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"kickback" Definitions
  1. money paid illegally to somebody in return for work or help

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The two men and their conspirators concealed the kickback scheme from Chevron by submitting false invoices, filing false tax returns, and receiving kickback funds in cash, according to the indictment.
If it was not, its fee looks like a kickback.
The Car Wash scandal was a kickback scheme on steroids.
After he lost, the specific kickback was on that civility pitch.
That's not to say allegations about the Corker Kickback are warranted.
"I don't know of anyone being offered a kickback," he said.
Kickback. And then autonomous trucking, which we're not working with anyone yet.
Federal prosecutors in Maryland were investigating Agnew in a kickback conspiracy case.
This could include revisiting anti-kickback statutes that currently allow the practice.
Pearlman has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to violate anti-kickback laws.
Reuters later reported that the company paying the kickback was Purdue Pharma.
The arrangement allows the dialysis companies to avoid violating anti-kickback laws.
Kuczynski, a former investment banker, has denied any involvement in Odebrecht's kickback schemes.
T-Mobile introduces KickBack: it'll pay you back for data you don't use.
No, that requires, according to the Supreme Court a bribe or a kickback.
The "Cornhusker Kickback" would have secured full federal financing for Nebraska's Medicaid expansion.
Pearlman has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute.
The way Microsoft forced VMware to the negotiating table had a kickback effect.
Here we see money being counted out in the "kickback room" at Bay Medical.
Low pay is also the root of a widespread kickback culture in Chinese hospitals.
Corbitt sent kickback payments to Potts through a Cayman Islands bank account, authorities said.
He pushed back on the contention he is receiving a kickback by voting "yes".
The first kickback payment recorded by the FBI through its informant was dated Nov.
The deal, known as the "cornhusker kickback," was used to win over then-Sen.
As far as i know, she doesn't get a kickback [from the completion process practitioners].
Yes, health care companies can pay for patients' rides under certain federal anti-kickback exceptions.
Congress passed a strengthened anti-kickback law in 2018 as part of broader opioid legislation.
"These cases go beyond simple scheming and the occasional kickback," he wrote in an email exchange.
Uranium One giving up 20 percent of our uranium, all the money kickback to the dossier.
These songs will set the mood for a chill kickback or a full-out backyard bash.
The charges against them include violating the federal anti-kickback law and conspiracy to commit fraud.
"There's a lot of kickback from coaches because it requires a change in tradition," Casa said.
It cleans quickly, and even has a satisfying kickback to it when you pull the trigger.
A kickback scheme that occurred during the project led to fraud charges against two SAIC employees.
Further, exemptions from Stark laws and other anti-kickback laws have further solidified the status quo.
She's the latest big name in Latin American politics to be implicated in a kickback scandal.
Not only that, but the rush to pass it — without the months of hearings that accompany most complex legislation (yes, including Obamacare) — means that it's likely full of surprises, like the so-called Corker Kickback, even if it was only a handout instead of a kickback.
He walks through a room: is that a nightclub, a sex club, or a mob-run kickback?
The Justice Department said the kickback scheme worked, as many attendees began prescribing Salix products more often.
Protection rackets for illegal activity, kickback schemes, and the always reliable briefcase-full-of-cash bribe. 2.
Sixty-four percent of the participants that donated more to Romney in the kickback scenario were Democrats.
He has aggressively pursued a massive investigation into a kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
Once the fund grows to $100 million, the cash-kickback will be capped and shared with buyers.
He clearly felt not the slightest embarrassment at proposing a kickback likely larger than his annual salary.
Take Santa Ana, California—they get 18 percent of its hauler's annual revenue in an annual kickback.
An unnamed UAW official then demanded a $250,000 kickback from the vendor for the watches, prosecutors charged.
He described a practice of giving discounts intended for government institutions to private wholesalers as a kickback.
It was a quid pro quo or, as the Department of Justice later called it, a kickback.
It's just one of many kickback-type situations swirling around Trump and others involved in his campaign.
Maybe, he said, he could reinterpret federal anti-kickback law to eliminate its protection for these rebates.
Most photographers shy from using the word "kickback," calling the payments rebates, profit-sharing or fund-raising.
"Sadly, I have had a huge kickback from the RAF regarding going public," wrote another CAA official.
The kickback accusations are the subject of a separate, criminal case along with the sexual harassment charges.
The company called it a "speaker program," but prosecutors now call it something else: a kickback scheme.
It's illegal, however, for doctors to prescribe the drug in exchange for kickback payments from a manufacturer.
Nelson was offered special funding for Nebraska Medicaid recipients in what became known as the Cornhusker Kickback.
CNBC first reported about these alleged kickback schemes and educational programs, known as speaker fees, in November 2015.
In March, 13 principals were charged with bribery in an alleged kickback scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
In fact, I felt so good about my hair that I had a small kickback at my place.
Looks like Sheldon Adelson, who's company sands got a $2628 million kickback is now in for $28503 million.
Nikolai and Pavel Ustimenko were named in a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme at the United Nations in 2007.
"The force of the landing and taking off and the kickback is the dangerous part," Mr. Clowdus said.
Typically, I don't mind a bit of kickback — I find it usually means the shadows are more blendable.
Prosecutors in New York described a multimillion-dollar fraud and kickback scheme involving the mail-order pharmacy Philidor.
Mr. Mangano was not the only one charged in what prosecutors described as a bribery and kickback scheme.
But the organization receives a kickback through Amazon's affiliate program if you purchase a filter through its website.
Rents were jacked up on hundreds of New York City apartments in a kickback scheme, a lawsuit contends.
Mr. Drumheller, the suit said, worked to conceal the kickback portion of the scheme from Newcastle Realty Services.
The winner appeared to benefit from a speed-favoring surface, and he avoided kickback by taking immediate command.
Solomon and Vranas have also been charged with crimes in the kickback case and their cases are pending.
Mr. Correa was found to have operated a kickback scheme for obtaining public contracts during Spain's boom years.
Some cryptocurrency enthusiasts and investors have attributed the sell-off to kickback from Securities and Exchange Commission activity.
Given the kickback from Facebook, Sorrell had some advice for Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on how to stay relevant.
In March, federal prosecutors charged 13 current or former Detroit school officials with bribery in an alleged kickback scheme.
Flatiron doesn't get a government kickback or tax break as far as Enbar is aware of for the program.
McConnell even crafted a special "Kodiak Kickback" scheme to give Murkowski's state alone billions of dollars for health care.
That year, several high-ranking politicians from the Lula administration faced trial for their role in the kickback schemes.
But Modric also faces perjury charges at home related to an alleged kickback scheme involving a powerful soccer executive.
Instead, she later found out, he worked with facilities that had promised him a kickback for sending them patients.
Campbell's company had been hired by Tenex, and he provided the FBI with evidence of a kickback extortion scheme.
These people reportedly targeted regular people and essentially made a bargain with them: A winning ticket, for a kickback.
The scandal upended politics in Brazil, where every large party was implicated in illegal campaign finance and kickback schemes.
When I attended the Future Is Female event this past July, it felt more like a community gathering/kickback.
It was quite a sight to see, especially with the memory of the gun's intense kickback fresh in my mind.
In graphic design, as in fashion, style is cyclical and tastes are often a kickback against what came just before.
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo is among eight people accused of being part of the company's kickback schemes in Peru.
To buck that — especially with Hillary Clinton, who I thought was awful — I knew we were going to get kickback.
They don't require contractors to report potential kickback schemes, and they don't have to meet certain labor and safety standards.
Odebrecht is at the center of a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback probe related to Petrobras construction projects.
For accounting purposes, Mr. Rechnitz disguised the kickback as a $60,473 payment for a block of New York Knicks tickets.
They would move stocks, options and other securities, according to the SEC, sometimes giving a kickback to the original hackers.
Olympus said its United States unit would pay $623.2 million plus interest to end a kickback case in New Jersey.
Federal prosecutors in Connecticut have also charged a former Insys district manager, Jeffery Pearlman, for engaging in a kickback scheme.
Some financial planners are paid kickback commissions when they sell specific products or funnel your funds into specific mutual funds.
The kickback scandals in which Mr. García had been implicated have touched off a surge of arrests throughout the region.
The complaint does not suggest that anyone in the Trump Organization was involved in, or aware of, the kickback scheme.
The person who arranged it got a kickback from the Swiss for paying a lot of money for old machinery.
Finally, signs of a revival in Detroit, above, a pharmaceutical company's kickback scheme and the first female American fighter pilots.
"When I presented it to the community, we didn't have any problems, we didn't have any kickback," Pastor Moore said.
The government has been considering removing the safe harbor protection for rebates from the anti-kickback law since last year.
More than 100 people, including Odebrecht former head Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht, have been sentenced on corruption charges linked to kickback schemes.
A former vice-governor of the region has been charged with taking a $351,000 kickback to award the stadium's lighting contract.
Under current federal regulations, discounts offered to consumers on Medicare and other federal government plans aren't allowed, due anti-kickback statutes.
There was Charles Forbes' Veterans Bureau affair, a kickback scheme that set the tone for the bureau for decades to come.
But this isn't going to be—every single deal we heard about it getting through, "the Cornhusker Kickback," this and that.
Its access to capital markets has been sharply reduced since late 2014 by a price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal.
Investigators found that Petrobras contracts routinely included a flat kickback rate and that money from bribes got steered to political parties.
He helped the FBI put several Russian and U.S. executives in prison for a bribery, kickback, money laundering and extortion scheme.
When asked about her part in getting the senator to flip, Trump said it had nothing to do with a kickback.
Current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was Toledo's finance minister and prime minister and has denied any involvement in Odebrecht's kickback schemes.
Lula, as he is popularly known, is one of a number of prominent Brazilian politicians engulfed in a massive kickback scandal.
In June 2015, a nurse practitioner at a pain and headache center in Connecticut plead guilty to federal anti-kickback charges.
Petrobras has been at the center of Brazil's largest ever corruption scandal amid investigations into a political kickback scheme involving contractors.
Insys previously admitted to the kickback scheme and agreed to pay $225 million, then filed for bankruptcy shortly after, NPR reported.
In June, he was indicted by a New Jersey grand jury for accepting $250,000 in bribes in a health care kickback scheme.
Tracks range from current pop-tinged bops ("Drew Barrymore"), to hazy and lazy kickback anthems (the Kendrick-featuring "Doves in the Wind").
However, Cifuentes, who had told US authorities in a previous interview about the alleged kickback, said in court Tuesday he didn't remember.
With global bond yields at all-time lows, dividend stocks have been the alternative for investors searching for any kind of kickback.
Similar kickback ensued when, just recently, the Kardashian family came under fire for posing semi-nude together for their Calvin Klein campaign.
Several states have sued the company or former executives over claims they orchestrated a kickback scheme of bribing doctors to prescribe Subsys.
Odebrecht was arrested 24 days later as police deepened an investigation on a massive kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
But the longtime businessman knew that punishments meted out for small transgressions — the occasional bribe, payoff, or kickback — were mild in Cuba.
Endorsing Trump at a moment when Trump still needs endorsements might net you a job, a kickback, a call of appreciation, something.
The Kodiak Kickback is responsive to a very real problem for Murkowski's constituents in Alaska: extraordinarily high premium rates in the state.
This also strengthens negotiating leverage and allows providers to circumvent anti-kickback laws by simply placing patient referring doctors on the payroll.
In exchange, they say, he received a $60,000 kickback delivered in a bag from Ferragamo, one of his favorite luxury goods stores.
But the Supreme Court limited that type of prosecution to only those involving a bribe or kickback in 2010 in Skilling v.
Apple, for example, assigns the taxes from its California sales to its headquarters city, Cupertino, in exchange for a 35 percent kickback.
Even as health care providers complain about the broad reach of the anti-kickback statute, the Justice Department is aggressively pursuing violations.
Acting for personal financial gain — such as withholding foreign aid unless you receive a million-dollar kickback — is clearly corrupt, argued Dershowitz.
On Wednesday the head of New York City's prison guard union and a hedge fund financier were charged with operating a kickback scheme.
The cases involved an array of charges, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, money laundering and violations of an anti-kickback law.
A continuing investigation into an alleged kickback scheme at Petrobras has triggered concerns about banks with exposure to companies involved in the scandal.
The agency has in the past taken the position that free drug programs, when not properly structured, can violate an anti-kickback statute.
