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Putting the Bite on Hospitals
"This story uncovered the details of a massive whistleblower lawsuit against Novation, the alrgest broker of medical goods in the country, which is accused of unethical contacting practices costing the government billions of dollars in fraudulent healthcare claims."
Tags: health
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Shriners Hospitals for Children Investigation Series
Freelance reporter Sandy Frost investigated a tip from Shriner Vernon Hill that there were irregularities in the way the fraternal Shriners organization and the charitable Shriners organizations were handling their money and not complying with Standards For Charitable Accountability.
Tags: Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine AKA Shriners; Standards for Charity Accountability; 2001 Criminal Tax Manual; Hershel Gober; Philanthropic Research, Inc. AKA Guidestar.org; Second Avenue Partners; Mike Slade; Aquantive; Nick Hanauer; Shriners; Masons; Knights Templar; Royal Order of Jesters; National Sojourners Order of Quetzacoatl; Mike Severe, Imperial Officer, Shrine of America; compensation; real estate transactions; excessive benefit transactions; charitable donation fraud; HIPPA; Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; Vernon Hill; Suite101.com; Paul Dolnier; 501c10 non profit fraternal corporation; 501c3 non profit charity; Better Business Bureau; Charity Watch Center; Pennsylvania's Charitable Special Investigation Unit; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; good old boy system; U.S. Senate Committee on Finance; whistleblower retaliation; Charles G. Cumpstone Jr., Potentate Stewart W. Lewis; Charities Review Council of Minnesota; Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; GAAP; Independent Sector; SLAPP: strategic lawsuits against public participation; Cabiri Royal Order of Scotland; International Order of Demolay
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Omnicare
A lawsuit has targeted Omnicare, the "nation's largest supplier of drugs to senior citizens in nursing homes and assisted living facilities." Spurred by the whistle-blower's tip, the CBS Evening News investigates the lawsuit, which alleges that Omnicare CEO Joel Gemunder conspired to defraud Medicaid.
Tags: Omnicare; Medicaid; Medicare; fraud; Joel Gemunder; Total Pharmacy
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War Profiteers?
This CBS 60 Minutes segment uses the story of two men with no experience who were awarded multi-million dollar contracts from the Provisional Coalition Authority in Iraq as a lead into the allegations of war profiteering by larger companies like Halliburton and Kellogg, Brown and Root.
Tags: Iraq; Afghanistan; Middle East; Green Zone; corruption; graft; fraud; kickbacks; bribery; waste; Army Rangers; breach of contract; Custer Battles; Scott Custer; Mike Battles; Ambassador Paul Bremer; Colonel Richard Ballard; Frank Willis; procurement; war profiteers; Coalition Provisional Authority; Coalition Authority's Ministry of Finance; Colonel Philip Wilkinson; Robert Isaacson; Cayman Islands; Justice Department; whistleblower lawsuit; Halliburton; Kellogg, Brown and Root; KBR; Senator Byron Dorgan; Special Inspector General Stuart Bowen;
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Honolulu Liquor Commission
KITV-TV revealed the "Honolulu Liquor Commission spent $580,000 on investigations and lawsuits about corruption, workplace violence and sexual harassment" over the most recent three-year period -- 20 percent of its annual budget. The commission paid thousands for lawyers to protect employees accused of misconduct. Also, "at the same time, the commission failed to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines from bars and nightclubs, and does not have investigators on duty seven nights a week." A former whistleblower who testified before a grand jury about the situation was threatened and subsequently forced to leave Hawaii; another employee revealed that workers had been "openly threatened with harm or even death, if they talk to the media or the feds or any other investigation."
Tags: liquor; government; corruption; misconduct; harassment; agencies; alcohol; bars; nightclubs; club; drinking; bribe; payoff
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"Side Effects: Pharmacist Bob Gusich has been a real pill for the state prison system"
Pharmacist Bob Gusich was fired from the Colorado Department of Corrections after speaking out about shoddy practices in his DOC clinic. The story looks into conditions in the prison's medical care program and the testimony surrounding Gusich's whistleblower protection lawsuit.
Tags: pharmacy; whistleblower; corrections; Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center; DRDC; medical; nurse; doctor
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Firestone
CBS News reports on "new dimensions of the Firestone Tire/Ford fiasco, as the first lawsuits were heard in court and new allegations involving other Firestone tires surfaced." The series exposes legal tricks Firestone used to delay trials and frustrate victims, and sheds light on some recently discovered problems with Firestone rescue vehicle tires. The major finding is that there is a pattern of cover-ups in regard to the tire blowouts both in Firestone and Ford. The investigative team has conducted off-the-record interviews with Firestone employees who confirm information on continuing flaws in production.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; consumer affairs; defective tires; road accidents; whistleblowers; SUVs; deaths; drivers; Ford Bronco; courts; lawyers; cars
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The Great Minnow Hunt
"The FBI's 20-month investigation of corruption at the San Francisco Housing Authority seems to have netted one minnow as sharks swam free. Last summer, in what seems to herald the end of a federal investigation of the Housing Authority, a federal jury found a mid-level housing manager guilty of taking bribes to provide subsidized housing certificates to people who were ineligible to receive them. But transcripts of FBI interviews with the prosecution s chief witness, sworn depositions in a whistleblower lawsuit, exhibits in the housing manager's trial, and a HUD inspector general's reporter all suggest that high-ranking city officials and a longtime s associates of Mayor Willie Brown had knowledge of, or were involved in, the bribery conspiracy."
Tags: San Francisco Housing Authority; Human Rights Commission; felony bribery; contracts; favoritism; Scott Company; affirmative action laws; minority-ownership; elibility; federal grants; Section 8; U.S. Attorney General
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The Orkin Man
WFLA-TV reports "that a company that promotes itself as a leader in the pest control industry defrauded its termite customers. Target 8 discovered Orkin falsified home inspection tickets, failed to provide termite treatment that homeowners paid for, leaving the homes of customers susceptible to termite invasion and damage. In subsequent stories we revealed Orkin manipulated bids on a public works project in Clearwater and that the company cheated taxpayers when it used only a fraction of the gas necessary (for treatment) in Hillsborough County public schools...."
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Seeing Red
The St. Louis Riverfront Times reports how "after years of taking it on the chin, Bob Goeggel (owner of the largest private, for-profit ambulance company in St. Louis) struck back at his competitor. Thanks to his accusations of fraud, the state's largest ambulance company is on the operating table and the feds are doing the cutting. Thanks to a whistle-blower lawsuit Goeggel filed in late 1996, the federal government has just accused Abbott ... and its former chief executive officer, Terrence W. Dougherty, of systematically looting the Medicare program."
Tags: Medicare fraud; ambulance services