Reid Hoffman was mean to my Sweetie because he took down our LinkedIn account the day he moved to Detroit.
Gabe Hoffman is a hedge fund manager, who seems to navigate the seas in tiny human trust funds when it comes to early investment in AIDS/HIV research.
Gabe likes to talk about the Nasty Things People Do To Tiny Humans all the time, but I guess it is because he has a movie about it.
Just asking because they both seem to have similar agenda.
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Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2020
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Prelude To Detroit: Matt Gaetz Handles Sean Hannity But Who Handles Him?
Matt Gaetz has been quite colorful in his psyoptics.
The article, below, was found as I was trying to find out which rock Sean Hannity slid beneath.
The reporting claims House Ethics released a report.
I searched House Ethics for the report, but found nothing which led me to believe the matter was referred to the OIG, which in turn, may have referred to his Florida District U.S. Attorney Office, which may have been the source of this article, but, hey, what do I know?
I know messy leakiness when I see it because Matt was mean to my Sweetie.
Neither do I know if Matt is going to be stripped of his right to keep and bear the arms of the United States if he is defrocked of his law license.
The report on Gaetz included screenshots from a text conversation between Hannity and the Florida representative with the handwritten label “conservation with Sean Hannity on Feb 27th.”
That 2019 text conversation and the ethics investigation were centered on a tweet by Gaetz that suggested Cohen had not been faithful to his wife. The tweet came one day before the president’s former lawyer was scheduled to testify before a House committee.
Democrats and legal experts accused Gaetz of participating in witness tampering with the tweet, prompting the lawmaker to apologize. The House Ethics Committee admonished Gaetz for his Cohen tweet, saying it "did not meet the standards by which Members of the House should govern themselves."
The text exchange included in the report began with one from Gaetz: “F---ers are coming for my law license. You were right. We all spend our time in the barrel.”
“Run this shit by me!!!” Hannity replied. “You won’t lose the license.”
The Fox News host said it was “smart to pull it down and say what u said. It will pass. Attention span of people is zero. Just learn from it.”
The Florida lawmaker followed up by asking how long he should “lay low.” Hannity answered, “Just a while” and encouraged Gaetz to reach out to Cohen or his lawyer Lanny Davis.
“Just say you were upset at what was transpiring and meant it as a question, not a statement,” Hannity wrote. “And u would never threaten anyone. In retrospect it was poorly written and you wish u didn’t send it. That’s a CYA,” using an acronym for “cover your ass.”
Hannity then provided Gaetz with contact information for Cohen and Davis but instructed the lawmaker to send the apology to “me first.”
Gaetz sent a draft of the apology to Hannity. Another screenshot shows the Florida representative saying, “Cohen asked me to post apology and pls ask ppl to leave his family alone. I did. It felt good.”
Hannity responded, “Good,” and Gaetz followed up by saying, “You are amazing. Thank you.”
Fox News and Gaetz’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
In February 2019, the Florida lawmaker posted the tweet in question to Cohen. It said, “Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot.”
Gaetz uses convention speech to criticize Biden for lack of activity
Michael Cohen burned book manuscript to prevent leak by pro-Trump...
Gaetz tweeted an apology hours after posting the tweet, saying it was not his “intent to threaten.”
"While it is important 2 create context around the testimony of liars like Michael Cohen, it was NOT my intent to threaten, as some believe I did," he tweeted. "I’m deleting the tweet & I should have chosen words that better showed my intent. I’m sorry."
Months later, the Florida Bar determined there was “no probable cause” that Gaetz broke its rules with his tweet on Cohen.
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Cocktails & Popcorn: Michael Cohen, Matt Gaetz, Nancy Pelosi, Rashida Tlaib & Ethics - Stripping Attorney Client Privilege
The article, below, was found as I was trying to find out which rock Sean Hannity slid beneath.
The reporting claims House Ethics released a report.
I searched House Ethics for the report, but found nothing which led me to believe the matter was referred to the OIG, which in turn, may have referred to his Florida District U.S. Attorney Office, which may have been the source of this article, but, hey, what do I know?
I know messy leakiness when I see it because Matt was mean to my Sweetie.
Neither do I know if Matt is going to be stripped of his right to keep and bear the arms of the United States if he is defrocked of his law license.
#maytheheavensfall
Sean Hannity advised Gaetz on deleting Cohen tweet
Fox News’s Sean Hannity advised Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) about a tweet that was perceived as threatening to President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen in 2019, according to a House Ethics Committee's report released on Friday.The report on Gaetz included screenshots from a text conversation between Hannity and the Florida representative with the handwritten label “conservation with Sean Hannity on Feb 27th.”
That 2019 text conversation and the ethics investigation were centered on a tweet by Gaetz that suggested Cohen had not been faithful to his wife. The tweet came one day before the president’s former lawyer was scheduled to testify before a House committee.
Democrats and legal experts accused Gaetz of participating in witness tampering with the tweet, prompting the lawmaker to apologize. The House Ethics Committee admonished Gaetz for his Cohen tweet, saying it "did not meet the standards by which Members of the House should govern themselves."
The text exchange included in the report began with one from Gaetz: “F---ers are coming for my law license. You were right. We all spend our time in the barrel.”
“Run this shit by me!!!” Hannity replied. “You won’t lose the license.”
The Fox News host said it was “smart to pull it down and say what u said. It will pass. Attention span of people is zero. Just learn from it.”
The Florida lawmaker followed up by asking how long he should “lay low.” Hannity answered, “Just a while” and encouraged Gaetz to reach out to Cohen or his lawyer Lanny Davis.
“Just say you were upset at what was transpiring and meant it as a question, not a statement,” Hannity wrote. “And u would never threaten anyone. In retrospect it was poorly written and you wish u didn’t send it. That’s a CYA,” using an acronym for “cover your ass.”
Hannity then provided Gaetz with contact information for Cohen and Davis but instructed the lawmaker to send the apology to “me first.”
Gaetz sent a draft of the apology to Hannity. Another screenshot shows the Florida representative saying, “Cohen asked me to post apology and pls ask ppl to leave his family alone. I did. It felt good.”
Hannity responded, “Good,” and Gaetz followed up by saying, “You are amazing. Thank you.”
Fox News and Gaetz’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
In February 2019, the Florida lawmaker posted the tweet in question to Cohen. It said, “Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot.”
Gaetz uses convention speech to criticize Biden for lack of activity
Michael Cohen burned book manuscript to prevent leak by pro-Trump...
Gaetz tweeted an apology hours after posting the tweet, saying it was not his “intent to threaten.”
"While it is important 2 create context around the testimony of liars like Michael Cohen, it was NOT my intent to threaten, as some believe I did," he tweeted. "I’m deleting the tweet & I should have chosen words that better showed my intent. I’m sorry."
Months later, the Florida Bar determined there was “no probable cause” that Gaetz broke its rules with his tweet on Cohen.
