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A Vancouver business and its CEO were sued by federal regulators Thursday for allegedly paying illegal kickbacks to a hedge fund and manipulating penny stock trades.
In a civil suit filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Camas resident James Wheeler, chief executive officer of MicroHoldings US Inc., of violating federal securities laws.
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The majority of consumers initially consult a mortgage broker regarding financing their home purchase. In fact, it's estimated that mortgage brokers w...
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WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Houston-area residents Doris Vinitski and John Lachman pleaded guilty today in connection with their roles in a durable medical equipment Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.
According to court documents, Vinitski, 45, was the owner of Onward Medical Supply, a Houston-area durable medical equipment company. Lachman, 45, operated the day-to-day business for several years, and Vicki Phillips, 53, was a patient recruiter for Onward. Vinitski and Lachman, who is Vinitski's estranged husband, each pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Atlas of the Southern District of Texas to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Phillips pleaded guilty on April 21...
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WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Houston-area residents Basil Kalu and Ju-Ying Qian, and Louisiana resident Darnell Willis pleaded guilty today in connection with their roles in a durable medical equipment Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.
Qian, Willis and Kalu pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Atlas of the Southern District of Texas to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. According to court documents, Qian, 60, and Willis, 50, were patient recruiters for Onward Medical Supply, a Houston-area durable medical equipment company. Kalu, 41, assisted with Onward activities and also ran his own durable medical equipment company, BOK, through Onward.
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A hospital in Maryland has agreed to pay $22 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to a cardiovascular physician group over a 10-year period and, separately, billed federal benefit programs for "medically unnecessary stents.
MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates demanded and received extra compensation from St. Joseph Medical Center in Baltimore for referring its "lucrative cardiac procedures" to the hospital from 1996 to 2006, according to the settlement agreement released earlier this week by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore.
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Ray Joseph, executive vice president of the West Virginia Association of Realtors, said his members were expecting to see a slight slowdown in the housing market this year. The homeowners said the lenders used bad business practices, such as fake appraisals, hidden fees and illegal kickbacks to mortgage brokers to get them into homes they couldn't afford. National banks, federal thrifts and federal credit unions are exempt from state oversight, as are nondepository subsidiaries of national banks and thrifts.
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A whistleblower complaint accuses former osteopathic surgeon Dr. John A. King of experimenting on 26 of his patients.
The federal complaint says King used medical devices in ways that hadn't been approved by the FDA and received illegal kickbacks for doing it.
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CHICAGO (AP) - A millionaire businessman who has donated thousands of dollars to Republicans and a major Democratic fundraiser were indicted along with a third man Wednesday on corruption charges involving a $30 billion pension fund for retired Illinois teachers.
Stuart Levine, 59, a former trustee of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System, and Chicago attorneys Joseph Cari, 52, and Steven Loren, 50, are accused of seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from companies that wanted to do business with the fund.