The previous engineering firm, Mendes Junior, abandoned the project when it was implicated in a massive bribery and political kickback scandal in 2014.
Central to the probe was whether Lawal was involved in a suspected kickback scheme to divert aid money intended for the volatile northeast.
A price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal that exploded in late 2014 has reduced Petrobras' ability to raise capital in financial markets.
N brought the case against the regulator after the CFPB sued the company on allegations it was involved in an illegal kickback scheme.
In Brazil, the far-reaching kickback investigation focusing on Odebrecht has led to prison terms for more than 130 politicians and corporate executives.
Prosecutors accused Seabrook of accepting a $60,000 kickback from Huberfeld in exchange for steering $20 million of union money to invest with Platinum.
Hundreds of millions of dollars went missing in what U.S. authorities have alleged was an elaborate front for a bribery and kickback scheme.
Though the details are redacted, he seemed to be suggesting there was a kickback "scheme" of some kind involved, potentially involving Manafort himself.
Mr. Rechnitz testified that he delivered the kickback one December night in 2014, stuffing thousands of dollars in cash into the Ferragamo bag.
" A few lawmakers have also warned federal officials that asking for fees in return for allocating the deduction might amount to a "kickback.
Figuring out whether the $9.7 million constituted a kickback to Mr. Tanner is the prerequisite to proving that he committed honest services fraud.
Liberals quickly labeled the provision the "Corker kickback" on social media and suggested the provision was inserted specifically to win the senator's vote.
Liberals quickly labeled the provision the "Corker kickback" on social media and suggested the provision was inserted specifically to win the senator's vote.
In 21625, a judge sentenced the Alabama OPO's leadership to federal prison for a multimillion dollar kickback scheme with a local funeral home.
Earlier in July Malawi's main opposition party called for Mutharika's resignation over allegations that he received a kickback from a $4 million government contract.
McQuade said Tuesday that if there is a message to be taken from the kickback case, she hopes it will be one of accountability.
Previously, three Cabinet ministers stepped down over graft allegations related to a sprawling bribery and kickback scandal at state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro.
The fees also violate the state's Unfair Competition Law, the suit maintains, because they amount to an illegal "kickback" from production companies to agencies.
Federal prosecutors say they believe Lula accepted illicit payments and favors connected to the giant kickback scandal around Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the oil company.
In this case, the caller and the phone network had a kickback agreement to share that fee while placing as many calls as possible.
Dilma and her supporters labeled it a "coup" orchestrated by Temer and his allies in an attempt to halt a sweeping political kickback investigation.
More than 100 people, including Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht and Pinheiro, have been sentenced on corruption charges linked to kickback schemes, racketeering and money-laundering.
The insurer said American Renal Associates "earmarked donations" to the kidney fund to pay for the coverage, violating anti-kickback laws in the process.
The complex, multi-stranded trial has already seen prison sentences handed down to three businessmen in February for their roles in a kickback scheme.
The anti-kickback law makes it illegal to pay an incentive for drugs or services that Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare programs cover.
Over all, it is the largest total amount paid by a medical device company for violations involving the anti-kickback statute, federal officials said.
Janot first opened investigations of seated politicians implicated in the kickback scandal in March 2015, but only five have been indicted and none convicted.
But that does not necessarily mean that the Philidor relationship was improper, or that the $9.7 million Mr. Tanner received constituted an illegal kickback.
Mr. Seabrook had steered $20 million from the union into a risky hedge fund in exchange for a promised kickback worth more than $100,000.
David instantly thought of kickback laws in construction, which have made people in construction "touchy" about any program that gives something back to them.
An anti-kickback law makes it illegal to pay an incentive for drugs or services that Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare programs cover.
His opponent is current Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim, who served seven years in jail (between mayoral terms) for his part in a kickback scandal.
Investigators were apparently trying to determine whether the payment, made in 2017, constituted a kickback to Mr. Manafort from associates who ran the PAC.
There was the Cornhusker Kickback -- a special carveout for the federal government to pay additional Medicaid costs in Nebraska meant to woo then-Nebraska Sen.
Odebrecht is at the heart of a Brazilian bribery and kickback probe, known as Lava Jato or Car Wash, that has reverberated across Latin America.
He told them not to record songs the label brought them when they were crap — because the A&R guy was probably getting a kickback.
But the more things move digital, there will always be kickback: physical record sales are increasing each year along with physical children's picture book sales.
In the episode, Zoey sees Doug (Diggy Simmons), new-ish boyfriend of Jazz (Chloe Bailey) at a "co-ed kickback" where Jazz is not present.
He did it because he was expecting to get a secret $10 million kickback, and as the complaint alleges, he concealed this criminal self-dealing.
For the past two years an investigation into a long-running and massive political kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras has transfixed Brazil.
Lula remains free while he appeals the ruling, but faces four more corruption trials as prosecutors allege he oversaw a wider kickback scheme, per Reuters.
Speaking at a news conference in Curitiba, he estimated Petrobras lost roughly 6 billion reais due to a kickback scheme involving major politicians and executives.
The proposed impeachment is also taking place as Brazil faces its largest corruption investigation, targeting a sprawling kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
Now it seems the scandal that led to Mr Pérez's downfall—a kickback scheme at the customs agency—was just the tip of the iceberg.
The firm is at the heart of a bribery and kickback probe, known as Lava Jato or Car Wash, that has reverberated across Latin America.
The federal anti-kickback and Stark laws were meant to prevent bribery of patients and doctors and do not apply to private commercial insurance plans.
Since 2015, it has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and fines following kickback allegations in South Korea, the United States and China.
Lula is being investigated within the massive Lava Jato, or Car Wash, judicial inquiry into kickback schemes associated with the state-run oil company Petrobras.
Ritter was impeached on a variety of charges, including an allegation that he took a kickback to appoint a former partner as a bankruptcy receiver.
But investigative records show FBI counterintelligence recorded the first illicit payments in the bribery/kickback scheme in November 2009, a year before the CFIUS approval.
The five doctors were arrested on Friday morning and face charges including that they violated the federal anti-kickback law and conspired to commit fraud.
Its relationship with the pharmacy Philidor ultimately led to the CEO of the pharmacy and a Valeant employee being found guilty in a kickback scheme. 
Since 2015, Novartis has paid out hundreds of millions in settlements and fines as a result of kickback allegations inSouth Korea, the United States and China.
The impeachment process is unfolding as investigators pursue a separate, long-running probe into a vast kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA).
And holders of an Amazon card would be more likely to order additional paper towel rolls from its site if it meant they'd receive a kickback.
A corruption investigation into a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme at the state-run oil company Petrobras has embroiled dozens of the country's leading businessmen and politicians.
Petrobras was at the center of a kickback scheme that caused an estimated 42 billion reais in losses to shareholders and taxpayers, according to federal prosecutors.
That official, Fabiano Silveira, stepped down in May when leaked recordings suggested he had tried to derail a kickback probe around state-run energy company Petrobras.
French drug company Sanofi SA has won dismissal of a securities class action lawsuit accusing it of promoting its diabetes drugs through an illegal kickback scheme.
Additional reporting by A.J. Vielma and Jim Forkin Valeant kickback scheme complaint Correction: This story was revised to correct the spelling of Gary Tanner's first name.
The big picture: The proposal would bar pharmacy benefit managers and insurers from accepting rebates from drug companies in Medicare and Medicaid under anti-kickback law.
They eventually unveil a kickback scheme involving politicians, construction companies and Brazil's state-run oil company called Petrobras in real life and Petrobrasil in the series.
Grana has previously denied knowing about Odebrecht's kickback schemes in Peru and has said an independent company would conduct an internal probe into dealings with Odebrecht.
He is charged with corruption and money laundering in the kickback scandal involving Petrobras, and he also faces an ethics inquiry over undeclared Swiss bank accounts.
Clinton's kickback: "It's high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves" she tweeted, linking to the story.
DETROIT (Reuters) - Federal officials on Tuesday charged 13 current and former Detroit Public School (DPS) principals with engaging in a long-running kickback and bribery scheme.
After that meeting, Mr. Rechnitz introduced Mr. Seabrook to a hedge fund financier named Murray Huberfeld, and helped arrange for the kickback, according to federal investigators.
Then there is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the former president, whose hotel and real estate businesses are being investigated for alleged involvement in a kickback scheme.
They're calling a last minute perk for real estate the "Corker Kickback," referring to Senator Bob Corker who recently changed his no vote to a yes.
The same answer applies: It depends if your state has anti-kickback laws, but also some states give special privacy protections to HIV tests, Cohen says.
Unlike the typical kickback, he can argue that his share of the deal was a means to bring both sides together in a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Hospitals would be allowed to offer health care providers free meals, laundry or child care services — things that are typically barred under an anti-kickback law.
Last week, Spain's national court sentenced more than two dozen business people and politicians — including the party's former treasurer — on charges of operating a kickback scheme.
Just in São Paulo, reports of a kickback scheme by cardiologists are rattling the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, one of the country's most respected medical institutions.
Authorities said the witness helped orchestrate a fraud scheme in which Huberfeld promised to return half of Platinum's 20 percent commission to Seabrook as a kickback.
Nilesh Jobalia, 54, pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court in Cincinnati to unlawfully distributing a controlled substance, healthcare fraud and violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.
These probes come within a broader judicial crusade against corruption that is centered on a massive kickback scheme emanating from the state-run oil company Petrobras.
In their enchanting Scottish accents, the guides reminded us to hold the gun tightly — when you loosen up, that's when you'll really get hit by the kickback.
Shy and 13 current and former Detroit principals were charged in late March with engaging in the bribery and kickback scheme lasting from 2002 to January 2015.
Ahn, a former software tycoon, co-founded the opposition People's Party early this year but resigned in June for the party's alleged involvement in a kickback scandal.
Late last year, former executives of Valeant and mail-order pharmacy Philidor were charged with running a fraud-and-kickback scheme that bilked Valeant out of millions.
Petrobras, Shell's principal partner in the country, is in serious financial and legal difficulty after the price drop and the massive price-fixing, bribery and kickback scandal.
A former MetroHealth System executive and three dentists have been convicted on charges they engaged in an elaborate bribe-and-kickback scheme that defrauded the Ohio hospital.
So far, 39 people and two corporations have been charged in bribery and kickback schemes that the United States has said date back more than two decades.
Congress should clarify that value-based payment approaches that may help reduce overall health-care costs will not inadvertently trigger government price reporting or anti-kickback provisions.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors charged the former CEO of specialty pharmacy firm Philidor Rx and a former Valeant Pharmaceuticals executive in a multimillion-dollar fraud and kickback scheme.
The world's largest trading firms, including Vitol SA and Glencore PLC, are currently under investigation by U.S. and Brazilian authorities for a massive kickback scheme involving Petrobras.
He is accused by the anti-corruption commission, the KPK, of playing a pivotal part in a huge kickback scheme—the biggest scandal it has ever investigated.
Lula, who has denied any wrongdoing, was convicted of accepting bribes and has been accused in other ongoing cases of orchestrating a kickback scheme while in office.
A sweeping corruption investigation into a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme at the state-run oil company Petrobras has embroiled dozens of the country's leading businessmen and politicians.
TO executive and the former chief of mail order pharmacy Philidor Rx Services were found guilty on Tuesday of defrauding Valeant through a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme.
Her 19-part series starting in 1902 revealed Standard's secret contracts, kickback schemes, Rockefeller's "unholy alliance" between oil refiners and producers, and the extent of its monopoly.
LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's main opposition party on Monday called for President Peter Mutharika to resign over allegations he received a kickback from a $4 million government contract.
Apparently unchastened by their brush with scandal, Workers' Party officials were secretly engaged in a huge kickback scheme with executives at Petrobras, the state-owned energy giant.
In November, he announced charges against two defendants in connection with what he called a multimillion-dollar fraud and kickback scheme at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc VRX.
The federal anti-kickback statute is very specific in dealing with discounting of pricing, which is essentially the establishment of a secondary pricing for various patient types.
It would change federal anti-kickback statutes to prevent drug manufacturers from offering rebates and discounts to PBMs, Part D insurance plans, and Medicaid managed care organizations.
The anti-kickback statute, they said, makes it illegal to offer remuneration in exchange for health-care services or products reimbursable by a federal health-care program.
Meanwhile, Brazilians are grappling with a major corruption scandal over a kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras, and hard times after a decade of prosperity.
