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During a question-and-answer session following his opening
remarks at the Federal Bar Association Qui Tam Conference earlier
this year, Senator Chuck Grassley said that the government needed
to come down with a sledgehammer, not a toothpick
against fraud.
1 Senator Grassley, a co-sponsor of the
1986 Amendments to the federal False Claims Act (FCA or the Act)
and a longtime proponent of the Act and its qui tam provision, also
weighed in on some timely and controversial aspects of FCA
litigation, including the ability of the Department of Justice
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A Michigan woman is the first in the nation to be charged criminally with misappropriating money from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Feb. 11.
[1] Amina Abbas of Taylor previously owned 1 on 1 Home Health, which she shuttered in early 2020 after Medicare hit her with a $1.620 million overpayment demand because the home health agency had billed Medicare for patients who didn’t qualify for home health care, DOJ alleged. “According to the indictment, 1 on 1, which was never operational during the pandemic, received approximately $37,656.95 designated for the medical treatment and care of COVID-19 patients,” and Abbas gave the money to her family members for personal use, DOJ alleged. She was charged with embezzlement of government property in the Eastern District of Michigan. In an unrelated case, a California ambulatory surgery center recently entered into a civil monetary penalty settlement