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Friday, August 14, 2020
Trump's Brother Robert Is Ill - Angels Of Light
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What to Know About Donald Trump's Brother Robert
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While he has not been in the media spotlight as much as his older sibling, he is back in the news this summer, as his niece Mary Trump is publishing a tell-all about her family called: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.
Her publisher, Simon & Schuster, describes the text as a “revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him.”
Robert requested a temporary restraining order in an attempt to stop the book from being published. In a statement to the New York Times, he said he was "deeply disappointed" in his niece's decision to publish the book. “Her attempt to sensationalize and mischaracterize our family relationship after all of these years for her own financial gain is both a travesty and injustice to the memory of my late brother, Fred, and our beloved parents,” he said. “I and the rest of my entire family are so proud of my wonderful brother, the president, and feel that Mary’s actions are truly a disgrace.”
Here, a look back at Robert's history, and how he handled Trump's 2016 campaign.
Original 11/02/2016: Judging by his media footprint, Robert Trump cuts a markedly lower profile than his brother Donald. In the Trump family, that may not be saying much.
Anyone who paid attention to New York society in the '80s and '90s will recognize Robert's name. He is the youngest Trump sibling, born two years after his brother Donald. (There are five member of that generation: the oldest is Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal judge; next comes Frederick Trump Jr., who died in 1981 at the age of 43; Donald is in the middle, then Elizabeth Trump Grau, a retired bank executive; and finally Robert.)
Like Donald, Robert joined the family business and was a top executive with the company. Unlike his brother, he doesn't court publicity; ostentation, by most accounts, doesn't excite him. He may have learned to hold back the hard way in the mid-aughts, when his high-profile divorce from socialite Blaine Trump, his wife of about 25 years, was tabloid fodder. There was a mistress, a house Robert bought her on Long Island, and no prenup—a perfect recipe for the gossip pages.
Since then, Robert has pretty much vanished from public view. He is "gainfully retired," as he described himself to Page Six, and lives in Millbrook, New York, in the Hudson Valley, where he leads a relatively parochial but presumably lavish life with his now-not-so-secret partner and former secretary, Ann Marie Pallan, whose family owned and operated Gurney's, the famed Montauk resort and spa, for decades. (Robert did not respond to voicemail requests asking for an interview.)
According to town residents, Robert maintains a reserved but affable presence in Millbrook and its environs, using his financial largesse to support a number of local causes and small businesses. Now in his late 60s, Robert is a trustee of Angels of Light, a holiday giving nonprofit, and he's donated quite heavily to a horse rescue operation in the area, among other things.
"He's not flamboyant," says one local who has met Robert a few times and asked to remain anonymous, describing him as a classy and dignified guy. "He couldn't be more different than his brother, quite frankly," the local adds. "I don't even know how they're in the same family."
There is little doubt, however, that Robert is rooting for his brother's presidential bid—in a rare interview earlier this year, he told Page Six, "I support Donald one thousand percent." He also favors Donald's supporters, like Republican Andrew Heaney, who hitched his congressional primary campaign to the Trump wagon and failed miserably in New York's 19th district, where Robert resides.
From his perch in Millbrook, it appears that Robert does what he can for his brother and other Republican affiliates, hosting events and fundraisers out of Monte's Local Kitchen & Tap Room, Pallan's farm-to-table restaurant in nearby Amenia helmed by Chopped star Dafna Mizrahi (and where it is apparently uncouth to mention Donald's name unbidden, according to the local). The restaurant catered a Trump rally in Poughkeepsie in April.
Robert has a meal named after him on Monte's menu, the "RST All American Burger," an eight-ouncer with cheese, lettuce, aioli, homemade pickles, and truffle fries that goes for $17.50. "The Trump boys love their burgers," Pallan told The Hudson Valley News last year.
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
DOJ: Arrests in Four States of Racially Motivated Violent Extremists Targeting Journalists and Activists
Defendants Created and Coordinated Nationwide Delivery of Threatening Posters
Four racially motivated violent extremists from across the U.S. were arrested and charged today in U.S District Court in Seattle with a conspiracy to threaten and intimidate journalists and activists, the Department of Justice announced. Today’s arrests and searches by the FBI and local law enforcement are being coordinated by the Department of Justice’s National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Seattle, Tampa, Houston, and Phoenix.
“These defendants from across the country allegedly conspired on the internet to intimidate journalists and activists with whom they disagreed,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. “This is not how America works. The Department of Justice will not tolerate this type of behavior.”
“These defendants sought to spread fear and terror with threats delivered to the doorstep of those who are critical of their activities,” said U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran for the Western District of Washington. “As Attorney General William Barr has made clear, rooting out anti-Semitic hate and threats of violence and vigorously prosecuting those responsible are top priorities for the Department of Justice.”
“The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida and FBI-Tampa have been focused on identifying and eradicating the threat posed by the Atomwaffen Division both locally and nationally,” said U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez for the Middle District of Florida. “Today’s arrests send a powerful message that the Department of Justice will not tolerate criminal conduct based on hateful ideology. We will continue to work with our partners here in the Middle District of Florida, and elsewhere, to devote our resources to investigate and prosecute those who aim to threaten and terrorize our communities.”
The defendants charged in the conspiracy include:
Cameron Brandon Shea, 24, of Redmond, Washington;
Kaleb Cole, 24, of Montgomery, Texas;
Taylor Ashley Parker-Dipeppe, 20, of Spring Hill, Florida, and
Johnny Roman Garza, 20, of Queen Creek, Arizona.
According to the criminal complaint, the defendants conspired via an encrypted online chat group to identify journalists and others they wanted to intimidate. The group focused primarily on those who are Jewish or journalists of color. Defendants Cole and Shea created the posters, which included Nazi symbols, masked figures with guns and Molotov cocktails, and threatening language. The posters were delivered to Atomwaffen members electronically and the coconspirators printed and delivered or mailed the posters to journalists or activists the group was targeting. In the Seattle area, the posters were mailed to a TV journalist who had reported on Atomwaffen and to two individuals associated with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In Tampa, the group targeted a journalist,but delivered the poster to the wrong address. In Phoenix, the poster was delivered to a magazine journalist.
“Today’s announcement serves as a warning to anyone who intends to use violence as intimidation or coercion to further their ideology that the FBI remains steadfast in our commitment to protect Americans from domestic terrorism,” said Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Jill Sanborn. “These nationwide arrests are the result of the robust partnerships among the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Tampa, Seattle, Houston, and Phoenix and we appreciate their collective efforts.”
“The FBI recognizes all citizen's First Amendment-protected rights. However the subjects arrested today crossed the line from protected ideas and speech to action in order to intimidate and coerce individuals who they perceived as a threat to their ideology of hate,” said Raymond Duda, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Seattle.
“Today's takedown is proof the FBI in Tampa and our Joint Terrorism Task Force will work tirelessly to ensure communities are rid of hate inspired groups whose goal is to fuel intimidation and violence,” said FBI Tampa Special Agent in Charge Michael McPherson.
