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Patient Exposes $150 Million Medicaid Fraud
Maxim Healthcare Services Inc. (“Maxim”), one of the nation’s largest providers of home healthcare services, has agreed to settle criminal and civil charges relating to a nationwide scheme to defraud Medicaid and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of more than $61 million. To date, nine individuals, including two Florida residents, have pleaded guilty… Read More »
U.S. Intervenes in Qui Tam Action Against AseraCare Hospice
The Justice Department announced that the United States has intervened in a qui tam lawsuit filed by whistleblowers Dawn Richardson and Marsha Brown against Golden Gate Ancillary LLC dba AseraCare Hospice (“AseraCare”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. A qui tam action is a whistleblower lawsuit brought by… Read More »
Qui Tam Lawsuit Against New York City Settled for $70 Million
A qui tam action filed against New York City has settled for $70 million. A qui tam action is a whistleblower lawsuit brought by an individual as a “relator” on behalf of the federal government. The whistleblower lawsuit alleged that the New York City Human Resources Administration improperly overcharged the Federal Medicaid program for… Read More »
SEC Charges Stifel Nicolaus with Selling Fraudulent Investments to School District
The SEC has charged St. Louis-based brokerage firm Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. and a former senior executive with defrauding several Wisconsin school districts by selling them unsuitably risky and complex investments funded largely with borrowed money. The SEC is alleging that Stifel and Senior Vice President David W. Noack created a proprietary program to… Read More »