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
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More Urine Trouble
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
If you think God is telling you to do fraud.
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
Crypto bros perpetrate pig butchering scheme.
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
Fraud is . . . billing for time spent watching “There’s Something About Mary”
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
“Home” healthcare company doesn’t provide services in-home
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
Kickbacks disguised as “affiliations”
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
Whistleblowers expose crypto fraud
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
Fraud is … a pharmacy billing for drugs that were never ordered.
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
When bots blow the whistle.
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