Shea will make his initial appearance on the complaint at the federal courthouse in Seattle at 2 p.m. today. Those arrested in other districts will make their appearances in federal court in those districts and will appear in Seattle on a future date.
The charges contained in the complaint are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Seattle, Tampa, Houston and Phoenix.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Woods with assistance from U.S. Attorneys Offices in the Middle District of Florida, Southern District of Texas, District of Arizona, and Central District of California.
Friday, December 13, 2019
Cocktails & Popcorn: December 13, 2019 Did Imran configure the 9/11 hijackers blackberries? Have you met Hank Greenberg
There are always lots of reasons for students to come into the United States beyond studying in a classroom.
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
DOJ Indicts Another Artifice In The Many Machinations Of Trafficking Tiny Humans - Florida Foster Care & Medicaid Fraud
Foster Care & Adoption is child trafficking because it is legal.
In this particular situation, an organized sex trafficking ring was operating under the color of child welfare law.
Most of the time, just about all the time, the girls and boys are compliant because it is how they eat and buy clothes.
The United States run chattle ranches.
Would you allow Child Protective Services to snatch your kid?
Would you be silent if your child was screaming bloody hell in foster care?
The "Elected Ones" are not only silent, they fund their campaigns off they ills of poverty.
On November 19, 2019, Foster was ordered detained pending trial based on a finding by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart in West Palm Beach, Florida, that the defendant poses a danger to the community. Holloway and Chan are scheduled to have their pre-trial detention hearings on December 13, 2019 and to be arraigned on December 19, 2019.
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In this particular situation, an organized sex trafficking ring was operating under the color of child welfare law.
Most of the time, just about all the time, the girls and boys are compliant because it is how they eat and buy clothes.
The United States run chattle ranches.
Would you allow Child Protective Services to snatch your kid?
Would you be silent if your child was screaming bloody hell in foster care?
The "Elected Ones" are not only silent, they fund their campaigns off they ills of poverty.
Three South Florida Residents Indicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
Law Enforcement Seize www.fosterscareinc.com, an Internet Forum Believed to Facilitate Sex Trafficking
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Three South Florida residents face federal charges related to their alleged involvement with a sex trafficking organization. Law enforcement seized a website, www.fosterscareinc.com, which is alleged to have facilitated the sex trafficking.
Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI’s Miami Field Office, and Anthony Salisbury, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Miami Field Office made the announcement.
William D. Foster, 48, of Delray Beach, Ashleigh Holloway, 36, of Fort Lauderdale, and Hanah Chan, 30, of Delray Beach, were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday (Case No. 19-CR-20804). Foster was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, one count of sex trafficking of a minor and by force, fraud, or coercion, and two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. Foster, Holloway, and Chan were charged with one count of sex trafficking by fraud and coercion. Foster and Chan were charged with one count of transportation of an individual for prostitution.
Foster was previously arrested on a criminal complaint, following the execution of three residential search warrants in Delray Beach, Florida.
According to the court record, including allegations contained in a criminal complaint, Foster was the leader of a sex trafficking organization. A victim was allegedly recruited into Foster’s sex trafficking organization in or around August 2007 as a minor, and was commercially sex trafficked by Foster both as a minor, and then as an adult, from approximately November 2007 through May 2010.
A second victim was allegedly recruited into Foster’s organization and was commercially sex trafficked by Foster from approximately May 2004 through August 2011.
It is alleged that these victims were moved across state lines for purposes of prostitution. When they were minors, it is alleged Foster arranged for the victims to obtain false identification. In addition, Foster is alleged to have had sex with the victims on multiple occasions, beginning when they were minors.
The court documents allege that at any given time approximately five to fifteen females lived with, and worked for, Foster. The females worked at exotic dance venues in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties, and engaged in commercial sex at Foster’s direction. It is alleged that the females were not able to keep any proceeds derived from their prostitution or exotic dancing but instead were compelled to turn over the money to Foster based on his false promises to invest their earnings. The females also reported incidences of domestic violence while living with Foster.
The court filings allege that a third victim contacted law enforcement in September 2019 because she was being pressured to engage in commercial sex by Foster and his organization after being flown from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Detroit, Michigan.
Holloway and Chan were charged with Foster in the indictment with sex trafficking by fraud and coercion in connection with the third victim, and Chan and Foster were charged with the transportation of an individual for prostitution in connection with the third victim.
During the course of this investigation, law enforcement identified a website, www.fosterscareinc.com. On November 21, 2019, law enforcement seized the website www.fosterscareinc.com, based on a finding by a U.S. Magistrate Judge that there was probable cause to believe that the website was used, or intended to be used, to commit or facilitate the commission of sex trafficking of children, or by force, fraud, or coercion. It is alleged that Foster had another individual create the website in order to facilitate the sex trafficking enterprise.
On November 19, 2019, Foster was ordered detained pending trial based on a finding by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart in West Palm Beach, Florida, that the defendant poses a danger to the community. Holloway and Chan are scheduled to have their pre-trial detention hearings on December 13, 2019 and to be arraigned on December 19, 2019.
An indictment and criminal complaint are charging documents containing allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
U.S. Attorney Fajardo Orshan commended the investigative efforts of the FBI, HSI Miami Field Office, HSI Detroit Field Office, Florida Office of Financial Regulation, Delray Beach Police Department, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Hollywood Police Department, Miami-Dade Police Department, and Sebastian Police Department. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys J. Mackenzie Duane and Jessica Kahn Obenauf. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter A. Laserna is handling the asset forfeiture aspects of the case.
To report suspected human trafficking or to obtain resources for victims, please call 1-888-373-7888; text “BeFree” (233733), or live chat at HumanTraffickingHotline.org. The toll-free phone, SMS text lines, and online chat function are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Help is available in English, Spanish, Creole, or in more than 200 additional languages. The National Hotline is not managed by law enforcement, immigration or an investigative agency. Correspondence with the National Hotline is confidential and you may request assistance or report a tip anonymously.
To learn more about the National Resource Hotline visit www.humantraffickinghotline.org. To learn more about the U.S. Department of Justice’s efforts to combat human trafficking visit www.justice.gov/humantrafficking.
Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or at http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.
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Sunday, October 20, 2019
Dear Dumb Chick From Florida Who Invested In A Detroit House On Santa Rosa
Dear Dumb Chick from Florida who bought a house somewhere on Santa Rosa in Detroit,
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| The Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed bestows the Rat's Arse upon her Ukrainian Dumb Chick |
I really do not give a flying rat's arse which is why I did not even bother to look up your address or phone number, but in your case, just because you possess the fortitude to even call me, I shall make this exception only for you,
Please, whatever you do, even though someone lied to you, making you believe that you are all uber super smart and stuff, do not call me again.