Since 2015, Novartis has paid out hundreds of millions in settlements and fines as a result of kickback allegations in South Korea, the United States and China.
Former employees and tenants told The Times that the Baumblits were paid an illegal kickback for every visit, an allegation backed up by the attorney general's investigation.
Since then, more high-ranking soccer officials have been indicted in a sweeping U.S. investigation alleging kickback and bribery schemes related to the marketing of the sport.
The kickback scheme was devised in 2013 in a hotel in the Dominican Republic with an influential New York real estate developer, Jona Rechnitz, federal investigators said.
Many other lawmakers are under scrutiny in a series of sprawling investigations into kickback schemes at Brazil's state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, and a construction giant, Odebrecht.
A former official with the union's GM department, Jeff Pietrzyk, also is expected to plead guilty to charges involving bribery and kickback conspiracy that defrauded union workers.
A federal statute cited in the Skilling case defines a kickback as a benefit given "to improperly obtain or reward favorable treatment in connection with" a transaction.
Working as a confidential witness, the businessman made kickback payments to the Russians with the approval of his FBI handlers and gathered other evidence, the records show.
A senior American official who has spent years working in Iraq confided that the deal may have stalled after Trevi refused an Iraqi demand for a kickback.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, arises from a CFPB enforcement order against mortgage lender PHH for kickback violations under Section 8 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).
The investigative judges presiding over the Diack case accuse the Senegalese of favoring Qatar's bid for the 2017 world championship in return for a kickback, sources have said.
This comes as many of her allies are facing corruption charges in a sweeping investigation into a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme at the state-run oil company Petrobras.
A sweeping corruption investigation into an alleged multimillion-dollar kickback scheme at the state-run oil company Petrobras has embroiled dozens of the country's leading businessmen and politicians.
The biggest change, which it plans to implement later in January, is the introduction of a program called KickBack, which will credit customers for data they don't use.
The decision comes after the Brazilian prosecutor general accused Cunha of trying to interfere with investigations into a massive kickback scheme at the state-run oil company Petrobras.
According to the report, Giardino and Candido received a $28,000 kickback in exchange for awarding the construction of the city's public works building to a politically connected company.
The list is also contracted out to various other mobile ad blocking apps and desktop services, which get a kickback from Eyeo in exchange for allowing the ads.
In October, President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the country's top civil servant, accused of having inflated the value of contracts for aid projects, part of a suspected kickback scheme.
In June, federal prosecutors in Manhattan brought charges against two former Insys employees, Jonathan Roper and Fernando Serrano, for engaging in a similar kickback scheme involving speaker fees.
The plaintiff in this case was PHH, a mortgage company that CFPB fined for $109 million for taking kickback payments for steering borrowers to certain mortgage insurance companies.
But a year later, Reynolds was arrested and found guilty of being involved in a $25 million kickback scheme involving the owner of a pair of chiropractic clinics.
An expanding probe known as Lava Jato that began in 2014 exposed a nexus of bribery and kickback schemes that implicated the country's largest companies and political elites.
Shares of CVS Health and Express Scripts slid last week after Gottlieb suggested the federal government re-examine whether rebates should be re-classified under anti-kickback laws.
Under current laws, Medicare recipients aren't eligible for direct drugmaker coupons because of anti-kickback laws, Gottlieb suggested that rebates should be reclassified to fall under regulatory scrutiny.
And so what if we took on this system directly, by having the federal government reexamine the current safe harbor for drug rebates under the Anti-Kickback Statute?
Homeowners are required to hold property insurance, so whenever that lapsed, servicers automatically enrolled them in an overpriced replacement policy, taking a kickback from the insurer in exchange.
Changing federal kickback law presumably would force health insurers and PBMs to drive for harder bargains instead of running to whichever drug company offered the most appetizing rebate.
Another former Patanjali executive told me similar stories and added that he began receiving threatening phone calls after he refused to facilitate what he saw as kickback schemes.
Because the manufacturers are covering the costs, anti-kickback laws prohibit Medicare beneficiaries and other people insured through government health care programs from these types of negotiated arrangements.
But federal anti-kickback laws prohibit companies from giving such financial assistance to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries because doing so is considered an inducement to buy their drugs.
Kirchner, who governed Argentina from 2007 to 2015, and her late husband and predecessor, Néstor Kirchner, as the leaders of a wide-ranging kickback scheme involving government contracts.
He has been accused of embezzling millions of dollars for a VC fund run by his son by running a kickback scheme through a Nissan distributor in Lebanon.
The Trump administration has said it is examining whether it should consider rebates to be a form of illegal kickback, a change that would likely require congressional action.
In November, the former chief executive of Philidor and a former executive at Valeant were arrested on federal charges of violating anti-kickback laws, which they have denied.
Perhacs, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring to violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, testified at trial against the two Alabama doctors, Xiulu Ruan and John Couch.
Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht is at the heart of a Brazilian bribery and kickback probe, known as Lava Jato or Car Wash, that has reverberated across Latin America.
According to the Democratic account, he claimed that the FBI reneged on a promise to repay him the kickback extortion payments he made while working with the FBI.
The former chief executive of Nebraska pharmaceutical benefits manager Pharmaceutical Technologies Inc has pleaded guilty to making illegal kickback payments in order to obtain business from employee benefit plans.
On the gaming side, you've got complex toy guns with simulated kickback, and two sets of VR gloves: Manus VR, which we've written about before, and the Noitom Hi5.
His recusal left New York State Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten to preside over a second Trump lawsuit that raised essentially the same kickback allegations as the first case.
He loaded up his video descriptions with Amazon links of products he used, where he'd registered as an official affiliate, generating a kickback for him ever with every purchase.
The former chief executive of Indiana nursing home operator American Senior Communities has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from what prosecutors call a $16 million fraud and kickback scheme.
It narrowly defines who would be able to use the benefit — only mothers, and possibly only married mothers at that — and it is largely just a kickback for businesses.
And in June, another company that makes opioids, Insys Therapeutics, filed for bankruptcy just days after reaching a $225 million settlement with the federal government over a kickback scheme.
Former President Alejandro Toledo and the former head of Odebrecht in Peru, Jorge Barata, are among eight people accused of being part of the company's kickback schemes in Peru.
Editorial Last year, Guatemalans watched in awe as their president, Otto Pérez Molina, and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, were charged in a kickback scheme and forced from power.
Of course, without the direct retail feedback loop, it's not really a Dash competitor — and besides, AWS is helping power the thing, so Amazon's still getting a kickback here.
Impoverished residents began functioning as the bottom rungs in kickback chains: Youths would get chump change to burn buildings while landlords made off with insurance money, never to return.
Some run kickback schemes on a local level, using coercion to force business people to give them a piece of the action or compel citizens to use their services.
President Trump, as part of his kickback to the white evangelicals who got him elected, has fashioned this idea of religious supremacy into a cornerstone of his shambolic administration.
United States in 2010 restricted this type of fraud to cases involving payment of a bribe or kickback to the defendant, not just unethical conduct that deceived an employer.
Topics at the conference, which began Sunday, will include health policy in the next presidential administration, basics of Medicare and Medicaid, anti-kickback laws and whistleblower lawsuits, among others.
Since 2009, the FBI had an undercover informant gathering evidence of a massive bribery and kickback scheme inside the Russian nuclear energy firm TENEX and its American arm TENAM.
The impeachment proceedings are focused on Rousseff's alleged manipulation of public accounts and not a sweeping kickback scandal involving state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, commonly known as Petrobras.
The Department of Health and Human Services last month proposed regulations that would scale back protections for rebates that might otherwise be illegal under a federal anti-kickback law.
Folha said the former president of Odebrecht's infrastructure arm, Benedicto Júnior, told prosecutors that he discussed with Neves details of a kickback scheme involving other large builders in Minas Gerais.
But the government alleged the drugmakers used such charities as conduits to improperly pay the copay obligations of Medicare patients using their drugs, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
In response, defense lawyer Richard Westling said he didn't think Manafort's story about the payment changed all that much, and that he doesn't "think" the hypothetical kickback scheme actually occurred.
Monday's charges were the first that specifically tied Calheiros to the massive corruption investigation centered around state-run oil company Petrobras, where a political kickback scheme played out for years.
And, in case you're wondering, Divido makes money by receiving a kickback from retailers for each sale they make when the startup's payment option is invoked and credit is provided.
Leftist senators slammed his appointment as a move to protect Temer's government from the sprawling "Car Wash" kickback investigation that threatens to implicate a large swath of Brazil's political establishment.
Some hospitals have set up barriers to avoid anti-kickback entanglements with device distributors, and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is looking at more specific requirements in congressional recommendations.
In a speech on Thursday, Scott Gottlieb said if the federal anti-kickback law that protects such rebates were changed, it could help increase competition and make drugs more affordable.
That race to passage included marathon efforts to win over holdout Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak's vote and the so-called "Cornhusker Kickback" deal with then-Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska.
His illegal conduct was captured with the help of a confidential witness, an American businessman, who began making kickback payments at Mikerin's direction and with the permission of the FBI.
Like Oil for Food, the multibillion-dollar program intended to feed hungry Iraqi children and used by Saddam Hussein in a kickback scheme involving a rogue's gallery of international enablers.
Medicare beneficiaries, who account for about 40 percent of Repatha prescriptions, are barred from using company coupons because federal anti-kickback laws prohibit their use in government health care programs.
But federal courts have held that the anti-kickback statute can be violated if even one purpose of the remuneration is to induce referrals or generate business for the hospital.
The payment is a result of plea deals struck by prosecutors with politicians and executives accused of participating in a kickback scandal centered on Petrobras, as the company is known.
The company signed a $2 billion leniency deal with U.S., Swiss and Brazilian prosecutors in December for its involvement in a vast bribery and political kickback scheme in 12 countries.
The probe has led to the arrest of several high profile politicians, bankers, and businessmen, accused of involvement in a billion-dollar kickback scheme while the country slipped into recession.
The regional organization settled with a U.S. travel agency, Cartan Tours, that had been overcharging for services as part of a kickback scheme, in order to avoid excessive litigation costs.
The trial follows a long graft investigation known in Spanish as the "Gurtel" case, after the nickname of one of the supposed masterminds of a kickback scheme and businessman Francisco Correa.
" As a persuasion strategy, this can be effective, but she describes receiving "credible kickback" from the left in the past "for having any interaction with somebody who is publicly right-wing.
Gary Tanner, 41, the former Valeant executive, and Andrew Davenport, 50, the former chief executive of Philidor Rx Services LLC, were also ordered to forfeit $173 million, representing the alleged kickback.
A former Credit Suisse banker pleaded guilty last month to a U.S. charge that she helped launder money from a kickback scheme involving the loans to state-owned companies in Mozambique.
However, critics see these practices as a form of kickback, and they're outlawed in Medicare and Medicaid because they induce people to stay on drugs that have seen staggering price increases.
But the government alleged that the drugmakers used such charities as conduits to improperly pay the copay obligations of Medicare patients using their drugs, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Pfizer advertises a Lipitor coupon card for the uninsured and those with commercial insurance — the type of card that is outlawed in Medicare and Medicaid because it's viewed as a kickback.
Odebrecht's chief executive in 10.7 was sentenced to 20173 years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that lined the pockets of politicians in more than a dozen countries.
Odebrecht's chief executive in 83.7.7 was sentenced to 22017 years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that lined the pockets of politicians in more than a dozen countries.
In late 2016, Odebrecht admitted publicly to having orchestrated kickback schemes in a dozen countries and has signed plea deals in Brazil, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Guatemala.
A judge on Monday indicted the country's former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as well as his wife Marisa and seven others on corruption charges in the Petrobras kickback scheme.
Prosecutors have charged 41 people and entities, mostly soccer bosses from throughout the Americas, and identified $200 million in bribes and kickback schemes tied to marketing of major tournaments and matches.
Prosecutors have charged 41 people and entities, mostly soccer bosses from throughout the Americas, and identified $183 million in bribes and kickback schemes tied to marketing of major tournaments and matches.
The lawyer denied that Perhac's employment was a kickback and said Dr. Ruan's relationship with the company were services for a physician who had eight board certifications and was highly qualified.
That affiliate went on to pay millions of dollars in bribe and kickback payments to a high-ranking FIFA official with "enormous influence" to secure the World Cup rights, prosecutors allege.
In December 2010, MFY Legal Services, a nonprofit that has represented three-quarter-house tenants, filed a class-action lawsuit against the Baumblits and their companies over an alleged kickback scheme.
