Articles about Fraud Scheme

• FBI arrested eight individuals, including three nurses, a chiropractor, and a psychologist, in a Los Angeles healthcare fraud operation targeting over $50 million from the US system. • Gladwin and Amelou Gill allegedly created a hospice in their daughter's name, swindling over $7 million from taxpayers. • Six defendants face initial appearances in US District Court in downtown Los Angeles, with one in Idaho; the scheme ties to broader hospice fraud concerns in LA.

• Eight defendants, including three nurses, a chiropractor, and a psychologist, have been arrested on federal charges for defrauding the health care system of more than $50 million through sham hospice care facilities. • The scheme involved running hospice operations that billed Medicare by enrolling people without terminal illnesses as beneficiaries, with Valley Pacific Hospice Inc. in Simi Valley having its Medicare enrollment revoked in August 2024. • The arrests were coordinated with the Vice President's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, with six defendants making initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and one in Idaho.

Flawed Home Office travel records identified thousands of parents suspected of claiming while living abroadThe UK’s public spending watchdog has launched an investigation into a controversial government anti-fraud scheme that resulted in thousands of families being wrongly stripped of their child benefit payments.The National Audit Office (NAO) will examine how HM Revenue and Customs designed and implemented a scheme that used flawed Home Office travel records to identify parents suspected of living abroad while still claiming child benefit. Continue reading...