If you believe you or your property is subject of criminal activity, call the Detroit Police Department.
You see, Dumb Chick, I hail from the land of Detroit, where I am able to localize your accent to be in the southeastern vicinity of Poland.
So, since you may face a language barrier, call 9-1-1 if you believe a crime has been committed.
Oh, and tell Lyrix I said, "What up, doe?"
And tell your other Dumb Chicks I said, "Shoo!"
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Saturday, September 28, 2019
The Congressional Exception: Private Human Plantation Warehouse For Bioethical Experimentation Contract Approved For Michigan - Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution
Welcome to Michigan human plantations.
Michigan got the border baby contracts, too.
This is modern day human trafficking.
This is what built this great nation.
This is where they do the human experiments and bill Medicaid.
If the U.S. Justice System is being reformed, that means stocks would tumble if those beds are not filled.
Just like what was done when the Emancipation Proclamation was gloriously enshrined in our history to distract us from watching the plantations change out their arms by slapping on a cross and calling it a child welfare charity for gerrymandering.
Show me where it states in the Thirteenth Amendment that slavery was abolished in the U.S.?
The GEO Group Inc. won the contract to house up to 1,800 adult inmates at its North Lake Correction Facility in Baldwin from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in May.
Protesters march and chant outside a Prudential financial services branch office building on West Big Beaver, in Troy, August 13, 2019. The protesters called on Prudential to divest from GEO Group Inc., a major private prison who will begin housing non-U.S. citizens convicted of crimes in Baldwin, Michigan next week.
Village of Baldwin President Jim Truxton said the facility plans to begin admitting inmates on Tuesday, but GEO Group would only confirm the site would be “ready to receive inmates as soon as Tuesday."
The inmates housed in Baldwin through the federal Criminal Alien Requirement Program usually have 90 months or less to serve on sentences that typically involve nonviolent drug offenses or re-entry to the country after deportation.
All face deportation after completing their sentences in Baldwin.
The prison has hired 234 staff members, including 34 medical staff, and is in the process of hiring more. Many of the hires are from the county or surrounding area and will make between $35,000 and $76,000, according to GEO Group.
The Florida-based firm that has other similar facilities in the U.S. expects the federal contract to generate roughly $37 million a year in incremental annualized revenues.
Inmates will be offered courses that include basic adult education, introduction to computers, building trades, life skills, religious services and suicide prevention, according to GEO Group.
Truxton has long been a supporter of the facility and said most of the community is also happy with the contract for the prison.
“A filled bed is a filled bed; it’s profit for GEO and they’re hiring people,” Truxton said. “How is it any different than GM building a new plant in the Detroit area?”
The Baldwin facility accounts for roughly half of the taxable value of the surrounding township and has paid $8 million to upgrade and expand Baldwin’s waste water treatment plant to handle the prison’s new federal population, Truxton said.
“What a privately owned facility like North Lake Correctional Facility means to the poorest county in the state is $1.5 million in ad valorem taxes plus personal property taxes plus jobs,” he said.
The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns about the safety of private federal prisons in other states but did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the new population at North Lake Correction Facility.
The building was constructed in 1999 and contracted with the Michigan Department of Corrections through 2005 to house offenders under the age of 20, according to department spokesman Chris Gautz. The facility later had a brief contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and a small contract with the Vermont Department of Corrections in 2016.
GEO Group attempted to sell the prison to the Michigan Department of Corrections a few years ago, but with the group's last, best offer at $100 million the department declined, Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz said.
Privately owned facilities like the one in Baldwin generally present a lower-cost option for the housing of low-security federal prisoners. As of April 2017, the cost to house a low-security inmate at a contracted site such as the Baldwin prison averaged $68.19 a day, while housing an inmate in a low-security federal facility averaged $87.41 a day.
The Baldwin facility will be one of roughly a dozen private facilities contracted to house federal non-citizen offenders for the Bureau of Prisons. Of the 177,300 federal inmates currently housed by the federal bureau, 33,412 are non-U.S. citizens and nearly 16,000 of those non-U.S. citizens are housed in privately managed facilities like the one in Baldwin, according to federal data.
Roughly 10,200 inmates being housed within the Federal Bureau of Prisons are being held on immigration-related felonies.
The correction facility was built in 1999 and provided correctional services to the Michigan Department of Corrections for several years.
Earlier this year, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blocked the sale of a separate former state prison to a different company that wanted to open an immigration detention center in Ionia because the company — Immigration Centers of America — could not guarantee the facility would only be used to house single adults who were not separate from family when they arrived in the U.S.
The federal prison bureau began contracting with private companies in 1997 to decrease overcrowding and respond to congressional mandates, according to the U.S. Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Many of the inmates incarcerated in these contract prisons are Mexican nationals with convictions for immigration offenses who have 90 months or less remaining to serve on their sentences,” the inspector general said in a 2016 report.
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Michigan got the border baby contracts, too.
This is modern day human trafficking.
This is what built this great nation.
This is where they do the human experiments and bill Medicaid.
If the U.S. Justice System is being reformed, that means stocks would tumble if those beds are not filled.
Just like what was done when the Emancipation Proclamation was gloriously enshrined in our history to distract us from watching the plantations change out their arms by slapping on a cross and calling it a child welfare charity for gerrymandering.
Show me where it states in the Thirteenth Amendment that slavery was abolished in the U.S.?
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
The Congressional Exception
Private prison company to house non-U.S. citizens at Michigan facility
A private prison company in Northern Michigan could begin housing non-U.S. citizens convicted of federal crimes as early as next week as part of a 10-year contract with the federal government.The GEO Group Inc. won the contract to house up to 1,800 adult inmates at its North Lake Correction Facility in Baldwin from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in May.Protesters march and chant outside a Prudential financial services branch office building on West Big Beaver, in Troy, August 13, 2019. The protesters called on Prudential to divest from GEO Group Inc., a major private prison who will begin housing non-U.S. citizens convicted of crimes in Baldwin, Michigan next week.
Village of Baldwin President Jim Truxton said the facility plans to begin admitting inmates on Tuesday, but GEO Group would only confirm the site would be “ready to receive inmates as soon as Tuesday."
The inmates housed in Baldwin through the federal Criminal Alien Requirement Program usually have 90 months or less to serve on sentences that typically involve nonviolent drug offenses or re-entry to the country after deportation.
All face deportation after completing their sentences in Baldwin.
The prison has hired 234 staff members, including 34 medical staff, and is in the process of hiring more. Many of the hires are from the county or surrounding area and will make between $35,000 and $76,000, according to GEO Group.
The Florida-based firm that has other similar facilities in the U.S. expects the federal contract to generate roughly $37 million a year in incremental annualized revenues.
Inmates will be offered courses that include basic adult education, introduction to computers, building trades, life skills, religious services and suicide prevention, according to GEO Group.
Truxton has long been a supporter of the facility and said most of the community is also happy with the contract for the prison.