Suspicion of irregularities arose when a whistleblower from within the Gülen network testified before a Virginia school board that her husband would kickback 40 percent of his salary to the movement.
A year ago, FIFA sought to claim back tens of millions of dollars that its own officials had stolen via bribery and kickback schemes—money that U.S. authorities were also seeking.
The impeachment push has gained force from widespread public anger over near-daily revelations of graft in Brazil's biggest-ever corruption investigation involving kickback schemes at state-run oil company Petrobras.
If Mr. Paddock did wind up a net loser, those losses could be offset, in part, by comps, or "kickback rewards," essentially free money casinos give loyal customers to gamble with.
A former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and the onetime head of a small mail-order pharmacy were convicted on Tuesday of using a secret kickback arrangement to defraud the drugmaker.
They arranged for $100 million of the purchase price to be set aside to cover potential liabilities if city governments break off contracts or demand compensation due to alleged kickback schemes.
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber said Thursday that the defining characteristic of a kickback is divided loyalties, meaning the payment received creates a conflict with a duty owed to the plaintiffs.
The scandal revolves around a complex overbilling and political kickback scheme in the state-run oil company Petrobras SA that is threatening to bring down the government of President Dilma Rousseff.
His fortune declined as Brazil's economy entered into a recession in 2014 and federal investigators began exposing a vast web of kickback schemes that crippled several of the country's top companies.
Meanwhile, dozens of business leaders and senior politicians have become snared within the Lava Jato, or "Car Wash," investigation into a kickback scheme centered around the state-run oil company Petrobras.
The kickback from the Eagle made my arm feel like it was going to snap, but I swore that when I got back to Florida I would buy a firearm for myself.
During a hearing on Wednesday in federal court in New Haven, Connecticut, Pearlman, 51, admitted that he conspired to violate an anti-kickback law in an effort to get more prescriptions written.
The settlement also resolved claims that Coppell, Texas-based DaVita Rx violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute by paying unlawful financial inducements to patients covered by federal healthcare programs, the department said.
Brazil is struggling with its worst recession since the 1930s and the country's biggest-ever corruption scandal - a long-running probe into a vast kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
In June 2018, he came under fire after it was revealed in a leaked email that he said Denhollander had received a "kickback" for being the first person to publicly accuse Nassar.
At the time of the sale, Campbell was a confidential source for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a bribery and kickback probe of the head of a U.S. unit of Rosatom.
My gun set to auto, I sprayed forward at the first sight of anything moving, each bullet moving my reticle higher and higher, as I struggled to maintain control of the kickback.
In September, the Justice Department alleged a PSI donor, Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc, violated an anti-kickback law by using PSI to defray co-payments for patients prescribed an expensive cholesterol drug, Juxtapid.
The leader of impeachment in the Senate, Renan Calheiros, is under investigation as part of a sprawling political kickback scandal, as are many who voted in favor of impeachment in both chambers.
With unemployment above 11 percent, and dozens of politicians in her coalition implicated in a kickback scandal at state-led oil company Petrobras, the trial has become a test of Rousseff's support.
A federal judge on Friday ruled that a whistleblower had failed at trial to establish that an Illinois businessman and several healthcare companies he ran had engaged in an illegal kickback scheme.
Along with the 13 principals, Norman Shy, owner of Allstate Sales and an approved DPS school supply vendor, was charged in U.S. District Court in Detroit in connection with the kickback scheme.
The lawsuit said that as a result, Omnicare violated the False Claims Act by submitting kickback-tainted claims to Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled, for reimbursement.
The company agreed to pay Peru an initial $8.9 million in a gesture of goodwill last week as it promised to give prosecutors in the attorney general's office details on kickback schemes.
In a speech on Thursday, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said if the federal anti-kickback law that protects such rebates were changed, it could help increase competition and make drugs more affordable.
But there is no evidence that she abused her power for personal gain, while many of the politicians orchestrating her ouster have been implicated in a huge kickback scheme and other scandals.
The company is also fighting a lawsuit by U.S. prosecutors who allege its sale force ran a decade-long doctor kickback scheme involving sham events that led to overcharging the federal government.
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb last week suggested the federal government re-examine whether the rebates should be re-classified under anti-kickback laws, which has weighed on PBM stocks.
Details of the proposed rule have not yet been made public, but its title on the OMB site refers to removing the safe harbor protection for rebates from the anti-kickback law.
Natalie Levine, who worked at the Arizona-based drugmaker from 2013 to 2014, plead guilty in federal court in Hartford, Connecticut, to conspiring to violate a federal anti-kickback statute, prosecutors said.
Plunging oil prices and a huge kickback scheme at the state oil company Petrobras have depleted the state's accounts so severely that the state's acting governor declared a financial disaster in June.
Stark and anti-kickback laws are a remnant of the fee-for-service world and harm the very patients they are supposed to protect by deterring more comprehensive patient-centered, coordinated care.
Johnson & Johnson control 40 percent of the contact lens industry thanks to a history of offering eye care providers a substantial kickback on every sale of their products, thus encouraging product loyalty.
The couple admitted that they ran a kickback scheme with the Medicaid-funded treatment providers Narco Freedom, the NRI Group and Canarsie Aware, which paid the Baumblits every month for providing clients.
The money was borrowed ostensibly to develop shipyards, maritime security and a tuna fishing venture, but U.S. authorities now say the projects were an elaborate front for a bribe and kickback scheme.
Ms. Hoffmann and the two party figures who rose to the presidency, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Ms. Rousseff, were charged in September in a broad kickback scheme involving state contracts.
Mr. Shechtman also argued that the formula that Mr. Rechnitz laid out in the kickback scheme didn't make mathematical sense, and would not result in a $60,000 pay out to Mr. Seabrook.
But the lawsuit reignites the debate of whether this technically legal practice is a violation of anti-kickback law, and when the federal government will propose another rule to clear the air.
The original indictments and affidavits portrayed Campbell as a "victim" who became a confidential witness after the Russians tried to "extort" him in summer 2900 into a kickback scheme, court records show.
The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was ordered to spend five and half years in prison Thursday for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis.
He said one of the goals would be to interview a former FBI undercover informant who provided information starting in 2009 about a kickback and bribery scheme involving Russian nuclear industry figures.
The evidence showed that he had steered $20 million from the union, the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, into a risky hedge fund, in exchange for a promised kickback worth more than $100,000.
For example, Joyce was paid a total kickback of $20,071 for advising the town manager of Randolph, a small suburban town south of Boston, to hire EBC as the exclusive energy contractor.
Federal health programs including Medicare and Medicaid don't allow pharmaceutical companies to sponsor drug-specific patient assistance programs for the medicines they make because this violates anti-kickback regulations, researchers note in JAMA.
Sudani, now the labor minister, said real change will come only with an overhaul of the tendering system that would eliminate shady companies that strike kickback deals with all levels of ministry employees.
The Swiss drugmaker is fighting a widening lawsuit by U.S. prosecutors who allege its sales force ran a decade-long doctor kickback scheme involving sham events that led to overcharging the federal government.
Lula faces allegations of corruption, money laundering and obstruction of justice related to a sprawling kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras, which prosecutors allege he orchestrated for more than a decade.
Opposition parties are seeking to unseat Rousseff by impeachment in Congress or annulment of her re-election for allegedly using illegal money from the Petrobras bribery and kickback scandal to fund her campaign.
The testimony is expected to implicate upward of 200 powerful politicians and business leaders in the massive graft probe that revealed a vast kickback scheme for contracts with state-run oil company Petrobras.
Palocci, who was chief of staff to Lula's successor, Dilma Rousseff, has offered to provide details about the kickback scheme under investigation that could hurt Lula's chances of running in the 2018 election.
Taking advantage of an unprecedented political kickback scandal and devastating economic recession, the deeply corrupt, ideologically unpopular PMDB has led the campaign to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on fraudulent charges of budgetary manipulation.
But Rousseff herself has yet to be directly linked to the kickback scheme, and the politicians maneuvering for her to be stripped of office are, if anything, more deeply implicated than her allies.
The fall of Calheiros was a question of time because he faces 11 corruption investigations, most of them related to the massive bribery and kickback scandal centered on state-run oil company Petrobras.
You can't rely on strength from your shoulder to support you, so there's more kickback, and I found my hand was trembling a lot both before and after I fired off my rounds.
According to the complaint, Mr. Davenport used a series of shell companies — including one called End Game — to secretly transfer a kickback payment to Mr. Tanner after the purchase-option agreement went through.
The investigation into graft at Petrobras, dubbed "Operation Car Wash," has uncovered a kickback scheme that has ensnared dozens of top politicians and high-level executives at Brazil's biggest construction and engineering firms.
In a broadcast interview with local TV channel RPP on Friday, Kuczynski added that any company involved in Odebrecht's kickback schemes in Peru would be barred, as Odebrecht has, from future public contracts.
And the Trump administration has taken the first step toward eliminating a "safe-harbor" provision that allows rebates to be paid in Medicare's Part D drug program without violating federal anti-kickback laws.
Correa was sentenced to 13 years in prison earlier this year by a court in Valencia for setting up a kickback scheme and rigging public contracts, in a case linked to the Gurtel probe.
Following an eight-week trial and four days of deliberations, a federal jury in Miami delivered a partial verdict finding Philip Esformes, 50, guilty on 20 counts including conspiracy, kickback and money-laundering charges.
The Times of Israel reported that authorities accuse Deep Dot Web administrators of making "millions of dollars in commission through their referrals," which Israeli police tweeted was a sort of Bitcoin-based kickback scheme.
The government has alleged in earlier settlements that drugmakers used such charities as a means to improperly pay the copay obligations of Medicare patients using their drugs in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Best Buddies, a nonprofit dedicated to helping developmentally disabled people, has paid Brady's Change the World Foundation Trust upwards of $0003 million in what appears to be a kind of kickback for Brady's work.
Ted Kennedy died and Democrats lost a special election -- and that the Senate version of the bill passed, just barely, after some wheeling and dealing -- see: the (ultimately abandoned) Cornhusker Kickback -- with Nebraska Sen.
SBM was accused of paying bribes to government officials to secure contracts with Petrobras, which has been at the center of Brazil's largest corruption scandal amid investigations into a political kickback scheme involving contractors.
Biopharmaceutical company Incyte Corp has engaged in a series of unlawful marketing and kickback schemes aimed at promoting the sale of its blockbuster bone marrow cancer drug Jakafi, a newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit alleges.
The two deposed investigators earlier this month announced they would seek fines of about $180 million from local companies, politicians and businessmen for taking part in kickback schemes involving Odebrecht construction projects in Peru.
Todd Schlifstein was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan after pleading guilty in June to conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute by accepting $127,100 from the now-bankrupt opioid manufacturer.
A quick background if you're unfamiliar with the rebate system: PBMs and insurers demand drug manufacturers pay a significant fee — a rebate (perhaps better described as a kickback) — to get access to insurers' plans.
Democrats have pointed to a provision in the bill relating to pass-through businesses as the "Corker kickback," suggesting he switched his vote because the final bill could benefit people with real estate holdings.
"Our main goal is to help people save money," he told me, though he also freely admitted that TurboTax would obviously get a kickback when people refinance their homes after it generates a lead.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been forced out of power in a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Friday, after a Spanish court ruling that Rajoy's party financially benefited from an illegal kickback scheme.
Why it matters: Federal kickback law prohibits pharmaceutical companies from offering drug coupons to Medicare and Medicaid patients because the coupons induce patients to choose certain medications even though cheaper alternatives might be available.
Cabral, who has denied wrongdoing, belongs to the same party as President Michel Temer, whose cabinet includes a half-dozen ministers accused of involvement in kickback schemes, posing risks to his unpopular austerity agenda.
Faith in the nation's democracy and government institutions has cratered in recent years, especially after the 2016 impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the enormous kickback schemes that have tainted all major political parties.
"The mechanism" is Mr. Padilha's term for a sweeping corruption and kickback scheme that, he argues, seized control of democracy in Brazil almost from its return in 1985, after a 21-year military dictatorship.
"I'll give you Atlantic City — without me, you do nothing," Angelo J. Errichetti, who was then mayor of Camden, N.J., boasted to an undercover agent about arranging a casino license for a $50,000 kickback.
