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Posted by Ovais Ahmed. An article posted on bloomberg.com talks about an appeal made by ex-Goldman Sachs trader Deeb Salem to get an extra $5 million he thinks he deserves in bonus money. He has already received $8.25 million and still wants to get more money out of his former company. I don’t understand why the …

DOJ Announces Charges Against 400 People for $1.3 Billion in Health-Care Fraud

Posted by Devaki Sidhaye. Recently department of Justice announced largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 individuals, including 115 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals. Their involvement in health care fraud scams totaling approximately $1.3 billion in false billings. As per the department, many of the …

Draft Kings, Fanduel Granted Emergency Stay to Continue in N.Y.

Posted by Stephen D’Angelo. Just six hours after New York Attorney General placed a temporary injunction, which would stop sites like Fanduel and DraftKings from doing business in New York, an appellate court saved them by issuing an emergency temporary stay that will allow New Yorkers to continue to use Fanduel and Draft Kings until …

DOJ Announces Charges Against 400 People for $1.3 Billion in Health-Care Fraud

Posted by Devaki Sidhaye. Recently department of Justice announced largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 individuals, including 115 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals. Their involvement in health care fraud scams totaling approximately $1.3 billion in false billings. As per the department, many of the …

Uber’s New Drivers Agreement Could Undermine Judge’s Ruling In Class Action Lawsuit

Posted by Stephen D’Angelo. Friday morning, two days after the judge presiding the Uber class action lawsuit decided that drivers attempting to arbitrate can be included in the law suit, Uber sent drivers a new agreement. The document undermined the judge’s ruling by revising the arbitration clause. Liss-Riordan and her team are filing an emergency motion …

Tesla Attempts to Bypass Dealerships

Posted by Ali Paladino. Recently, on September 1, 2016, the electric car maker Tesla Motors was called out for attempting to sell their vehicles directly to their customers in Missouri. The judge ruled Tesla’s efforts to rule out the middleman, car dealerships, violated state law.  The Missouri Revenue Department “gave the California-based manufacturer a license …

New Standards in the PCAOB

Posted by Kimberly Culcay. In the article, “What the PCAOB’s new related-party standard means for auditors,” Maria L. Murphy captures the new standard put in place by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The new standard will require auditors to perform specific procedures that are intended to strengthen auditor performance in high-risk areas, such …

Prevalence of Health Care Fraud

Posted by Sabrina Gilliam Formey. Health care fraud may be more extensive than fraud in other industries because deception branches from an assorted group of players; those players being insurance companies, pharmacists, providers, suppliers, health care vendors, health care provider employees, physicians, specialists, and patients.  To compound the problem, some of those players are not only …

Sacramento Kings Limited Partnership LP v. M-F Athletic Co. Inc.

Posted by Abigail Hofmann. Francisco Garcia of the Sacramento Kings was lifting weights on a Ledraplastic exercise ball on October 9th, 2009. The 195 pound player was lifting two 80 pound weights while on the ball when it suddenly burst beneath him. This supposed “burst resistant” ball advertised its ability to withstand weight up to …

Default Judgement Against BofA for $1 Million

Bank of America must pay a Florida couple for failing to answer a harassment complaint.  The couple received relentless phone calls from the bank regarding past due payments on a mortgage. BofA alleged the calls “were not to collect debt, but help the couple avoid foreclosure.”  The couple, however, claimed they received about 700 calls over a four year …