“A filled bed is a filled bed; it’s profit for GEO and they’re hiring people,” Truxton said. “How is it any different than GM building a new plant in the Detroit area?”
The Baldwin facility accounts for roughly half of the taxable value of the surrounding township and has paid $8 million to upgrade and expand Baldwin’s waste water treatment plant to handle the prison’s new federal population, Truxton said.
“What a privately owned facility like North Lake Correctional Facility means to the poorest county in the state is $1.5 million in ad valorem taxes plus personal property taxes plus jobs,” he said.
The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns about the safety of private federal prisons in other states but did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the new population at North Lake Correction Facility.
The building was constructed in 1999 and contracted with the Michigan Department of Corrections through 2005 to house offenders under the age of 20, according to department spokesman Chris Gautz. The facility later had a brief contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and a small contract with the Vermont Department of Corrections in 2016.
GEO Group attempted to sell the prison to the Michigan Department of Corrections a few years ago, but with the group's last, best offer at $100 million the department declined, Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz said.
Privately owned facilities like the one in Baldwin generally present a lower-cost option for the housing of low-security federal prisoners. As of April 2017, the cost to house a low-security inmate at a contracted site such as the Baldwin prison averaged $68.19 a day, while housing an inmate in a low-security federal facility averaged $87.41 a day.
The Baldwin facility will be one of roughly a dozen private facilities contracted to house federal non-citizen offenders for the Bureau of Prisons. Of the 177,300 federal inmates currently housed by the federal bureau, 33,412 are non-U.S. citizens and nearly 16,000 of those non-U.S. citizens are housed in privately managed facilities like the one in Baldwin, according to federal data.
Roughly 10,200 inmates being housed within the Federal Bureau of Prisons are being held on immigration-related felonies.
The correction facility was built in 1999 and provided correctional services to the Michigan Department of Corrections for several years.
Earlier this year, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blocked the sale of a separate former state prison to a different company that wanted to open an immigration detention center in Ionia because the company — Immigration Centers of America — could not guarantee the facility would only be used to house single adults who were not separate from family when they arrived in the U.S.
The federal prison bureau began contracting with private companies in 1997 to decrease overcrowding and respond to congressional mandates, according to the U.S. Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Many of the inmates incarcerated in these contract prisons are Mexican nationals with convictions for immigration offenses who have 90 months or less remaining to serve on their sentences,” the inspector general said in a 2016 report.
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Friday, September 27, 2019
DOJ: Federal Law Enforcement Action Involving Fraudulent Genetic Testing Results in Charges Against 35 Individuals Responsible for Over $2.1 Billion in Losses in One of the Largest Health Care Fraud Schemes Ever Charged
T'is but a drop in the bucket.
Wait for Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.
Much love to my #Superfans, for there exists an entire industry of human asset management databases, where they like to do incredibly crafty revenue maximization schemes, like SACWIS.
This is modern day human trafficking and the battle of parental rights.
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Wait for Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.
Much love to my #Superfans, for there exists an entire industry of human asset management databases, where they like to do incredibly crafty revenue maximization schemes, like SACWIS.
This is modern day human trafficking and the battle of parental rights.
Elderly Patients Nationwide Lured into Criminal Scheme; Centers for Program Integrity & Medicare Services Takes Administrative Action against Providers that Submitted Over $1.7 Billion in Claims
A federal law enforcement action involving fraudulent genetic cancer testing has resulted in charges in five federal districts against 35 defendants associated with dozens of telemedicine companies and cancer genetic testing laboratories (CGx) for their alleged participation in one of the largest health care fraud schemes ever charged. According to the charges, these defendants fraudulently billed Medicare more than $2.1 billion for these CGx tests. Among those charged today are 10 medical professionals, including nine doctors.
The Department of Justice, Criminal Division, together with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) and FBI spearheaded today’s landmark investigation and prosecution that resulted in charges against CEOs, CFOs and others.
In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Center for Program Integrity (CMS/CPI), announced today that it took adverse administrative action against cancer genetic testing companies and medical professionals who submitted more than $1.7 billion in claims to the Medicare program.
Today’s announcement is a culmination of coordinated law enforcement activities over the past month that were led by the Criminal Division’s Health Care Fraud Unit, resulting in charges against over 380 individuals who allegedly billed federal health care programs for more than $3 billion and allegedly prescribed/dispensed approximately 50 million controlled substance pills in Houston, across Texas, the West Coast, the Gulf Coast, the Northeast, Florida and Georgia, and the Midwest. These include charges against 105 defendants for opioid-related offenses, and charges against 178 medical professionals.
Today’s enforcement actions were led and coordinated by the Health Care Fraud Unit of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section in conjunction with its Medicare Fraud Strike Force (MFSF), as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Southern District of Florida, Middle District of Florida, Southern District of Georgia, Eastern District of Louisiana, and Middle District of Louisiana. The MFSF is a partnership among the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the FBI, DEA and HHS-OIG. In addition, the operation included the participation of various other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, including the Louisiana Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
The coordinated federal investigation targeted an alleged scheme involving the payment of illegal kickbacks and bribes by CGx laboratories in exchange for the referral of Medicare beneficiaries by medical professionals working with fraudulent telemedicine companies for expensive cancer genetic tests that were medically unnecessary.
Often, the test results were not provided to the beneficiaries or were worthless to their actual doctors. Some of the defendants allegedly controlled a telemarketing network that lured hundreds of thousands of elderly and/or disabled patients into a criminal scheme that affected victims nationwide. The defendants allegedly paid doctors to prescribe CGx testing, either without any patient interaction or with only a brief telephonic conversation with patients they had never met or seen.
“These defendants allegedly duped Medicare beneficiaries into signing up for unnecessary genetic tests, costing Medicare billions of dollars,” Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Together with our law enforcement partners, the Department will continue to protect the public fisc and prosecute those who steal our taxpayer dollars.”
“The scope and sophistication of the health care fraud detected in Operation Double Helix and the related Operation Brace Yourself is nearly unprecedented. But the citizens of the Southern District of Georgia should know that we put together an unprecedented response,” said U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine of the Southern District of Georgia. “Our office charged more defendants, responsible for more health care fraud losses, than ever before in this office’s history. While these charges might be some of the first, they won’t be the last.”
“The defendants allegedly targeted elderly, disabled and other vulnerable consumers, luring them into this fraudulent scheme that affected victims nationwide and generated losses in excess of one billion dollars which spanned multiple jurisdictions,” said U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser for the Eastern District of Louisiana. “Schemes such as these have a profound effect on our nation, not only by the monies lost in the scheme, but also by stoking public distrust in some medical institutions. It is imperative to preserve taxpayer confidence whenever and wherever possible. Our office, along with our investigative partners, reminds seniors and their caregivers to be vigilant for fraudulent schemes. If you are aware of or believe you are the victim of a health care fraud scheme, please contact law enforcement.”
