Wednesday 20 February 2013

An FBI Case - Optometrist Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud Charge

Instead of billing Medicare for the actual service Jeffrey Sponseller (the Optometrist) was providing at the nursing homes, he claimed that he was conducting the most expensive type of eye examination, which typically lasts 45 minutes!
http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2013/augusta-optometrist-pleads-guilty-to-health-care-fraud-charge

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Leighton Contractors Sues Over Fraud

Damian Victor O'Carrigan, former long-time finance manager for Construction giant Leighton Contractors and part of the publicly listed Leighton Holdings (Australia's largest project development and contracting group) will be sentenced in April after pleading guilty to stealing more than $20 million from Leighton's coffers over 12 years.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/former-leighton-contractors-manager-damian-victor-ocarrigan-pleads-guilty-to-simple-20m-deception/story-e6frg6n6-1226523111799

Leighton Contractors is now suing the wife, daughter and a female acquaintance of O'Carrigan for gifts received.