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Attorney General Files Criminal Charges Against Spokane-Based Health Business for Fraud, Organized Crime
SPOKANE — Today the Washington Attorney General announced the filing of charging documents in Spokane County Superior Court filing numerous felony charges against Paul Means and his business, Abilia Healthcare. Means is charged with: One count of Leading Organized Crime, RCW 9A.82.060(1)(a), a Class A felony One count of Theft in First Degree, RCW 9A.56.020(1)(b) and RCW 9A.56.030(1)(a), a Class B felony Two counts of Use of Proceeds of Criminal Profiteering, RCW 9A.82.080(1)(a), a Class B felony Twenty counts of Money Laundering, RCW 9A.83.020(1)(a), a Class B felony Forty-three counts of Medicaid False Statement, RCW 74.09.230(1), a Class C felony One count of Witness Tampering, under RCW 9A.72.130, a Class C Felony…
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Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani will not face criminal charges for Ukraine work
US President Donald Trump’s individual law firm Rudy Giuliani speaks as Trump supporters collect by the White Household ahead of his speech to contest the certification by the US Congress of the success of the 2020 US presidential election in Washington, January 6, 2021. Jim Bourg | Reuters Previous New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will not facial area criminal costs in an investigation into regardless of whether he violated US lobbying guidelines while carrying out organization in Ukraine, federal prosecutors advised a decide Monday. Giuliani, who has acted as former President Donald Trump’s individual attorney in the previous, faced a federal grand jury probe in the Southern District of…
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As hospital charges climb, workers and businesses pay the price
Despite a modern taxpayer-backed boon, the hospital marketplace invested the last numerous months lobbying for further federal pounds amid warnings about the ongoing spread of Covid-19 and inflation’s effect on the nation’s health and fitness treatment method. Individuals initiatives bore fruit: Medicare just lately granted hospitals the major rate increase considering that 1998. By no means brain that the supply chain challenges and climbing expenses facing hospitals essentially are no unique than the economic pressures confronting just about all U.S. businesses. In its place of more efficiently running expenditures and improving upon efficiencies, hospitals assume taxpayers, businesses, and America’s employees to subsidize their cash flow and profitability. To be confident,…
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FTC Charges HomeAdvisor, Inc. with Cheating Businesses, Including Small Businesses, Seeking Leads for Home Improvement Projects
The Federal Trade Commission today issued an administrative criticism towards Denver-dependent HomeAdvisor, Inc. – a company affiliated with Angi – alleging it used a wide range of misleading and misleading tactics in providing property improvement undertaking potential customers to company vendors, which include tiny businesspeople working in the “gig” economy. The FTC’s grievance versus HomeAdvisor alleges that given that at the very least the center of 2014 it has designed wrong, misleading, or unsubstantiated statements about the excellent and source of the prospects the company sells to assistance providers, these kinds of as standard contractors and smaller garden care businesses, who are in lookup of potential consumers. “Gig financial state…