June 29, 2012 — It started with a news station investigation into Medicaid dental fraud claims in Texas. WFAA found that Texas spent a lot on Medicaid—more than the rest of the United States combined. The news team found that false claims for dental work against the Texas...
June 11, 2012 — After months of news coverage, state and federal investigations, and Senate hearings on the problem of rampant dental Medicaid fraud, eleven Texas dental practices have been suspended from making dental claims against Medicaid or receiving any state funds based on credible allegations of dental fraud against the Texas Medicaid Orthodontics program.
Texas is hub for...May 7, 2012 — After television station WFAA revealed its discovery of Medicaid fraud among dental practices in Texas, one of the targeted dental clinic chains, All Smiles Dental Center, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Since the story broke, the claim of clinics has been shrinking. A year ago, the chain boasted dozens of dental clinics, but now only a handful remain.
The...
SAN DIEGO – Waters Kraus & Paul was recently recognized in a special edition of The Recorder, California’s Million Dollar Verdicts of 2011. The firm’s achievement in the asbestos trial of Mansir v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. is the firm’s fourth case to be featured on a California’s Million Dollar Verdicts list. The list, compiled by VerdictSearch, is published by...
April 16, 2012 — Bradley David Edson, former chief executive officer of NutraCea, has been accused of orchestrating a fraud scheme that was allegedly intended to inflate the company’s stock price and to defraud investors as well as auditors and securities regulators, according to The Arizona Republic. Mr. Edson has been charged with 27 counts of securities fraud and other fraud...
April 6, 2012 — There was a time not so long ago when paying foreign officials to smooth the way through legal proceedings or to win a contract was all standard practice. No one paid much attention. The Watergate scandal in 1973 brought the issue of corporate bribery to the forefront as the SEC and the Justice Department investigated Nixon’s illegal campaign contributions and found...
Lockheed Martin Corp., the largest defense contractor in the U.S., settled a False Claims Act case in March 2012 for $15.85 million.
The lawsuit, filed in Dallas federal court, alleged that Lockheed and its subcontractor, Tools & Metals, Inc., engaged in a seven-year pricing fraud by mischarging the federal government for tools used on military aircraft. The subcontractor allegedly...
The Virginia-based defense contractor Calnet has agreed to pay the federal government more than $18 million to settle claims that the company overbilled the government on defense contracts. According to the Washington Post, the settlement addresses alleged overbilling on three contracts for linguist services and translation at Guantanamo Bay and other location.
The overbilling claims...
South Florida has gained the unwelcome reputation of being a hotbed for Medicare fraud. The recent conviction of two doctors, a therapist, and two other individuals from the Miami area for involvement in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme has not helped that reputation. Drs. Alberto Ayala along with Mark Willner and therapist Dr. Vanja Abreu were convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy...
Arizona-based Hospice Family Care Inc. has agreed to settle allegations that it engaged in Medicare fraud by repaying the federal government $3.7 million. The lawsuit alleged that the hospice services provider sought payment for hospice services for patients who were either completely or partly ineligible for those services. Hospice Family Care was also accused of providing some patients...
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