Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. agreed to pay $269.2 million to settle U.S. claims that the drugstore chain defrauded a federally-funded health-care program over insulin drugs and a consumer-discount initiative. The two settlements, announced Tuesday, cover allegations over improper billing. In ...

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HOUSTON — Soon after he opened his office serving immigrants fighting to stay in the United States, Raed Gonzalez became a lawyer who goes after other lawyers. A person with a winnable case can be thrown into deportation by a ...

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For the eleventh year in a row, internet-related problems topped the 2016 list of the most common consumer fraud complaints to the New York Attorney General’s office. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the list on Monday, at the start ...

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In the years before Mark Nordlicht was arrested for what’s alleged to be one of the biggest investment frauds since Bernie Madoff’s, U.S. authorities had plenty of reasons to suspect something might have been fishy about his hedge fund, Platinum ...

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NEW YORK — Hedge fund executives were charged Monday in a $1 billion fraud case linked to an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed three workers and injured several others. Officials with Platinum Partners were to ...

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BUFFALO — A western New York doctor has pleaded guilty to improperly prescribing painkillers, some of which he took himself. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Buffalo says Albert Cowie, of Amherst, pleaded guilty to fraud on Thursday. Prosecutors say the ...

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BUFFALO — A businessman is accused of trying to cheat the IRS using shell companies and multiple bank and trust accounts. Real estate developer Frank Parlato Jr. was scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Buffalo Monday on charges ...

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A former Oneida County drug treatment center director will not have to pay the state $675,984 it claimed was owed in restitution for improperly billing Medicaid by having clients simultaneously enrolled in two programs. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department has ...

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Dr. Thomas F. Stephenson, 72, of Rochester, has pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr. to committing health care fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of ...

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WASHINGTON — Phony applicants that investigators signed up last year under President Barack Obama’s health care law got automatically re-enrolled for 2015. Some were rewarded with even bigger taxpayer subsidies for their insurance premiums, a congressional probe has found. The ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit – Fraud – Loss Causation – Negligence – Sufficient Allegations   Fin. Guar. Ins. Co. v. Putnam Advisory Co. 14-1673-cv Judges Kearse, Straub and Raggi   Background: The plaintiff argued that the ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit – Fraud – Loss Causation – Negligence – Sufficient Allegations   Fin. Guar. Ins. Co. v. Putnam Advisory Co. 14-1673-cv Judges Kearse, Straub and Raggi   Background: The plaintiff argued that the ...

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