The settlement agreement consisted of payments to both the federal government and state Medicaid programs and also resolved claims brought under six different qui tam Two of the relators received approximately $3 million of the settlement funds; the respective shares of the other relators were not ...
(3)"If the perpetrator of a false statement has not been subjected to administrative penalty, but has been found guilty by a people's court, the criminal judgment shall come into effect on the date of its making.". To impose two or more administrative penalties on different false statements...
the practice entered into a corporate integrity agreement (CIA) with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), which focuses on the practice’s continuing obligation to properly bill and submit reimbursement claims to government payors. The settlement reso...
said, "By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break the cross and kill the pig and abolish the Jizya (a tax taken from the non-Muslims, who are in the protection, of the Muslim government)...
(3) Costs of civil actions.–A person violating this subsection shall also be liable to the United States Government for the costs of a civil action brought to recover any such penalty or damages. (b) Definitions.–For purposes of this section– ...
or knowingly conceals or knowingly and improperly avoids or decreases an obligation to pay or transmit money or property to the Government, is liable to the United States Government for a civil penalty of not less than $5,000 and not more than $10,000, as adjusted by the Federal Civil Pe...
Trador is scheduled to be sentenced on July 29, 2024, and faces a maximum penalty of 41 years in prison. “Loan officers are supposed to be gatekeepers who protect the integrity of the FHA program. Mr. Trador abused his position of trust as a loan officer and used his knowledge of FH...
We find that regardless of the specific form of a convex penalty function, the production rate will gradually decrease to slow down the increase in the probability of getting caught. We show that the government or regulatory department can determine a minimal finite penalty to prevent the ...
and bribed doctors to approve the claims even when they had not interacted with the purported beneficiaries. In addition to the settlement, the company’s president pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and filing a false tax return for which she faces a maximum penalty of 13...
Rather, Joe Biden – carrying out the policy of the US government and its European allies – threatened to deny a $1 billion loan guarantee to Ukraine unless it fired a prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was widely seen as corrupt or ineffective; there is no sign Biden tried to thwart the ...