The United States spent a lot of money responding to COVID. Like, a lot a lot. How much? How about $4.4 trillion. If COVID spending was a country, it would be the fourth largest country in the world by GDP, beating out Japan, India, and every European country except Germany.
Some of that
This is not the first time we’ve commented on fraudulent urine tests. This scheme is a little different from the last time though. This time, the lab was actually doing the tests. It wasn’t the doing the tests that was the problem. No, this time the problem is that the tests were not necessary.
As excuses go, “the dog ate my homework” is pretty piss-poor. It raises way more questions than it answers: How’d the dog get on your desk? Why was your homework covered in beef gravy? What dogs love paper covered with graphite and eraser shavings anyways?
But if you’re going to commit fraud, then using god
I don’t know much about farm life. I mean, sure, I have kids so I read children’s literature which is full of farm animals acting like real people. But I can’t milk a cow or harvest wheat or grow a soybean.
But I do know the phrase “fatten a pig for slaughter.” Don’t need to
I thought we all agreed, as a society, not to mess around with fire prevention at a nuclear site. That seems like something we could all get behind, right? Think again.
Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (“HMIS”) has a contract to clean up the DOE Hanford Nuclear site. The Hanford site was established in 1943 as
Old people don’t like leaving their homes. They especially don’t like moving out of the home that they’ve lived in for 20 or 30 years. And they especially don’t want to be moved to a nursing home (aka senior living community aka elder care facility aka retirement home). But old people also tend to need
A kick back is basically a bribe. A Referring Business sends a customer to a Serving Business. The patient pays the Serving Business which sends part of the payment back to the Referring Business. I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Nice and cozy.
In the healthcare context, the customer is a “patient” who is
Until recently there were only two ways to make money with crypto. The first is buy and hodl bitcoin or ethereum. But mostly bitcoin. The other was to fraudulently boost the price of a token with with some sort of fraudulent activity like a pump and dump scheme, wash trading, or both.
But where there
For a lawyer, the cardinal rule of billing is that you cannot bill two clients for the same hour of work. For a lawyer, inventory is limited to 24 hours in day.
For a pharmacy to operate legitimately, it has to take in orders for drugs and then dispense those orders. Without those two critical
Anyone from a secretary to a CEO can be a whistleblower. Apparently, so can robots.
A firm that uses data to identify fraud in government programs just received a $1 million reward under the False Claims Act for exposing PPP fraud.
That firm “uses data to investigate large-scale corporate fraud . . . It
