New data on Medicare payments released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Details of how $77 billion in federal health-care funds were spent in 2012, it showed a wide range in which some top earners were paid as much as 100 times the average for their...
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Fanny pack mixup unravels massive Medicare fraud scheme in Key Biscayne
The Federal government continues to focus on Medicare fraud in South Florida. Here's the latest Medicare fraud coverage from the Miami Herald: The fraud scheme began to unravel last fall, with the discovery of a misdirected stack of bogus prescriptions — and a...
Jurors Acquit Ex-Miami Beach Cop of Drunken ATV Joyride, Convict of Reckless Driving
Former Miami Beach Police Officer, Derick Kuilan was convicted of reckless driving while on duty after running over two beach goers. Although he had also been accused of being drunk at the time, jurors acquitted him of DUI. Nonetheless, he could be sentenced up to 5...
Sneak and Peek Surveillance Warrant Results in Massage Parlor Charges
Boca Raton police managed to convince a Palm Beach County Judge to grant a warrant authorizing them to sneak into a massage parlor after hours and install hidden video recording devices. Yes, unfortunately this incredibly intrusive law enforcement conduct is actually...
Florida Supreme Court disbars former Broward Judge Ana Gardiner
The Florida Supreme Court has finally disbarred former Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner. Gardiner’s conduct deserves nothing less. During a death penalty trial she was presiding over, she and the prosecutor engaged in a secret and improper “personal and emotional...
Broward judge arrested on DUI charge in courthouse parking lot
The Broward County Criminal court is a “buzz” with talk of the arrest of a third criminal division judge for suspected DUI. read more here : http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-judge-rosenthal-arrest-20140527,0,6720466.story
Four-day crackdown targeted prostitution and human trafficking
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is doing his best to become the Nation’s biggest self-promoter in the law enforcement. With his latest waste of taxpayer dollars, he’s decided to charge 97 people arrested in a series of “undercover” (pun-intended), sex transactions...
Boynton cops Abuse Handcuffed Child
Once again, South Florida police officers were caught on video physically abusing hand-cuffed “suspects”. This time, though, the “suspects” were two children who had been thrown off their school bus for not listening to their bus driver. Their absolutely pathetic...
New arrest,Cuban Medicare money laundering
Any federal criminal lawyer in Miami can tell you that millions of dollars derived from illegal Medicare fraud winds up in Cuba. Given the sheer volume of ex-patriot Cubans living in South Florida that become involved in Medicare fraud, it just seems inevitable that...
High-tech thieves siphoning diesel fuel from South Florida gas stations
It’s the criminal ingenuity of our locals that makes Miami such a great place to be a criminal defense lawyer. read more here: http://m.miamiherald.com/?cu=spreed%3A%2F16910329%2F34447632
