False Claims Act Update & Alert
	Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. | WWW.TAF.ORG           December 30, 2008
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		Subscribe to this FREE Newsletter Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz n TAF Home Page n Previous Newsletters n Email editor   Please take a moment to forward this FREE electronic newsletter to others that might be interested!	New York Invests to Recover State investigators recovered $551 million from Medicaid fraud in 2008, double the goal set for the state, and more than all other states recovered in 2007.  The secret?  Putting in a smart and hard working Medicaid Inspector General (James G. Sheehan) and giving him a staff of 575 and a budget of over $100 million. >> To read more
			Yale to Pay $7.6 Million Yale University will pay $7.6 million to settle charges it misused funds from about 30 federal agencies between 2000 and 2006.  Most of the money was for time-padding or charging unallowed expenses. >> To read more
			Alabama Sues CMS Alabama Attorney General Troy King says Medicaid won't comply with his FOIA request for records pertaining to recent policy changes which are the subject of a lawsuit filed by Alabama against CMS alleging the agency is trying to grab portions of settlements and awards that haven't even been collected. >> To read more
			Kickbacks for Iraq Contracts Spartan Motors has agreed to pay $6 million in fines and penalties to settle charges it paid kickbacks to an employee of Force Protection of Ladson, S.C., to receive a subcontract to make chassis for  Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles for the U.S. Army. >>  To read more
			Decertifying Fraudsters Medicare has ended the ability of more than 1,130 suppliers in the Los Angeles and Miami areas to bill for such medical equipment as wheelchairs and bottled oxygen.  The DME suppliers failed to reapply and post a $50,000 surety bond. >>  To read more
			Ohio is Broke and Asleep Ohio is facing a record budget deficit, is spending over $13 billion a year on Medicaid, and STILL does not have a state False Claims Act. And apparently a state False Claims Act is not on the agenda of either the state auditor or the state Medicaid director which are at odds with each other as hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars swirl down the drain to the fraudsters.