Skilled Nursing Facilities Controlled By Longwood Management Corporation To Pay $16.7 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations.

DOJ

Longwood Management Corporation and 27 affiliated skilled nursing facilities (Longwood) have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary, the Department of Justice announced today.

The settlement partially resolves allegations brought in two lawsuits filed by whistleblowers under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, which allows private parties to bring suit on behalf of the government and to share in any recovery.  The whistleblowers, Judy Boyce, Benjamin Monsod, and Keith Pennetti will collectively receive $3,006,000 of the settlement proceeds. read more »

Why some people risk everything to be whistleblowers

BBC

Some people are able to challenge bullying, bad behaviour and corruption, even at personal risk. Where does this strength come from, and can anyone learn to do it? read more »

‘I Can’t Keep Doing This:’ Small-Business Owners Are Giving Up

NEW YORK TIMES

Small businesses account for 44 percent of all U.S. economic activity, according to the S.B.A., and closures on such an immense scale could devastate the country’s economic growth. If they were grouped together, small businesses would be among the country’s biggest employers, said Satyam Khanna, a resident fellow at the Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance at New York University School of Law. read more »

These Are the Deutsche Bank Executives Responsible for Serving Jeffrey Epstein

NEW YORK TIMES

Deutsche Bank executives approved Mr. Epstein as a client in 2013 and then kept working with him, even though employees worried about the fact that “40 underage girls had come forward with testimony of Epstein sexually assaulting them,” as the bank put it in internal communications about Mr. Epstein in early 2015.

Deutsche Bank itself is a corporation, and, as has often been said, it’s people, not corporations, who do bad things. Responsibility for working with Mr. Epstein permeated the ranks of the private-banking division that caters to wealthy clients. read more »