Almost everyone has heard statistics on the crisis. According to the American Bar Association, almost one in four people behind bars on Earth are in American prisons. The United States imprisons one in three of all the imprisoned women in the world. Despite modest...
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Month: January 2020
Nationwide, marijuana still accounts for 4 in 10 drug arrests
Here in Florida, you need a medical marijuana card to legally buy marijuana, but medi-pot is legal. Also, some localities have decriminalized the drug. This is, as you undoubtedly know, part of a national trend. Ten states have fully legalized marijuana for adult use,...
Accounting fraud, insider trading focuses in 2020 prosecutions
Although it’s relatively uncommon for federal prosecutors to bring accounting fraud prosecutions, this area is one with new activity, according to a New York Times review of recent white-collar crime prosecutions. This type of fraud, along with insider trading, could...
DOJ recovers $2.6B in 2019 health care fraud judgments
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says it recovered $3 billion in fraud settlements and judgments in 2019 and $2.6 billion of that amount involved health care fraud cases. The lawsuits involved drug manufacturers, hospitals, pharmacies, physicians, laboratories and...
Anti-kickback efforts can wrongly accuse health care pros
A General Accounting Office report claims about $52 billion in Medicare payments, or about 10%, went to fraudulent claims in 2017. If this estimate is at all accurate, there is good reason for strong enforcement against Medicare fraud. However, a sweep wide enough to...