The premise of the kickback and self-referral laws is that health care providers should make medical decisions based on the needs of patients, not on the financial interests of doctors or other providers.
A federal appeals court reversed the dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit by a former employee of Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc and Merck & Co Inc claiming they engaged in an off-label marketing and kickback scheme.
Brazilian prosecutors said the Swiss had arrested Fernando Migliaccio da Silva, an executive with engineering group Odebrecht SA, one of the largest companies at the center of a price fixing and political kickback scandal.
"I'll give you Atlantic City — without me, you do nothing," Angelo J. Errichetti, who was then mayor of Camden, N.J., said to an undercover agent about arranging a casino license for a $50,000 kickback.
"I would obviously hope that a physician would not prescribe based on some type of kickback or anything like that, that they'd obviously be prescribing [in] the best interest of the patient," he said.
"Usually that means there's something going on under the table, some sort of kickback or some sort of fee being paid from the treatment program to the sober house or vice versa," Mishek said.
His predecessor there, Sol Adler, was fired amid accusations that he had an affair with an employee, and there was an investigation into whether another manager there had been demanding kickback payments from vendors.
Prosecutors accused Tanner of steering Valeant business to Philidor, while concealing a $9.7 million kickback from Davenport that came from the roughly $50 million Davenport received when Valeant acquired the option to buy his company.
Pulling the trigger on the Deltaburst not only fires three shots each time, it also triggers a force feedback mechanism to simulate kickback, and to create the animated reload effect of a bolt-action rifle.
Two former employees of Insys Therapeutics, Jonathan Roper and Fernando Serrano, were arrested on Thursday for allegedly participating in kickback schemes involving doctors who prescribed the company's main drug, Subsys, a pain medication containing fentanyl.
In court documents, Brazilian prosecutors have portrayed Berkowitz, who went by the code name "Batman" in messages with alleged co-conspirators, as a central player in the kickback scheme and a recipient of Vitol bribes.
Since 2015, Novartis has paid hundreds of millions in settlements and fines as a result of kickback allegations in South Korea, the United States and China and faces an investigation of alleged bribery in Greece.
The former chief executive of a regional pain management company and the owner of a durable medical equipment firm have been indicted on federal charges that they engaged in a $4.6 million Medicare kickback scheme.
The Car Wash investigation, which revolves around kickback payments for Petrobras contracts, has rocked Brazil's political and business establishment, resulting in hundreds of arrests, that include billionaires who own some of the largest Brazilian companies.
Because you can&apost have this level of violence, turf wars and drugs going through that city without somebody being paid and kickback paddy whack, give a dog a bone to turn a blind eye.
The former chief executive of Indiana nursing home operator American Senior Communities has been sentenced to 9-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to participating in a $19.4 million fraud and kickback scheme.
Public fury over the scheme played a pivotal role in the ouster of Ms. Rousseff, who was chairwoman of Petrobras when the kickback arrangement was hatched, though she has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Ms. Rousseff has not been accused of graft, though many people question her innocence, given her role as chairwoman of the national oil company at a time when the epic kickback scheme was being hatched.
Ultimately, Mr. Silver was convicted on corruption charges, Mr. Rapfogel went to prison for a kickback scheme and a path cleared for Essex Crossing, which finally makes good on the city's half-century-old promise.
Deltan Dallagnol, a prosecutor, called Mr. da Silva the "ultimate commander" of bribery and kickback schemes that allowed his leftist Workers' Party to build coalitions in Congress, describing him as "the general" at the helm.
The consortium that expanded the metro is led by Queiroz Galvao and Odebrecht Infraestrutura - two firms caught up in Brazil's biggest corruption scandal yet uncovered, a sprawling kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
Prosecutors charged him with corruption and money laundering for allegedly taking bribes disguised as favors from an engineering firm implicated in the sprawling bribery and political kickback scheme at Petrobras, the state-run oil company.
Karen Hill, a sales representative who became the company's district manager for the Miami region, pleaded guilty in federal court in Mobile, Alabama to conspiring to violate the same anti-kickback law, court records show.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Minutes after taking her oath of office in 2011, President Dilma Rousseff stood before Congress and pledged to end the dirty back-room deals and kickback schemes at the heart of Brazilian politics.
The filed complaint also argues that packaging fees violate California's Unfair Competition Law, and says they violate a federal statue of the Labor-Management Relations Act, an anti-kickback provision of the Taft-Hartley Act.
Prosecutors presented evidence that Mr. Seabrook, 58, had steered $20 million of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association money into a risky hedge fund in exchange for a kickback potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Patients who are covered by government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid will not be able to use it because drug companies, which helped negotiate the rates, could be seen as violating anti-kickback laws.
Campbell worked as an FBI undercover informant from 2008 through 2014 inside Russia's nuclear industry, helping to uncover a bribery, kickback, money laundering and extortion scheme that sent several Russian and U.S. executives to prison.
The Florida Patient Brokering Act prohibits people and health-care facilities from offering any kind of "commission, bonus, rebate, kickback, or bribe, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind," in exchange for patient referrals.
"Neconde completely denies any allegation or suspicion of kickback for the acquisition of its interest in OML 42 and the statement credited to Shell suggesting the contrary is untrue and most unfortunate," the company said.
Prosecutors have charged an Ohio doctor with wrongfully disclosing patient records to an ex-Avanir Pharmaceuticals sales representative who has already been indicted for participating in a kickback scheme to promote a neurological disorder drug.
Lula already faced several other charges related to a sweeping kickback probe at state-run oil company Petrobras, and Odebrecht is serving a 19-year sentence after his conviction on other corruption allegations in the investigation.
Natalie Levine, who worked at the Arizona-based drugmaker from 2013 to 2014, entered her plea in federal court in Hartford, Connecticut to one count of engaging in a kickback scheme that defrauded federal healthcare programs.
Rousseff, who has been in office since 2011, has seen her popularity crushed by Brazil's worst recession since the 1930s and a two-year probe into a vast kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
"Within two hours of submitting just the general application, we got kickback from Facebook saying that we were not approved because we offer couple and group options, and that puts an emphasis on sex," Manliguis said.
Her supporters, however, stress that the president herself has not been directly implicated in any of the scandals, many of which emanate from a massive probe into kickback schemes within the state-run oil company Petrobras.
Musk is apparently offering a sizable kickback, though — workers who sign up won't have to pay for the supposedly fully self-driving version of Autopilot, or for a premium interior, if they buy a new car.
Hospital system Indiana University Health Inc and clinic operator HealthNet Inc have agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that they engaged in an illegal kickback scheme involving patient referrals, the U.S. Justice Department said.
That came in response to Brazil's unprecedented fight against corruption in recent years, which has jailed scores of powerful businessmen and politicians and uncovered a multi-billion dollar political kickback scheme centering on state-run firms.
Former Insys sales manager Natalie Reed Perhacs recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud including engaging in kickback schemes in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama (Southern Division).
Jeffrey Goldstein, 49, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute by accepting $196,000 from the drugmaker to act as a speaker at educational programs that prosecutors contend were shams.
Lula left office in 2011 with the highest approval rating of any Brazilian leader but will now stand trial for corruption in the massive bribery and political kickback scandal at state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro.
In 2013, a former part-owner of one such company pleaded guilty in federal court to engaging in a kickback scheme with a brokerage firm that recruited litigants looking for cash advances ahead of their settlements.
The supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay, John Venditto, was charged along with Mr. Mangano, the county executive, and his wife, Linda, in what prosecutors said was a bribery and kickback scheme dating to 2010.
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan said former Novartis sales representative Stephen Camburn had failed to adequately allege the existence of a kickback scheme that would give rise to claims under the False Claims Act.
A Florida-based compounding pharmacy, its private equity owner and two executives will pay nearly $21.4 million to resolve claims they engaged in a kickback scheme aimed at generating reimbursements from the military healthcare program Tricare.
Federal prosecutors have accused Temer, who was president from 2016 to 2018, of leading a "criminal organization" that had received or arranged for up to 1.8 billion reais ($472 million) in bribes through various kickback schemes.
And if advisors tell you they're a "fee-based" financial planner they're likely referring to a hybrid compensation structure that includes doing work for a flat fee and also getting a kickback on certain financial products.
From 1997 to 1999, during his first spell as prime minister, he was investigated several times for a variety of reasons, from a kickback scheme to influence peddling, and he has been investigated occasionally ever since.
The new provision that has caught everyone's eye as a handout to people like Trump essentially reintroduces a tax break for wealthy investors who aren't creating jobs — a kickback that would primarily benefit real estate investors.
Douglas Pick, 57, pleaded guilty in federal court in Tyler, Texas on Monday to making unlawful kickback payments, while Pharmaceutical Technologies agreed to pay more than $8.5 million as part of a non-prosecution agreement, prosecutors said.
Argentina's government has asked Brazil to list the Argentines who have been named in the Odebrecht bribery probe and the wider graft and political kickback investigation called "Car Wash" that centers on state-run oil company Petrobras.
Corporate General Manager Mario Alvarado said in an interview with local Peruvian magazine Caretas that Grana knew nothing about any kickback schemes and had no idea that Odebrecht had a special department dedicated to secretly distributing bribes.
In another study, depicted in the graph below, we provided $100 to allocate across the Obama and Romney campaigns, but told respondents that contributions made to Romney would result in a 10 percent kickback to them personally.
In the face of a massive bribery and kickback scandal and Petrobras' $22007 billion of debt, Parente has pledged to run the company in a more market-friendly way but has declined to comment on individual projects.
"The similarity I draw [with Epstein's new indictment] is that the public corruption unit is involved in a case they would normally not be involved in [as opposed to] a kickback or public extortion case," Honig said.
PHH Corporation, a company based in Mount Laurel, N.J., was accused in 2014 by the agency of running a 15-year kickback scheme, collecting millions in illegal payments for referring business to insurance companies, NJ.com reports. AmericanBanker.
During the health care debate from 2009 to 2010, Senator Ben Nelson was savaged over the "Cornhusker kickback," which would have subsidized Nebraska's share of payments for expanding Medicaid; the provision was pulled from the final legislation.
"I'm against all the dubious horse-trading this government does," said Mr. Maluf, 84, a former São Paulo mayor who faces charges in the United States that he stole more than $11.6 million in a kickback scheme.
Dialysis providers DaVita Inc and Fresenius Medical Care violated an anti-kickback law by contributing to a charity that helps kidney disease patients afford treatment that then steered business to them, a newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit alleges.
Drug companies are not allowed to provide co-pay assistance to such patients because it is considered a kickback, an illegal financial inducement to get someone to use a product for which the government is then billed.
That decision focused on a provision of the federal wire fraud statute that allowed it to be applied to a breach of the right of honest services, restricting it to those cases involving a bribe or kickback.
Natalie Levine, who worked at the Arizona-based drugmaker from 2013 to 2014, entered her plea in federal court in Hartford, Connecticut, to one count of conspiring to violate a federal anti-kickback statute, U.S. prosecutors said.
Judge Sergio Moro, who has overseen the bulk of Brazil's biggest graft probe into a long-standing kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras, ruled that Lula, his wife Marisa and seven others will stand trial.
Another example is that hospitals are reluctant to support or reward doctors for following best practices and protocols designed to improve outcomes because it could be viewed as an inducement under the Stark and Anti-Kickback Statute.
The harassment escalated, the women said, after they supported their co-worker, Rachid Lakhal, a whistle-blower who accused one of his superiors of a kickback scheme and was fired twice — once after he had been reinstated.
Mr. Huberfeld has been charged with paying Norman Seabrook, the former head of the correction officers' union, a $60,000 kickback that persuaded Mr. Seabrook to invest millions of dollars of his union's pension fund in Platinum Partners.
At the time of the sale, Campbell was a confidential source for the FBI in a Maryland bribery and kickback investigation of the head of a U.S. unit of Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear power company.
They are prohibited from funding co-payments for those on Medicaid (which helps the poor) and Medicare (which helps the elderly) by the anti-kickback statute, which prevents private companies from inducing people to use government services.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ordered Petrobras, the state-run Brazilian oil company, to face class-action litigation by investors seeking to recoup billions of dollars in losses stemming from a bribery and political kickback scandal.
The transaction later worried prosecutors in the criminal case because they feared it might muddy their case of extortion against Mikerin because the voluntary payment was made only shortly before the kickback demands started, the sources said.