“The defendants are alleged to have capitalized on the fears of elderly Americans in order to induce them to sign up for unnecessary or non-existent cancer screening tests,” said U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida. “The genetic testing fraud schemes put personal greed above the preservation of the American health care system. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida, alongside our law enforcement and USAO partners, remains committed to protecting taxpayer dollars and the Medicare program from abuse.”
“We are honored to work every day alongside our law enforcement partners to stop the exploitation of vulnerable patients and misuse of taxpayer dollars,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “In order to prevent additional financial losses, CMS has taken swift action to protect the Medicare Trust Funds from the providers who allegedly have fraudulently billed over $1.7 billion. CMS continues to use a comprehensive and aggressive program integrity approach that includes fraud prevention, claims review, beneficiary education, and targeting high-risk areas of the federal healthcare programs with new tools and innovative demonstrations.”
“Healthcare fraud and related illegal kickbacks and bribes impact the entire nation," said Assistant Director Terry Wade of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division. “Fraudulently using genetic testing laboratories for unnecessary tests erodes the confidence of patients and costs taxpayers millions of dollars. These investigations revealed some medical professionals placing their greed before the needs of the patients and communities they serve. Today's law enforcement actions reinforce that the FBI, along with its partners, will continue to pursue and stop this type of illegal activity.”
“Unfortunately, audacious schemes such as those alleged in the indictments are pervasive and exploit the promise of new medical technologies such as genetic testing and telemedicine for financial gain, not patient care,” said Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Gary L. Cantrell of HHS-OIG. “Instead of receiving quality care, Medicare beneficiaries may be victimized in the form of scare tactics, identity theft, and in some cases, left to pay out of pocket. We will continue working with our law enforcement partners to investigate those who steal from federal healthcare programs and protect the millions of Americans who rely on them.”
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In the Southern District of Florida, the following defendants were charged:
Richard Garipoli, 42, of Loxahatchee, Florida, the owner of a telemedicine company Lotus Health LLC (Lotus Health), located in Loxahatchee, is charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks, and substantive counts of health care fraud and receiving kickbacks. The indictment charges that from January 2017 through September 2019, Garipoli, and unnamed co-conspirators, billed Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans over $326 million, for which Medicare paid over $84 million, for false and fraudulent Cancer Genomic tests (CGx Tests) that were not medically necessary, and not eligible for Medicare reimbursement. Doctors contracted with Lotus Health allegedly authorized bogus doctors’ orders that the CGx Tests were medically necessary when the doctors did not engage in treatment of the beneficiaries, had no physician-patient relationship with them, and often did not even speak with the beneficiaries for whom they ordered tests. The Indictment alleges that various companies paid kickbacks to Lotus Health in exchange for ordering and arranging for the ordering of CGx tests for Medicare beneficiaries, without regard to whether the CGx tests were medically necessary or eligible for Medicare reimbursement, and without regard for the fact that the tests were prescribed without any physician-patient relationship. Various laboratories including Clio Laboratories in Lawrenceville, Georgia and LabSolutions in Atlanta, Georgia and Easton, Pennsylvania then allegedly submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans for the false and fraudulent CGx tests that were not medically necessary and not eligible for Medicare reimbursement. Garipoli and others allegedly concealed the submission of these false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans; and diverted fraud proceeds for their personal use and benefit, the use and benefit of others and to further the fraud. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys James Hayes and Tim Loper of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section
Jamie Simmons, 62, a resident of South Carolina, and the owner of telemedicine companies MedSymphony LLC (MedSymphony) and Meetmydocc LLC (Meetmydoc) in Ft. Lauderdale Florida, is charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks, and substantive counts of health care fraud and receiving kickbacks. The indictment alleges that from January 2018 through September 2019, Simmons, and unnamed co-conspirators, billed Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans over $56 million, for which Medicare paid over $17 million, for false and fraudulent Cancer Genomic tests (CGx Tests) that were not medically necessary, and not eligible for Medicare reimbursement. Doctors contracted with MedSymphony authorized bogus doctors’ orders that the CGx Tests were medically necessary when the doctors did not engage in treatment of the beneficiaries, had no physician-patient relationship with them, and often did not even speak with the beneficiaries for whom they ordered tests. The Indictment alleges that various companies paid kickbacks to MedSymphony through Meetmydoc in exchange for ordering and arranging for the ordering of CGx tests for Medicare beneficiaries, without regard to whether the CGx tests were medically necessary or eligible for Medicare reimbursement, and without regard for the fact that the tests were prescribed without any physician-patient relationship. Various laboratories then submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans for the false and fraudulent CGx tests that were not medically necessary and not eligible for Medicare reimbursement. Simmons and others allegedly concealed the submission of these false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans; and diverted fraud proceeds for their personal use and benefit, the use and benefit of others and to further the fraud. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys James Hayes and Tim Loper.
Minal Patel, 40, of Atlanta, Georgia was charged based on his role in an alleged scheme to solicit medically unnecessary CGx tests from Medicare beneficiaries through telemarketing and “health fairs.” The tests were then approved by telemedicine doctors who allegedly did not engage in treatment of the beneficiaries, and often did not even speak with the beneficiaries for whom they ordered tests. Patel, the owner of LabSolutions in Georgia and Pennsylvania, then paid the telemarketers illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the doctor’s orders and medically unnecessary tests. LabSolutions billed Medicare for more than $494 million. In addition, the government seized approximately $30 million in bank accounts from Patel, as well as luxury vehicles, including a Ferrari and a Range Rover. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Tim Loper and James Hayes.
In the Eastern District of Louisiana, the following defendant was charged:
Khalid Satary, 47, of Suwanee, Georgia was charged based on his role in an alleged scheme to solicit medically unnecessary cancer genetic (CGx) tests from Medicare beneficiaries through telemarketing and “health fairs.” The tests were then approved by telemedicine doctors who did not engage in treatment of the beneficiaries, and often did not even speak with the beneficiaries for whom they ordered tests. Satary, the owner of several labs in Georgia, Oklahoma and Louisiana, and his co-conspirators, through companies they controlled, then paid the telemarketers illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the doctor’s orders and medically unnecessary tests. The labs included Performance Laboratories in Oklahoma, Lazarus Services in Louisiana, and Clio Labs in Georgia, where Elmore was CEO. Performance Labs, Clio Labs and Lazarus Services collectively billed Medicare for more than $547 million. In addition, the government seized 16 bank accounts and restrained real estate from Satary. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Timothy Loper and Jared Hasten.
In the Southern District of Georgia, 19 defendants were charged:
Anthony T. Securo, 56, of Columbus, Georgia, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Savannah, Georgia, for his role in a scheme to bill Medicare and other health benefit programs for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment. According to the indictment, Securo, a medical doctor, signed thousands of orders for durable medical equipment for Medicare beneficiaries he claimed to be “treating,” but in fact never even met. These thousands of items were billed to Medicare for more than $23 million. According to the indictment, Securo ordered these medically unnecessary items after having short telephone conversations with the patients, but then signed medical records stating that Securo had performed examinations or physical tests of the patients that were never actually performed.
