In 1951, a 30-year-old Black woman by the name of Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital for a diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer. Today, Lacks’ estate is suing a biotech company for allegedly selling and profiting off of Lacks’ cells that were originally collected at that hospital. Lack’s... Read More »
The husband of a wife who sued an Ohio hospital for not administering the drug Ivermectin has died. The family’s attorney confirmed that Jeffrey Smith, 51, passed away on September 25 after losing his battle to COVID-19. Smith contracted the virus on July 9, and his condition continued to worsen... Read More »
Over a dozen former basketball players have been accused of health care fraud as it relates to the National Basketball Association’s health care fund. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, announced the charges Thursday against 18 former basketball players and the spouse of a... Read More »
A California man has been arraigned for alleged insurance fraud and perjury after he claimed to have received cumulative trauma received on the job. Frank Simplicio, 45, of Porter Ranch is accused of collecting workers’ compensation disability benefits after he claimed he was unable to continue his work as a... Read More »
Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation’s largest utility, is facing 31 charges including 11 felonies and manslaughter after their equipment sparked a wildfire in Northern California last year. The wildfire claimed the lives of four victims as they tried to escape the blaze. The victims ranged in ages from eight... Read More »
An Orlando cardiologist has been ordered to pay $6.75 million to resolve allegations that he knowingly performed unnecessary medical procedures. Dr. Ashish Pal was accused of violating the False Claims Act after he knowingly submitted false claims to federal health care programs for medically unnecessary ablations and vein stent procedures,... Read More »
Student debt trails mortgages as the biggest type of debt a consumer can take on in their life. As a nation, borrowers owe a collective $1.57 trillion in student loan debt, with the average borrower owing roughly $38,000. While the student debt crisis has crippled many, there has been a... Read More »
Three men in different states have been indicted for a nationwide copyrighted media theft scheme that lined their pockets with a combined $30 million. Authorities named Bill Omar Carrasquillo, 35, of New Jersey, Jesse Gonzales, 42, of California, and Michael Barone, 36, New York, as the men behind the cable... Read More »
Michigan doctor Francisco Patino, 66, has been convicted on multiple counts of fraud after running a scheme that defrauded the healthcare system out of over 100 million dollars. The Detroit area doctor was found guilty by a jury after evidence showed that Patino gave his patients opioids if they agreed... Read More »
A Massachusetts-based moving and storage company has settled with the U.S. government after auctioning off a deployed service member’s belongings. The company, PRTaylor Enterprises LLC., which operated as Father and Son Moving and Storage, is found to have violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). According to the Department of... Read More »
As tensions at the southern border continue, Texas Governor Gregg Abbot has deployed a fleet of public safety cars to create a “steel wall” keeping the migrants back. This move is the latest in the escalating efforts to help contain the overflow of migrants at the U.S. border. Officials estimate... Read More »
Muhammad Fahd, 35, a citizen of Pakistan and Grenada, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a nearly decade-long phone unlocking scheme. The scheme resulted in estimated losses of over $200 million for the telecommunications company, AT&T. Authorities indicted Fahd in 2017 after an investigation by the... Read More »
Fourteen members of the notorious Colombo crime family were arrested over racketeering and extortion charges last week. The arrests include heads of the family, Andrew “Mush” Russo, 87, and underboss Benjamin” Benji” Castellazzo, 83. Other ranking members of the family were also arrested, including captains and associates who kept the... Read More »
The victims of Bernie Madoff’s billion-dollar Ponzi scheme will begin to see payments totaling more than $568 million according to the department of justice. Nearly 40,000 investors fell victim to the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC fraud scheme in the early 2000s. According to the DOJ, some of these... Read More »
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a policy change to the admission requirements for immigrants coming into the states. Foreign nationals immigrating into America will now have to add the COVID-19 vaccine to their medical history as part of their immigration process. The new policy is set... Read More »
