1…………> Home Health Care Fraud: Miami
The owner and operator of two defunct Miami home health agencies was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for her role in a $74 million conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program.
Sila Luis, 59, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke of the Southern District of Florida. Judge Cooke also ordered the defendant to pay $45 million in restitution and to forfeit the gross proceeds traced to the offense. Luis pleaded guilty on June 28, to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
As part of her guilty plea, Luis admitted that, between January 2006 and June 2012, she and her co-conspirators agreed to, and actually did, operate LTC Professional Consultants Inc. (LTC) in order to fraudulently bill the Medicare program for home health care services, including diabetic injections, skilled nursing visits, physical therapy, and other treatments and services. Professional Home Care Solutions Inc. was another home health agency under Luis’s ownership and control that was involved in the conspiracy. Luis further admitted that she and her co-conspirators enlisted and paid patient recruiters kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the referral of Medicare beneficiaries to LTC. Had Medicare known that Luis paid bribes and kickbacks to attract beneficiaries to her facilities, Medicare would not have paid any claims submitted on behalf of those beneficiaries.
Judge Cooke determined at sentencing that Luis was responsible for an intended loss of $74 million to the Medicare program.
2…………> Crimes Against Humanity: Bosnia
Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was jailed for life by UN judges after being found guilty of crimes against humanity, including genocide of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys who perished at Srebrenica in 1995.
His involvement extended to the genocide and persecution, extermination, murder, and the inhumane act of forcible transfer in Srebrenica.
3…………> A Handgrenade Thank-You Note: US DOD
A truck bombing in Mogadishu that killed over 350 people and was blamed on Al-Qaeda aligned al-Shabaab Islamic terrorists was repaid in full when 100 of its lunatics were killed in an American airstrike in Somalia using a pair of F35 aircraft.
“U.S. forces will continue to use all authorized and appropriate measures to protect Americans and to disable terrorist threats,” said an AFRICOM statement.
4…………> Biohackers: Your Own Risk
“We do not advise that anyone watching this video do what is about to be done here. Tristan Roberts is completely within his rights according to the FDA and the rule of law in this nation… to self-experiment on himself in any way that he deems medically appropriate. It is his body and it is his right,” said Aaron Traywick, head of Ascendance Biomedical, about the first human to inject an untested, experimental gene therapy into his stomach fat.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41990981
5…………> Trump’s Military Aides Fired: Vietnam
Members of the White House Communications Agency, a military unit that provides secure communication channels for the White House, have been removed from their positions after being accused of improper contact with foreign women during President Donald Trump’s recent trip through Asia, and are currently being investigated by DOD.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/military-staff-removed-white-house-041443108.html
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