In addition, 18 other defendants were charged in the Southern District of Georgia by way of criminal information. The 18 other defendants include two “telemedicine” physician recruiters, seven physicians, two nurse practitioners, two individuals who brokered the sale of physician orders, one company that brokered the sale of physician orders, and four durable medical equipment companies. In total, the 19 defendants charged in the Southern District of Georgia were responsible for over $400 million in genetic testing, durable medical equipment, and pain cream billing to Medicare, according to court documents. The cases are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys J. Thomas Clarkson Jonathan A. Porter of the Southern District of Georgia
In the Northern District of Texas, the following defendant was charged:
Daniel R. Canchola, M.D., 49, Flower Mound Texas, a physician, was charged for his alleged referral of Medicare beneficiaries for medically unnecessary “cancer screening,” or “CGx,” genetic tests. Canchola received illegal kickbacks and bribes for the CGx orders he signed, and he did so without examining or speaking to patients and in the absence of any physician-patient relationship. Oftentimes the beneficiaries for whom Canchola ordered CGx tests never received their test results. From in or about January 2018 through in or about March 2019, Canchola caused the submission of over $69 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Brynn Schiess of the Fraud Section.
Sekhar Rao, M.D., 48 of Austin, Texas, and Vinay Parameswara, M.D., 46, of Austin, Texas, were charged for their role in alleged referrals of TRICARE beneficiaries for medically unnecessary “cancer screening” genetic tests and toxicology tests. Rao and Parameswara did not examine or speak with the beneficiaries they signed testing orders for and there was no physician-patient relationship between the physicians and these beneficiaries. Tests were repeated many times and beneficiaries often did not receive the results of their tests. From in or about May 2014 and until in or about June 2016, Rao, Parameswara and others caused the submission of over $36 million in false and fraudulent claims to TRICARE. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Chief Adrienne Frazior of the Fraud Section.
In the Middle District of Florida, the following defendant was charged:
Ivan Andre Scott, 34, Kissimmee, Florida, a marketer, was charged for his role in an alleged $2.8 million scheme to provide Medicare beneficiary information to doctors and telemedicine companies, that could then be billed for medically unnecessary genetic testing. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Alejandro J. Salicrup of the Fraud Section.
In the Middle District of Louisiana, the following defendants were charged:
Mark Allen, 51, of Greer, South Carolina, and Kevin Hanley, 42, of Prairieville, Louisiana, were charged for their roles in an alleged scheme to solicit medically unnecessary cancer genetic (CGx) tests from Medicare beneficiaries, have the tests approved by telemedicine doctors who did not engage in treatment of the beneficiaries, and submit claims through clinical testing laboratories that paid kickbacks in exchange for the referrals. Allen and his co-conspirators, through companies they controlled, solicited the tests and arranged for approvals by telemedicine providers. They then transmitted the test samples and orders to labs in Louisiana, including Acadian Diagnostic Laboratories LLC, where Hanley was the CFO, and elsewhere. Acadian, through Hanley and others, paid kickbacks to companies controlled by Allen and others to obtain the referrals, and submitted claims to Medicare for the tests. Acadian and other labs billed Medicare for more than $240 million. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Tim Loper, Justin Woodard and Gary Winters of the Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristen Craig of the Middle District of Louisiana.
In addition, as part of the Northeast Regional Takedown announced on Sept. 26, the District of New Jersey announced charges against the following:
Matthew S. Ellis, MD, 53, of Gainesville, Florida; Edward B. Kostishion, 59, of Lakeland, Florida; Kyle D. Mclean, 36, of Arlington Heights, Illinois; Kacey C. Plaisance, 38, of Altamonte Springs, Florida; Jeremy Richey, 39, of Mars, Pennsylvania; and Jeffrey Tamulski, 46, of Tampa, Florida. Kostishion, Plaisance, and Richey operated Ark Laboratory Network LLC (Ark), a company that purported to operate a network of laboratories that facilitated genetic testing. Ark partnered with Privy Health, Inc., a company that McLean operated, and another company to acquire DNA samples and Medicare information from hundreds of patients through various methods, including offering $75 gift cards to patients, all without the involvement of a treating health care professional. Ellis, a physician based in Gainesville, served as the ordering physician who authorized genetic testing for hundreds of patients across the country that he never saw, examined, or treated. These included patients from New Jersey and various other states where Ellis was not licensed to practice medicine. Through this process, Ellis, Kostishion, Plaisance, and McLean submitted and caused to be submitted fraudulent orders for genetic tests to numerous clinical laboratories. These orders falsely certified that Ellis was the patients’ treating physician and, in many cases, contained false information indicating that a patient had a personal or family history of cancer, when, in fact, the patient had no cancer history whatsoever. In 2018 alone, Medicare paid clinical laboratories at least approximately $4.6 million for genetic tests that Ellis ordered in this manner. In addition, Kostishion, Plaisance, Richey, and Tamulski entered into kickback agreements with certain clinical laboratories under which the laboratories would pay Ark a bribe in exchange for delivering DNA samples and orders for genetic tests. The bribe payments were based on the percentage of Medicare revenue that the laboratories received in connection with the tests. Among other things, Kostishion, Plaisance, Richey, and Tamulski concealed these kickback arrangements through issuing sham invoices to laboratories that purportedly reflected services provided at an hourly rate even though the parties had already agreed upon the bribe amount, which was based on the revenue the laboratories received. In 2018, the clinical laboratories paid Ark at least approximately $1.8 million in bribes. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Bernard Cooney of the District of New Jersey.
A complaint, information or indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
The Fraud Section leads the Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which maintains 15 strike forces operating in 24 districts, has charged nearly 4,000 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $16 billion. In addition, the HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.
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Friday, August 23, 2019
Mother Nature Has Blessed The Earth In Completing The Cycle Of Life For David Koch - Uranium In Detroit
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I bet the Detroit Land Bank Authority is filing quiet titles as we speak.
I wonder how Hillary is going to fund her 2020 campaign, now.
I wonder if Rashida has any final words.
I heard rumors DTE is illegally burning downblended uranium residuals for super cheap electricity in the Monroe plant, the illegally transporting to Detroit, paying off the union to look the other way, the morbidly upcharging the customers, and asking Michigan for rate increases, and being granted, but hey, what do I know?
I know DTE has child welfare NGOs with childrens' trusts, that they are investing in overseas projects to expand their maximization of revenue because it is illegal to use the word "profit".
Koch Brothers: Billionaires Place 3-Story Pile Of Petroleum Coke in Detroit
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, dies at 79
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, has died.He was 79. He and his brother, Charles, co-owned Koch Industries, a Nebraska-based energy and chemical company, since 1983. David stepped down from running the Koch organization last year due to declining health.
