health Management Services Inc. (HMS Inc.) and John Carl Goodman have paid more than $550,0000 in damages to settle alleged violations of the federal False Claims Act,...

For fiscal 2010, which ended in September, such recoveries totaled $3 billion in civil judgments and settlements, the department said in a news release. About three-quarters of that amount resulted from so-called “qui tam” lawsuits brought by whistleblowers who are...