While some Connecticut residents are blaming the Anthem breach after becoming victims of tax refund fraud (a causal claim that Anthem denies) and some faculty at North Dakota State University wonder if the university’s breach last year is the cause of the tax refund fraud they’re experiencing (a causal claim that NDSU denies), some physicians and dentists…
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NV Attorney General Laxalt Announces Sentencing of a Second Behavioral Health Provider for Medicaid Fraud
Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt announced that Tanya Lagae Troup, 43, of Las Vegas, was sentenced this week for submitting false Medicaid claims for behavioral health services that were not provided. Troup entered a guilty plea to one count of intentional failure to maintain adequate records, a gross misdemeanor. The fraud was committed between…
Two Plead Guilty in Florida Tax Refund Fraud Scheme Using Stolen Patient Information
Jermaine Winters, 39, of Coleman, Florida, and Rosetta Presley, 23, of Chipley, Florida, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft in connection with the electronic filing of false federal income tax returns. During their pleas, Winters and Presley admitted that between July 2011 and July 2012, they conspired…
Indictment charges Flordia eye doc with misdiagnosing and operating on patients needlessly to support Medicare fraud
Here’s yet another case where patients’ records were allegedly purposefully corrupted to support a fraud scheme – resulting in patients allegedly getting serious surgeries and injections they didn’t need, and putting them at risk for future improper treatment should those records be used by others. Salomon E. Melgen, 60, is an ophthalmologist and retina specialist licensed to…
Tax refund fraud victims blame Anthem breach, but attribution is difficult with so many breaches
Luther Turmelle reports: A spike in the number of fraudulent state income tax returns filed in Connecticut has led some Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield customers to believe that it is the result of the massive data breach the insurer revealed in early February. Officials with state Attorney General George Jepsen’s office acknowledge they…
Former member of SwaggSec sentenced to 3 years in prison for attacks on DirecTV, Farmers Insurance, and L.A. Dept. of Public Works
Nancy Dillon reports that a 32-year old hacker who used the online names of “fame” and “infam0us” and was part of SwaggSec has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in attacking DirecTV, Farmers Insurance and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works: Mario Patrick Chuisano was sentenced in U.S. District Court in…