The Koch brothers helped to build a massive conservative network of donors for organizations that work to mobilize voters and sway elected officials in support of libertarian-leaning economic policies.
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Saturday, August 3, 2019
DOJ: Former South Carolina Resident Sentenced to Federal Prison for Charity Fraud Scheme Targeting Marine Corps Families
It happens every single day.
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Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that John Shannon Simpson, age 44, of Lee County, Florida, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to Wire Fraud. United States District Judge David C. Norton of Charleston sentenced Simpson to four years in federal prison and three years of supervised release to follow. This sentence will run consecutively with a nine-year state sentence that Simpson is serving in Florida. Simpson was also ordered to pay restitution of $141,709.44 to the victims of his fraud.
Evidence presented to the court established that in May 2014, Simpson founded a charitable organization entitled “Marines and Mickey” and served as the President. The purpose of the charity was to provide funds to selected United States Marines Corps (USMC) service members and their families to defray their costs of visiting the Walt Disney Resorts. The charity was also supposed to provide funds to the families of newly graduated Marines to defray the families’ costs of attending USMC boot camp graduations, including some held at Parris Island, South Carolina, and San Diego, California.
The charity claimed in its promotions and requests for money that 100% of the donations went directly to Marines and their families through the charity’s programs. The charity actively solicited donations on and near the USMC base in Parris Island, South Carolina, and elsewhere. The remainder of monies raised by the charity were a combination of private and corporate donations to the charity, including by USMC recruits and recent boot camp graduates.
While acting as the charity’s President and in support of fundraising for the charity, Simpson falsely represented himself as a retired career Marine with as much as 20 years of service, a retired Master Sergeant, a former Drill Instructor, and a Recon Marine.
In fact, Simpson spent less than five years in the Marine Corps. He entered active duty on June 28, 1993. He was absent without leave (AWOL) from June 10, 1996, to June 19, 1997. The highest rank he achieved prior to going AWOL was Lance Corporal/E-3, and his operational specialty was Basic Disbursing Clerk. Simpson was found guilty at a Special Court Martial for violation of Article 86 (Absence without leave) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, was reduced in rank to Private/E-1, and was given a Bad-Conduct Discharge, which was effective on May 5, 1998.
By misleading donors and volunteers about his military background, Simpson was able to add credibility to his solicitations for money.
The charity was in operation from May 2014 through 2016, and it received approximately $481,000 in donations during that time-period. However, despite Simpson’s claims that 100% of the donations would go to Marines and their families through the charity’s programs, only about $90,000—or about 19% of the donations—were used for charitable purposes. Simpson diverted the remainder of the monies in the charitable accounts, approximately $391,000, for his personal use and enrichment.
The primary victim of Simpson’s scheme was the mother of a United States Marine killed in the active shooter attack at a military center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015. Simpson fraudulently induced the Gold Star mother and others to give Simpson’s charity about $131,000, all in honor of the Gold Star mother’s son, including $75,000 of the Gold Star mother’s own money and $25,000 that the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga donated at the direction of the Gold Star mother.
The charity also held a fundraising benefit in New York to raise money for a Disney World trip for a Marine family whose minor daughter was terminally ill. The charity advertised all proceeds from the event would go to the minor daughter and her family for a Disney World trip, and to help pay for the family’s needs. Because the minor daughter died prior to the fundraiser, the trip intended for the minor daughter and her family, including her father who is an active duty U.S. Marine Corps Drill Sergeant, was donated to another family at the request of the minor daughter’s family. However, the charity, after paying all of the expenses of the fundraiser and sending the other Marine family to Disney World, still had about $3,200 of donations left over. Simpson kept that money for himself instead of giving it to the minor daughter’s family.
Additionally, during 2015 and 2016, Simpson made unauthorized withdrawals from the bank accounts of at least seven active-duty Marines who had recently graduated from boot camp. Simpson convinced them to allow him to make recurring withdrawals from their accounts in nominal amounts to support the charity. Instead, he used their debit card numbers to make unauthorized withdrawals from their accounts in a combined total amount of more than $5,000.
The case was investigated by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Assistant United States Attorney Dean H. Secor of the Charleston office prosecuted the case.
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Friday, August 2, 2019
DOJ: Michigan Defendant Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Steal From an Organization Receiving Federal Funds
But from whom did they get those stolen police reports?
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A Palm Beach County, Florida, resident pleaded guilty today in Flint, Michigan, to conspiring to steal from an organization receiving federal funds, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. In May 2018, John Capella also pleaded guilty to conspiring to impede the lawful functions of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in connection with this scheme.
According to court documents, from August 2012 through May 2018, John Capella and his co-defendants, using the company Blue Horseshoe Consulting Inc. (Blue Horseshoe), obtained police reports, stolen from the Detroit Police Department, which contained automobile crash victim information. Capella and his co-conspirators used the stolen information to solicit automobile accident victims for medical and chiropractic services. Capella and his co-conspirators also underreported to the IRS gross receipts they received from Blue Horseshoe operations and the total wages Blue Horseshoe paid to its employees.
United States District Court Judge Matthew F. Leitman scheduled sentencing for Capella for Jan. 15, 2020. Capella faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of the two conspiracy counts. Capella also faces a period of supervised release, restitution and monetary penalties.
Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Goldberg thanked special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who conducted the investigation, and Tax Division Trial Attorneys Mark McDonald and William Guappone, who are prosecuting the case.
Additional information about the Tax Division’s enforcement efforts can be found on the division’s website.
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
DOJ: Michigan Defendant Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Steal From an Organization Receiving Federal Funds
Now, how is it those police reports were stolen from the Detroit Police Department?
Hmmmmmm......
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Hmmmmmm......
A Palm Beach County, Florida, resident pleaded guilty today in Flint, Michigan, to conspiring to steal from an organization receiving federal funds, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. In May 2018, John Capella also pleaded guilty to conspiring to impede the lawful functions of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in connection with this scheme.
According to court documents, from August 2012 through May 2018, John Capella and his co-defendants, using the company Blue Horseshoe Consulting Inc. (Blue Horseshoe), obtained police reports, stolen from the Detroit Police Department, which contained automobile crash victim information. Capella and his co-conspirators used the stolen information to solicit automobile accident victims for medical and chiropractic services. Capella and his co-conspirators also underreported to the IRS gross receipts they received from Blue Horseshoe operations and the total wages Blue Horseshoe paid to its employees.
United States District Court Judge Matthew F. Leitman scheduled sentencing for Capella for Jan. 15, 2020. Capella faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of the two conspiracy counts. Capella also faces a period of supervised release, restitution and monetary penalties.
Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Goldberg thanked special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who conducted the investigation, and Tax Division Trial Attorneys Mark McDonald and William Guappone, who are prosecuting the case.
Additional information about the Tax Division’s enforcement efforts can be found on the division’s website.
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