The case is the first in which Ms. Rousseff, who was impeached last year for violating budgetary rules, stands accused of partaking in the kickback schemes that have cast a pall over every major Brazilian political party.
Avenatti said the charge should have been thrown out because it did not mention a "bribe" or "kickback," which he said was necessary under a 2010 Supreme Court case involving former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling.
More than 290 people, many from the companies built up as national champions and including Brazil's most powerful building tycoon, Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht, have been sentenced on corruption charges linked to kickback schemes, racketeering and money-laundering.
The PBM market is dominated by three PBMs, and a lack of transparency and regulation provides a fertile environment for them to escalate profits through kickback arrangements (known as rebates) and other efforts to escalate drug costs.
Bump stocks replace a rifle's standard stock, which is the part held against the shoulder, freeing the weapon to slide back and forth rapidly, harnessing the energy from the kickback that shooters feel when the weapon fires.
Dr. Alexandru Burducea, who was one of five New York doctors indicted last year on charges that they accepted kickbacks from Insys, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, prosecutors said.
Four former employees at Michael Bloomberg's financial media juggernaut have been indicted in an alleged multimillion-dollar kickback scheme where lucrative construction projects were awarded to contractors bidding to do work on Bloomberg offices, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras , Brazil's largest state-controlled firm, has been forced to sell assets and slash spending as it recovers from the plunge in oil prices and a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal.
The details are redacted, but he seems to be saying that the super PAC head and the ad-buying firm had a kickback "scheme" — and that the super PAC head "may have" had a similar arrangement with Manafort.
Brazil's Supreme Court revealed in June that parts of Machado's plea bargain testimony alleges that the campaign contribution requested by Temer was made legally by engineering group Queiroz Galvao but resulted from a kickback on contracts with Petrobras.
While Campbell does receive a kickback when new drivers sign up for Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar through his blog, he doesn't directly work for any of them, nor does he shy away from vocalizing criticism on his blog.
Sao Paulo state prosecutors have requested Lula's arrest for allegedly benefiting from graft money generated by bribery and kickback schemes uncovered at state-oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. The PMDB has its own reasons to hasten Rousseff's impeachment.
The impeachment process was launched by the former lower house speaker, Eduardo Cunha, who is facing charges of corruption, including taking bribes in the Petrobras kickback scandal and having millions of dollars hidden away in Swiss bank accounts.
Prosecutors say Kapoor directed a kickback scheme that helped fuel the epidemic in order to boost the company's sales of Subsys, an under-the-tongue fentanyl spray approved only for use in managing severe pain in cancer patients.
Odebrecht has rocked Latin American politics with its public confession a year ago that it orchestrated sophisticated kickback schemes across a dozen countries for more than a decade - landing elites in jail from Colombia to the Dominican Republic.
The speaker program, he felt, amounted to a thinly disguised kickback scheme, and he was also concerned that management was pushing an overly high dose of Subsys to first-time patients, despite boldface F.D.A. warnings of the dangers.
He relied on Oswald Jacoby's book How to Win at Gin Rummy for playing cards, and used graphs to time the market when he traded stocks using commissions and kickback money from the various CONCACAF contracts he negotiated.
The allegations against them were made in a plea bargain statement by former Workers Party senator Delcidio do Amaral, who was jailed last year for obstructing an investigation into the massive bribery and kickback scandal centered on Petrobras.
The former top aide of retired UAW Vice President Joe Ashton, a former member of the GM board of directors, is expected to plead guilty next week to charges involving bribery and kickback schemes that defrauded union workers.
Last year, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn indicted a doctor and a marketing consultant in a kickback scheme that involved luring women with mesh implants to get removal surgery, even if the implants weren't causing many problems for them.
In Bridgegate, prosecutors used a different criminal fraud statute and a different legal theory than was at issue in McDonnell— honest services fraud only applies where there was a bribe or kickback involved, which wasn't the case here.
A federal indictment announced several months later added a stunning twist, accusing Mr. Tanner, 50, of funneling Valeant business to Philidor without disclosing that he had financial ties to the pharmacy in the form of the kickback scheme.
Garcia's representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment but Garcia has previously denied any involvement in Odebrecht's kickback schemes in Peru, saying he feels "ashamed" that corrupt officials might have been a part of his government.
Car Wash, which began in 2014 with a routine investigation into money laundering, has led to more than 400 prosecutions in Brazil and the recovery of billions of dollars from companies and defendants implicated in vast kickback schemes.
A former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and the former head of a start-up mail-order pharmacy were sentenced to one year in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of defrauding the drugmaker through a secret kickback scheme.
The Justice Department last week announced settlements of $6.9 million with four nursing homes in the San Diego area over kickback and fraud allegations and $1.25 million with one in Lumberton, Mississippi, over alleged false claims for substandard care.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross in Wilmington, Delaware, sided with lawyers for the company's creditors backed by six state attorneys general who wanted to ensure no employees linked to what prosecutors say was a massive kickback scheme got paid.
Last year, the couple were named defendants in an ongoing trial linked to a sprawling kickback investigation of state-run oil company Petrobras, which revealed a deep-rooted culture of corruption among major businesses, elected officials and political leaders.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal prosecutor told jurors in Manhattan on Thursday that a former Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc executive and the former head of mail order pharmacy Philidor Rx Services defrauded Valeant through a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme.
They ranged from extortion charges in 2011 against city officers who, for a kickback, funneled accident victims to select towing operators, to a racketeering conspiracy in 2013 involving prison guards who were in bed with inmates (literally and figuratively).
"Waitr's systematic failure to adequately reimburse automobile expenses constitutes a 'kickback' to Waitr such that the hourly wages they pay to Plaintiffs and the Putative Class Members was and continues to be below the minimum wage," the suit states.
Chui hounds for discounts and frequent flier deals, but he makes good money and tells me he often pays full price for his flights—though his YouTube channel is popular enough to earn a small kickback from ad revenue.
Meanwhile investors have sued after the company became involved in a price-fixing, bribery and political kickback affair involving some of the same construction and engineering firms that are part of a scandal at state-led oil company Petrobras.
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman in Chicago ruled that Stop Illinois Health Care Fraud LLC had failed at trial to present evidence showing Asif Sayeed's companies engaged in a "quid pro quo" that violated the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Delton Dallagnol, a prosecutor in the case, last week called Mr. da Silva the "ultimate commander" of bribery and kickback schemes aimed at maintaining his party's grip on the presidency, but failed to offer hard evidence of his claim.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on Tuesday said Thomas Guilfoile had plausibly claimed he was fired after questioning whether Shields Health Solutions' (SHS) business referral arrangement with a hospital consultant violated the Anti-Kickback Statute.
LIMA (Reuters) - The Peruvian prosecutor tasked with seeking damages owed to the state for corruption said on Monday he plans to fine local companies, politicians and businessmen about $180 million for taking part in Brazilian builder Odebrecht's kickback schemes.
In contrast, Starling's revenue mode is based solely on lending customer deposits in the form of a transparent overdraft, and, in some instances, a revenue share or kickback from the companies it is partnering with for the Starling Marketplace.
On Tuesday, FIFA asked the United States Justice Department for a share of the hundreds of millions that the authorities stand to collect from the defendants who have so far admitted to participating in longstanding bribery and kickback schemes.
A pair of Puma Slim Sweatpants and a pair of wrap-front wide-legged pants from her Kylie + Kendall line — because nothing says "Happy Mother's Day" like a little well-earned kickback for the momager who started it all.
The American Hospital Association responded in a statement that it was reviewing the paper but argued that "regulatory barriers, including the anti-kickback law, limit the ability of hospitals to work with physicians to bring down purchasing costs further."
The cases alleged that an array of defendants, 38 in all, devised various fraudulent schemes to induce doctors caring for patients with cancer and other grave illnesses to prescribe their products, in violation of anti-kickback and antifraud statutes.
Other cases being prosecuted by the office involve charges of insider trading against William T. Walters, a Las Vegas sports gambler who has also pleaded not guilty, and an alleged kickback scheme by a former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc executive and the former chief executive of mail order pharmacy Philidor Rx Services pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges they orchestrated a multi-million dollar fraud and kickback scheme.
Steven also admitted that he arranged for a $130,000 kickback to be sent from the South African company to himself, and falsely claimed while being interviewed by a U.S. law enforcement official that the payment related to a real estate deal.
The FBI last week executed a search warrant at a Kansas medical group formerly owned by a physician who received thousands of dollars in speaker fees from Insys Therapeutics Inc, a drug company at the center of a federal kickback probe.
The investigation, led by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, has led to allegations that several drugmakers used these charitable foundations as a means to pay Medicare patients' co-pays in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
On Thursday, another federal judge had blocked the nomination, saying it could not be ignored that Moreira Franco had reportedly been named in plea bargain testimony that linked him to a massive political kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
Public Prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol told a news conference that Lula will be charged with corruption and money laundering for leading a kickback scheme that caused an estimated 42 billion reais ($12.6 billion) in losses to Petrobras shareholders and tax payers.
SAO PAULO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities on Friday started their investigation into a small plane crash that killed a Supreme Court justice who was overseeing the investigation of a political kickback scheme, the largest ever uncovered in the country.
BOSTON (Reuters) - The brother of the former chief executive of American Senior Communities has pleaded guilty to participating in what prosecutors say was a $16 million fraud and kickback scheme run by executives at one of Indiana's largest nursing home operators.
The investigation into the overbilling began after the firm's executives entered into a plea-bargain deal to offer details about their role in long-running and massive political kickback schemes that have been uncovered by investigators in the past three years.
The program will cost 36.93 billion reais and is open to all employees, according to a statement from Petrobras, which has been hard hit by low oil prices, refinery project problems and a massive price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal.
He is the latest high-profile politician who will have to stand trial in the nearly three-year corruption probe known as operation "Car Wash," which began by unraveling a massive political kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
"Jayk and I play on a flag football team together," Carter says of what he likes to do on outside of the recording studio, while English and Scott (and Purdy and Carter, too) might opt to kickback and watch a flick.
A probe led by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts has led to allegations that several drugmakers used these charitable foundations as a means to pay Medicare patients' co-pays in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
A plea deal by former Petrobras executive Sergio Machado, made public by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, said a campaign contribution requested by Temer was made legally by engineering group Queiroz Galvao but resulted from a kickback on contracts with Petrobras.
Tenet Healthcare Corp has tentatively agreed to pay $66 million to resolve claims it billed government programs for services provided to patients referred to it by doctors who had improper financial and kickback relationships with an Oklahoma hospital it owns.
Safa is a Lebanese-French billionaire and chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder Privinvest, which proposed, helped arrange financing for and supplied a project in Mozambique that U.S. authorities say was a front for a bribe and kickback scheme.
"We are certain all of the people from Mountrigi or Televisa that have dealt with FIFA have acted correctly and have not paid any bribes nor any kickback to FIFA official related to the acquisition of rights," the Televisa spokesman said.
PRETORIA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - South Africa's Special Investigating Unit (SIU) will investigate whether a kickback of more than 35 million rand ($2 million) was paid for a state contract with German software firm SAP, a spokeswoman for the unit told Reuters.
When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 85033, HHS was authorized to waive the self-referral and anti-kickback prohibitions for accountable care organizations (mostly hospital-led entities) that attempted to coordinate care for about nine million Medicare beneficiaries.
Reebok NPC UK Cotton + Corn unisex sneaker, $90When Reebok first launched the Cotton + Corn NPC UK sneaker, it featured leather accents on the heel tab, but after receiving kickback from Peta, the brand took the initiative to make the shoe vegan.
Bump stocks are devices that harness a gun's kickback energy, making semiautomatic gun (which fires one bullet with each trigger-pull) mimic a fully automatic one (which can fire off multiple rounds until the shooter takes their finger off the trigger).
Its many twist and turns aside, the FBI nuclear industry case proved a gold mine, in part because it uncovered a new Russian money laundering apparatus that routed bribe and kickback payments through financial instruments in Cyprus, Latvia and Seychelles.
The dossier alleged that Mr. Manafort managed "a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation" between the Trump campaign "and the Russian leadership," and that Mr. Yanukovych had informed President Vladimir V. Putin that he ordered "substantial kickback payments" to Mr. Manafort.
But prosecutors expressed outrage, calling the move an "insulto natalino," or Christmas insult, signed by a deeply unpopular president who this year managed to stave off prosecution over accusations of condoning bribes, obstructing justice and helping mastermind a huge kickback scheme.
