Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty to Scamming $4.5 Million from Elderly Friends
Paul Simoneachi, an insurance agent from Brooklyn, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to scamming 21 elderly consumers out of more than $4.5 million in savings.
Simoneachi preyed upon Italian ...
Capitol One Accuses Former Employees of Insider Trading
Capitol One has accused former employees Bonan Huang and Nan Huang (no relation) of using company databases to engage in insider trading.
The cases allege that the two partook in possibly thousands ...
Penn. Lifetime Ban from Nursing Home Work Ruled Unconstitutional
In a recent decision by the Pennsylvania State Court, people who have been convicted of misdemeanors and felonies in the past are no longer banned from working in nursing homes.
The ...
GAO Calls Out Medicare and Medicaid, Requests Data and Oversight
In a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), studies show that data collection and regulation regarding nursing homes is below acceptable levels. The report suggests ...
SEC Slaps Conn. Investment Firm With Fraud Charges For Undisclosed Conflict of Interest
Atlantic Asset Management (AAM), an investment-based advisory firm, is accused of investing some clients in bonds that benefited a broker-dealer connected with the firm. The U.S. Securities ...
Illinois to Allow Monitoring Devices in Nursing Homes
In 2016, Illinois nursing homes will begin allowing families of nursing home residents to install video and audio recording devices in their loved ones’ rooms. These will hopefully ...
Idaho Sued Over Decision to Cut Medicaid Funding for Patients with Disabilities
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare recently announced a decision to cut Medicaid funding to patients with disabilities by up to 50 percent. In response, several providers and ...
FBI Investigates Home Healthcare Owner in $450,000 Kickback Scheme
Jacqueline Tuanqui, owner of Hexagram Home Health Care, LLC, is being charged for her alleged involvement in a kickback scheme.
Tuanqui supposedly paid to have an outside party refer ...
Nursing Homes Must Notify Public of Closings, New Mass. Rules Say
The Public Health Council in Massachusetts has recently accepted a new set of guidelines that will require all nursing homes in the state to notify the public about changes in status. ...
Signs That an OMP Data Breach Letter is Legitimate
Over 20 million Americans are currently receiving notice that their identities and information may have been leaked in one of the largest government data breaches in history. However, ...


