Whistleblower News From The Inside -- May 30, 2017
Posted 05/30/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Texas woman used Panamanian offshore accounts to conceal more than $1.3M from the IRS -- Seventy-three year old College Station, Texas resident Joyce Meads pled guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by using offshore accounts in Panama to conceal more than $1.3M in royalty income she earned from oil wells. DOJ
Former Colorado worker wins $150K in whistleblower...
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Contactless Payment Fraud Soars to £7m -- Almost £7m was taken in 2016, compared to £2.8m in 2015, according to Financial Fraud Action UK. In the same period, contactless spending rose from £7.75bn to £25.2bn.
A judge recently slammed the technology, which does not require a PIN, for making life "too easy" for criminals during the sentencing of a fraudster in Devon. 
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Yesterday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 
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Wyoming psychologist charged with 234 fraud counts – Wyoming psychologist Gibson Condie, accused of submitting about $6.8M in fraudulent health care bills to Wyoming Medicaid, has been indicated by a federal grand jury; Condie submitted the claims through his business, Big Horn Basin Mental Health Group Inc. 
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A jury convicted Texas psychiatrist Riaz Mazcuri of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud. He is the latest to be convicted in a $158 million dollar scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting false claims for partial hospitalization program (PHP) services, an intensive outpatient treatment for mental illness. Thus far, 15 others have been...
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SEC files charges in trading scheme involving confidential government information --The SEC announced it “alleged [an] insider trading scheme involving tips of nonpublic information about government plans to cut Medicare reimbursement rates, which affected the stock prices of certain publicly traded medical providers or suppliers.” A federal employee at the Centers for...
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