Driving the news: The Department of Health and Human Services would create new exemptions for the physician self-referral law and the federal anti-kickback statute — decades-old, complex laws that forbid payments that encourage unnecessary care and increase taxpayer costs.
The U.S. Attorney's Office also as part of a civil settlement said Aegerion violated a anti-kickback law by funneling funds through PSI to induce Juxtapid purchases by defraying patient's co-payment obligations for the drug, which eventually cost $330,000 annually.
The artwork first appeared on Italian TV and newspapers in the summer and drew no reaction, but there was a fierce kickback on Monday when it was presented at an event in Milan, with negative comments rapidly tearing through social media.
The artwork first appeared on Italian TV and newspapers in the summer and drew no reaction, but there was a fierce kickback on Monday when it was presented at an event in Milan, with negative comments rapidly tearing through social media.
Dialecti Voudouris, 48, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan to time served after she pleaded guilty in August to conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute by accepting $119,400 in kickbacks from the now-bankrupt opioid manufacturer.
A former sales representative for Insys Therapeutics Inc who married the then-chief executive was sentenced on Monday to six months of home confinement after admitting that she engaged in a kickback scheme to boost sales of the company's fentanyl spray.
Related: Brazil's House Speaker Faces Charges Within the Massive Petrobras Kickback Probe On Friday morning frenetic activity on Brazilian social media included those celebrating the swoop against Lula and others protesting against what they saw was a form of coup.
The move to impeach Rousseff comes in the midst of a broader political crisis associated with a massive anti-corruption probe — deemed Operation Lava Jato, or Car Wash — which is investigating a kickback scheme involving state-run petroleum company Petrobras.
With the country already reeling from a sprawling bribery and kickback scandal at state oil company Petrobras, the new corruption case could hamper the conservative Temer's efforts to restore credibility and turn the page on the leftist government of impeached President Dilma Rousseff.
Judge Sergio Moro said that Lula, the most powerful political force in Brazil during the last two decades, will be judged for allegedly accepting 3.7 million reais ($1.11 million) in bribes connected to the sweeping kickback probe at state-run oil company Petrobras.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian Finance Minister Antonio Palocci told a court hearing on Thursday that he could provide details of a political kickback scheme, which could threaten former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's chances of running in the 2018 election.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc and the former head of a start-up mail-order pharmacy were sentenced to one year in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of defrauding the drugmaker through a secret kickback scheme.
"The investigation to date has identified a network of commercial vendors, NGO employees, and others who have colluded to engage in bid-rigging and multiple bribery and kickback schemes related to contracts to deliver humanitarian aid in Syria," it said in a statement.
But that agreement did not include reparations for nine Latin American countries outside of Brazil where bribes were distributed, or details of who was part of its kickback schemes - stoking fears that little money will be left to pay fines across the region.
NEW YORK - Investors suing Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras to recoup billions of dollars in losses argued on Tuesday that the arrests and plea deals of top company executives prove that it knew of a massive bribery and political kickback scheme.
His previous term ended in a vote of no confidence in 2017 in response to allegations, which he denied, that he had received a kickback from Huawei for a contract to lay a high-speed internet cable from the Solomon Islands to Sydney.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities on Friday recovered the black box that was in a small plane that crashed and killed a Supreme Court justice who was overseeing the investigation of a political kickback scheme, the largest ever uncovered in the country.
Salvador, Brazil-based Odebrecht, Latin America's largest engineering conglomerate, is also expected to return some 6 billion reais to public coffers, including those of several state companies in Brazil, which it allegedly overcharged in a contract-fixing and political kickback scheme, Valor said.
In the plea deal made public on Wednesday, his father accused interim President Michel Temer of seeking campaign donations stemming from the kickback scheme at Petrobras, as the state oil company is known, for one of his party's mayoral candidates four years ago.
She had reached out to me, and she claimed that in addition to phone numbers of CIA officials who used her service, she had top-secret documents implicating a CIA officer in a kickback scheme that involved government contracts awarded to his friends.
Major telecom companies were not psyched about these new rules, in part because they limited the ways companies could make money (for example, an ISP couldn't get a kickback from a streaming service for providing faster connections to that service over, say, Netflix).
Plea bargain testimony by defendants in the bribery and political kickback scandal have led prosecutors closer to Rousseff's inner circle, including Workers' Party founder and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who is being investigated for allegedly benefiting from graft money.
Several of the PMDB leaders standing next to Temer at the convention are themselves the target of corruption probes, including the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, who has been indicted for laundering money in the Petrobras kickback scandal.
The task force was credited by the department in helping bring a number of those crisis-era cases, as well as other cases unrelated to the crisis, such as criminal charges against a former Valeant executive in connection with an alleged kickback scheme.
Reporters on the Hill have taken to calling the carve-out to help Alaskans the "Polar Payoff," the "Kodiak Kickback," and even the "Juneau Jackpot" — a special gift to the state, inserted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to win Murkowski's vote.
SAO PAULO, Feb 60 (Reuters) - An overwhelming majority of Brazilians want an investigation into a sprawling kickback scheme at state-controlled oil producer Petrobras to continue despite concern it is hurting the nation's ailing economy, according to a poll released on Monday.
Suspicious that the sales were a form of a kickback to wholesalers, to induce more orders, he asked his sales staff and the wholesalers to produce original copies of the orders from government institutions, which they failed to do, Abbott emails show.
Prosecutors said Lula orchestrated the political appointment of Petrobras executives who would carry out the kickback scheme, with the money being funneled back into the campaign coffers of Lula's Workers Party and its allies, including Brazil's current ruling party, the Democratic Movement Party.
A year earlier, writedowns were also the cause of Petrobras losses, although they were largely related to the giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal that has roiled the company and help fuel calls for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
PDVSA has been at the center of a number of corruption scandals over the years, the most recent case involving a group of Houston-based businessmen who pleaded guilty in the United States to running a $1 billion kickback scheme to obtain contracts.
A 2100-page, 2450-count indictment released by federal prosecutors alleges a bribery and kickback scheme stretching back to the beginning of 2000, when Mr. Mangano became county executive after an upset victory over Thomas R. Suozzi, the Democratic incumbent, the previous year.
Ms. Mato was ordered to reimburse 27,800 euros for gifts and family trips paid for by one of the companies at the heart of the kickback scheme, while her former husband and fellow politician, Jesús Sepúlveda, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Rodrigo Janot, the attorney general whose term ended in September, charged Mr. Temer with corruption in June, alleging that the president condoned the payment of a bribe to a jailed politician to keep him from implicating other colleagues in a kickback scheme.
The government alleged that from 2009 to 2013, 12 Questcor sales reps marketing the company's drug, H.P. Acthar Gel (Acthar), provided illegal payments to health-care providers in the form of expensive meals and entertainment, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Mr. Macri came into office as corruption scandals were rattling several countries in the region, most notably Brazil, where a team of judges and prosecutors have recovered billions of dollars and sentenced scores of politicians and businessmen for their roles in kickback schemes.
"I'll give you Atlantic City — without me, you do nothing," Mayor Angelo J. Errichetti of Camden, who was also a state senator and a political power in southern New Jersey, bragged of his contacts to arrange a casino license for a $50,000 kickback.
On Tuesday, in a surprise move, Mr. Janot, Brazil's top prosecutor, accused former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; his handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff; and six other Workers' Party stalwarts of running a huge kickback scheme during their nearly 14 years in power.
During his final days on the job, Attorney General Rodrigo Janot charged Mr. Temer with obstruction of justice and with being part of a criminal conspiracy that involved a plot to prevent the authorities from learning about a wide-ranging kickback scheme.
A health care provider who violates the anti-kickback or self-referral law may face business-crippling fines under the False Claims Act and can be excluded from Medicare and Medicaid, a penalty tantamount to a professional death sentence for some providers.
The man, 2119.92-year-old Erik Santos is accused in a complaint by the U.S. Attorney's Office of New Jersey of one count of conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, and a single count of conspiring to commit health care fraud.
They proceeded to spend that political capital almost entirely on passing Obamacare in a lengthy process that included a number of unusual compromises with their own party members, like the "Cornhusker Kickback" and controversial legislative tricks like the "deemed as passed" maneuver.
" According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, anti-kickback laws make it "illegal for providers (including physicians) to knowingly and willfully accept bribes or other forms of remuneration in return for generating Medicare, Medicaid or other federal health care program business.
Jill Gordon, a Los Angeles-based health lawyer at Nixon Peabody, said that in pricing arrangements, it's often a "tip off that someone is concerned about anti-kickback or other compliance issues," if they price differently based on the type of insurer.
NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday cleared the way for investors to sue Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras as a group in litigation over billions of dollars in losses stemming from a bribery and political kickback scandal.
It was potentially lucrative for the firm, a small fund that stood out for its double-digit returns, but Mr. Rechnitz told Mr. Huberfeld that there would be a catch if the deal went through: Mr. Seabrook would have to get a kickback.
The attorneys also argued before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that the plaintiffs had failed to adequately show the news of the bribery and political kickback scandal in Brazil had a downward effect on the company's stock price.
While Mr. da Silva's conviction involves relatively modest sums, especially compared with the staggering scale of some corruption cases in Brazil, prosecutors have described him as the mastermind of an enormous kickback scheme that enabled his party to buy support in Congress.
Related: Brazil's New President Loves Appointing White Men Accused of Corruption and Attempted Murder This Friday Temer signed a law that seeks to make kickback scams harder to set up by banning politicians from jumping into high-ranking jobs in state-controlled companies.
Rousseff has never been formally linked to the Petrobras corruption probe, though many who support her impeachment talk as if she were, and point out that she was minister of energy in Lula's cabinet at the height of the alleged kickback scheme.
The patient would walk into the clinic reporting some imaginary ailment, but rather than having to pay the clinic, say, $35 to see the doctor, the clinic would pay the patient $35—a kickback for the ability to bill Medicare under his or her name.
A $10 million bribe to Warner and Blazer for their 2010 World Cup votes; an envelope stuffed with $40,000 in cash for the president of some obscure Caribbean soccer federation; a kickback for the TV rights to a handful of Central American World Cup qualifiers.
"It's embarrassing to know that you have these elected officials that you voted for being investigated for corruption, racketeering charges, and kickback schemes," said Dwayne Manuel, 26-year-old law student who grew up in Opa-Locka but currently lives in neighboring Miami Gardens.
The contract is the first since SBM paid more than $200 million to settle charges it paid bribes before 2012 to secure contracts with Petrobras, which has been at the center of Brazils largest corruption scandal amid investigations into a political kickback scheme involving contractors.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Arkansas state senator and a college president have been charged in a kickback scheme in which thousands of dollars in bribes were paid to lawmakers who directed state funds to two non-profit groups, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
The big picture: "To date, the DOJ has collected over $840 million from 8 pharmaceutical companies (United Therapeutics, Pfizer, Actelion, Jazz, Lundbeck, Alexion, Astellas and Amgen) that allegedly used third-party foundations as kickback vehicles," the DOJ wrote in its announcement of the settlements.
Mendes is one of about 30 companies implicated in the bribery and kickback investigation that began two years ago and has ensnared dozens of politicians, including the speaker of the lower house of Congress Eduardo Cunha, and added to pressure to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - A group of international investors and law firms are seeking compensation from Brazil's state-led oil company Petrobras under European law for losses allegedly suffered as the result of a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal.
Prosecutors said all three were named in plea bargain deals with states' witnesses in a corruption and political kickback scheme at state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, but that the possible crimes raised by the witnesses were not necessarily related to the Petrobras investigation.
Seemingly still embarrassed by the boys making fun of their child-like toys, Maya and Anna instead spend that evening at a basement kickback with the school's popular girls, drinking beer, huffing from a can of computer keyboard cleaner, and pretend-smoking the cigarette.
Along with the pop-up text windows, the attackers' javascript app was also adding an affiliate tag to the end of every product link on the page, entitling them to a small kickback every time they sent a paying customer to a store like Amazon.
As federal agents tell it, the kickback scheme that led to the arrest on Wednesday of Norman Seabrook, the powerful leader of the New York City correction officers' union, was hatched one night in late 2013 in a hotel room in the Dominican Republic.
NEW YORK, Oct 30 (Reuters) - A former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc and the former head of a start-up mail-order pharmacy were sentenced to one year in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of defrauding the drugmaker through a secret kickback scheme.
