Top Ten State Healthcare and Financial Fraud Recoveries of 2019
Posted 01/30/20
Correctional Services Fraud
This archive displays posts tagged as relevant to fraud in the correctional services industry, also referred to as private prison fraud. You may also be interested in the following pages:
Continued Consolidation in Jail Healthcare Puts Everyone at Risk
Posted 09/19/19
June 26, 2019
Arizona-based commercial debt collection company BARR Credit Services has agreed to pay $55,793 and start a compliance program to resolve its liability under the False Claims Act. According to the government’s complaint, Barr Credit submitted false claims on behalf of a telemarketing firm called Scholars in Print, which allegedly sends unsolicited textbooks to schools and libraries and then invoices the unwilling recipients. Barr Credit attempted to collect on these unpaid invoices from the Federal Bureau of Prisons despite knowing the debts were invalid. USAO EDPAImmigration Detention Facilities Continue to Pose Fraud Risks
Posted 05/9/19
January 24, 2019
Mississippi recovered $26.6 million in settlements with private prison and correctional services contractors including for-profit correctional facilities operators Management and Training Corporation ($5.2 million) and Cornell Companies, Inc., now part of GEO Group ($4.6 million), correctional healthcare provider Wexford Health Sources, Inc. ($4 million); commissary management company Keefe Commissary Network, LLC ($3.1 million), and construction company C. N. W. Construction Company ($3.1 million). The state's lawsuits against the companies alleged that they used "consultants" as conduits to pay bribes and kickbacks to a commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Christopher Epps. MSThe Big Business of Detaining Families Creates a Serious Fraud Risk
Posted 06/21/18
By Poppy Alexander
The massive public outcry about family separations at the border has spotlighted an area of federal spending that often gets ignored-the massive business that is immigration detention for children and families. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of HHS, spent approximately $3.4 billion on private companies to shelter and detain these kids in just the last four years. Yet little data...
May 4, 2018
Cary Hudson, a former financial administrator for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve allegations he violated the Anti-Kickback Act by accepting improper payments from Texas-based Integrated Medical Solutions Inc. in exchange for his assistance in obtaining BOP contracts. IMS and its former president Jerry Heftler previously agreed to pay more than $2.4 million for their role in the alleged scheme. DOJWith Legal Loophole, Alabama Sheriff Takes $750k Earmarked for Inmate Food, Spends $740k on Beach House
Posted 03/15/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Etowah County Sheriff, Todd Entrekin, used a depression-era law that allows sheriffs to “keep and retain” unspent money from accounts provisioned for jail food. Sheriffs across the state are permitted to take the money as personal income, although they are also personally liable for any gap. Entrekin does not dispute using the funds as a personal account, and many sheriffs...
June 5, 2017
Texas-based Integrated Medical Solutions Inc. and the company’s former president Jerry Heftler agreed to pay roughly $2.5 million to settle allegations they violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Act in connection with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. DOJFraudster of the Week -- Texas State Senator Carlos Uresti
Posted 05/19/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
On Tuesday, a federal grand jury in San Antonio returned two indictments against state senator Carlos Uresti in connection with two schemes—one involving alleged kickbacks for a medical services contract at a county jail, and a second dealing with an alleged Ponzi scheme that marketed sand used for hydraulic fracking. He now faces more than a dozen criminal charges and,...