The move is the first concrete sign that the Trump administration has started to review the legal status of these rebates since Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb raised the idea early this year that they should not be exempted from anti-kickback law.
To assist in continuing the progress that has been made, CMS recently released a formal Request for Information (RFI), calling for ideas on Stark reform, and in a recent speech HHS Secretary Azar said a similar request related to anti-kickback reform would soon follow.
The man, 49-year-old Erik Santos is accused in a complaint by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey of one count of conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, and a single count of conspiring to commit health care fraud.
" Said Nolan, "During the height of the opioid crisis, the company took a million-dollar kickback to allow an opioid company to inject itself in the sacred doctor-patient relationship so that it could peddle even more of its highly addictive and dangerous opioids.
True kickback to the edit is more likely to come from Europe's more hard-line privacy regulators, set to meet in Brussels on Tuesday to set common guidelines on how U.S. companies can legally handle European citizens' data in the absence of Safe Harbor.
The contract is the first since SBM paid more than $200 million to settle charges it paid bribes before 2012 to secure contracts with Petrobras, which has been at the centre of Brazil's largest corruption scandal amid investigations into a political kickback scheme involving contractors.
Subsidiaries of both Elements and AAC have been accused of participating in urine test kickback schemes, while facilities owned by AAC and two other chains, CRC Health Group and Recovery Centers of America, have been accused of maintaining lax standards of care that contributed to patient deaths.
Moving to my response, I listed three broad categories of relevant motive, which are pure national interest to help the military, pure corrupt motive to obtain a kickback, and mixed motive to help the national interest in a way that can also help a reelection effort.
The filing also says Martinez ordered Gomez to sign a separate contract with a company that was part-owned by his son, and to overhaul Citgo's pension plan in order to boost his own pension payments, both of which Gomez said were linked to kickback schemes.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The arrest of a former Brazilian president on corruption charges is raising questions about how a Swedish consulting company won a contract to help build a nuclear power plant at the center of what prosecutors say was a massive bribery and kickback scheme.
To wit, payments to jail-phone accounts by people who don't have bank accounts are typically made through money transfers with companies such as WesternUnion or MoneyGram, which have increased the cost of transferring funds to certain prison phone companies, for which they receive a kickback.
Parmar is one of the six named plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed against Uber last year that claims, amongst several things, that the company incorrectly took sales tax from drivers' fares rather than collecting it from riders, amounting to "taking a kickback" from drivers' wages.
According to the brief, DOJ seems to have spent more time investigating NHCA – which Justice has described as a Wall-Street-backed "professional" FCA plaintiff that uses deceptive interview tactics to procure whistleblowers – than Bayer and the other defendants NHCA accuses of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Each game begins with a bribe (keeping a casino open in exchange for free chips; arranging a government contract "for the mobile phone company that just hired your 16-year-old daughter as a 'consultant' "; a kickback on a contract to deliver defibrillators to Army hospitals).
Cunha has said repeatedly that he will not resign, even though he faces charges of receiving a $5 million bribe in the widening price-fixing and political kickback scheme that has landed executives of top engineering companies in jail and ensnared dozens of politicians from Rousseff's coalition.
The high-rolling president of America's largest municipal jail guard union was arrested on corruption charges in New York City on Wednesday, along with a prominent hedge fund tycoon who is accused of paying the union leader a sizable kickback in exchange for millions worth of investments.
Villiger had been the head of FIFA's legal department under Blatter, who was forced out in 2015 after a United States Department of Justice indictment revealed dozens of top soccer officials and businessmen had engaged in bribery and kickback schemes dating back more than two decades.
When Mikerin was sentenced to four years in prison in December 2015, a federal prosecutor argued the defendant should not be shown more leniency because the evidence the FBI had gathered showed a sensitive asset, a uranium shipping company, had been compromised by the bribery-kickback scheme.
According to the complaint, filed Wednesday in Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Davenport, who pocketed about $40 million after the purchase option agreement went through, used a series of shell companies to transfer a $10 million kickback payment to Mr. Tanner.
Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks: A former Credit Suisse Group AG banker pleaded guilty on Monday to a U.S. charge that she helped launder money from a kickback scheme involving $2 billion in loans to state-owned companies in Mozambique.
The late Justice, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by former President Dilma Rousseff in 2012, was in charge of the probe known as Lava Jato, or Car Wash, the massive kickback and corruption scheme involving many of Brazil's biggest companies, including state-run oil giant Petrobras.
The testimony was unsealed as the justice, Edson Fachin, authorized investigations of eight government ministers, 12 governors and dozens of federal lawmakers implicated in the scandal, uncovered three years ago because of a kickback investigation at the state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras (PETR4.SA).
But his party's legacy was marred in 2014, when prosecutors began unraveling a giant, convoluted kickback scheme as part of an investigation that became known as Lava Jato, or Car Wash, that has so far resulted in the conviction of 120 people and billions of dollars in restitution payments.
The alleged co-conspirators arranged for more than $2 billion in loands intended to fund three maritime projects, but diverted more than $200 million in loan proceeds in bribe payments to former Finance Minister Manuel Chang and other officials and kickback payments to three investment bankers, the department said.
SAO PAULO, March 22 (Reuters) - The arrest of a former Brazilian president on corruption charges is raising questions about how a Swedish consulting company won a contract to help build a nuclear power plant at the center of what prosecutors say was a massive bribery and kickback scheme.
More sinister is that of the PT, which organised a vast kickback scheme centred on Petrobras as part of a "hegemonic project that involved growing control of parliament, of the judges and…of the media", as Fernando Gabeira, a left-leaning former congressman, wrote in O Globo, a newspaper.
The Supreme Court last ruled on this legal question in the lead-up to Mr. da Silva's imprisonment in 2018, following his July 2017 conviction on corruption and money laundering charges for accepting the use of a seaside apartment as part of what prosecutors described as a kickback scheme.
He departed shortly before the I.O.C.'s executive board was scheduled to issue findings on reports by the BBC that Mr. Havelange had taken a large kickback from a World Cup marketing firm based in Switzerland when he was nearing the end of his final term as FIFA president.
But since the two were friends and lived near each other, they concocted a plan: A friend who lived far away would actually win the $10,000 prize ticket which would be cashed, given back to the butcher, and then out of that $10,000, Jacobson earned a $2,000 kickback.
If the McDonnell decision narrowed the scope of what is illegal for a politician to give — not, say, a simple favor like making a phone call — the Skilling decision narrowed the scope of what is illegal for an official to receive: It must be an overt bribe or kickback.
Brett Guthrie (Ky.), sent letters to Insys Therapeutics asking for information about alleged kickback schemes to boost sales of its fentanyl spray, to Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals to probe efforts to monitor suspicious opioid orders, and to Purdue Pharma for information about what the company knew about the dangers of OxyContin.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mitchell G. Cohen pleaded guilty in November 2015 to filing a false tax return in connection with an illegal kickback scheme, cooperated with the government's investigation, and later served more than eight months in a halfway house in central California through March 2019, court records show.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mitchell G. Cohen pleaded guilty in November 2015 to filing a false tax return in connection with an illegal kickback scheme, cooperated with the government's investigation, and later served more than eight months in a halfway house in central California through March 2019, court records show.
A federal judge has rejected bids by a former Tenet Healthcare Corp executive and two other men to dismiss charges that they participated in a kickback scheme that funneled pregnant Hispanic women to hospitals the company owned and allowed it to fraudulently bill state Medicaid programs for $400 million.
Ms. Aguirre, 64, said at a news conference on Sunday that she was resigning because of the raids and the gravity of the latest accusations, but said she had never received "one cent" in kickback money and did not have any evidence that such corruption had taken place under her watch.
According to the suit, Mallinckrodt "intentionally engaged in an illegal scheme to increase its sales and profits by engaging" in array of illegal activity, including: Violating the federal Anti-Kickback Statute by "using valuable incentives, rewards and other forms of remuneration to induce healthcare providers to promote and prescribe" Acthar.
Ann Marie Williams, a state government manager for Reckitt Benckiser Group, a British opioid producer, recorded company conversations, sounding the alarm on kickback schemes and the practice of encouraging off-label high dosages, leading to a $2019 billion settlement between RB Group and the U.S. government bodies they did business with.
John Kapoor, 74, the founder of opioid pharmaceutical producer Insys Therapeutics (INSY) and the sixth richest man in Arizona with a net worth of $2.1 billion, was charged with the illegal distribution of a fentanyl spray and with violating anti-kickback laws, according to the U.S. Attorney&aposs Office in Boston.
In 2014, a routine money laundering probe that became known as Lava Jato, or Car Wash, exposed vast kickback schemes that tarred nearly all the large political parties and crippled pillars of the economy, including the state-owned oil company Petrobras, the construction giant Odebrecht and JBS, the world's largest meatpacker.
But the elections, which toppled many incumbents in a first round of voting earlier this month, are also a broader renunciation of the status quo, with voters frustrated by a second year of recession and the giant kickback scandal that has led to the arrest dozens of political and corporate chieftains.
They declined to say why, with that knowledge, they initially portrayed Campbell in the indictment as a "victim" of an extortion scheme that began in November 2023 when the FBI had authorized him to make regular kickback payments of $50,000 in order to keep his consulting work for the Russians.
BRASILIA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - An Odebrecht SA executive told prosecutors in a plea bargain deal that Senator Aecio Neves, the head of the main allied party in President Michel Temer's coalition, participated in discussions for a kickback scheme while he was governor of Minas Gerais, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo said on Thursday.
Roper and Serrano were charged with violating an anti-kickback statute, "in connection with their participation in a scheme to pay doctors thousands of dollars to participate in sham educational programs in order to induce the doctors to prescribe millions of dollars' worth of a fentanyl-based sublingual spray" the company manufactured.
Organizers instead played an audio recording (­that repeatedly skipped) in which he urged protesters to reject proposed impeachment measures against Rousseff that are currently being debated in the lower house of the legislature — fallout from a long-running kickback scandal that has rocked the state-run oil giant Petrobras and the government.
"The survivors now are being manipulated by trial lawyers who in the end will each get millions of dollars more than any of individual survivors with the exception of Denhollander who is likely to get kickback from Manly for her role in the trial lawyer manipulation," the April email said, The Chronicle reported.
Aspects of value-based arrangements (VBAs), such as a results-based contract, that are in tension with the current federal Anti-Kickback Statute include: Adding to the challenge of moving from volume to value is the fact that these laws often overlap one another, yet have different interpretations, centers of authority, and requirements.
Olympus Corporation of the Americas to Settle Kickback Charges | The United States unit of Olympus admitted it paid bribes to doctors and hospitals to promote sales of its medical devices, and agreed to pay $623.2 million in civil and criminal penalties as part of what prosecutors called the largest-ever settlement under federal antikickback laws.
The exchange between the doctor and Insys was detailed in a federal indictment unsealed on Friday in Manhattan, charging Dr. Freedman, of Mount Kisco, N.Y., and four other New York doctors with participating in a bribery and kickback scheme that prosecutors said sought to increase the drug company's sales and preyed on unwitting patients.
The 157-page criminal complaint made public on Wednesday charts what prosecutors called a "win-win" kickback scheme masterminded by a powerful trio: the former Rio de Janeiro governor, Sérgio Cabral; the recently-ousted head of Brazil's Olympic Committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman; and Mr. Soares, who ran several companies that were awarded multimillion government contracts.
Practice Fusion, once backed by top VCs, pushed doctors to prescribe opioids in kickback scheme According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Practice Fusion solicited and received pay from an (unnamed for now) major opioid company in exchange for using its EHR software to influence doctors in the act of prescribing opioid pain medications. 7.
Then there's their Roma bosses, a mother-and-son team (Isabella Rossellini and Angus Sampson) who control the string of storefront psychic parlors that Charlie runs in Los Angeles and who seem to enjoy dreaming up new ways to exact Old World vengeance on those who try to cheat them out of a kickback.
A crowded courtroom at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard a number of judges on the 11 member panel vigorously question Theodore Olson, an attorney whose mortgage company client PHH Corporation brought the case against the regulator after the CFPB sued the company on allegations it was involved in an illegal kickback scheme.
There are tons of people to blame for this — the drug companies who see no problem jacking up the prices of medicine; the insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers who've created perverse incentives for their businesses; and rent-seeking businesses like the dialysis company DaVita, which stands accused of being part of a good old-fashioned kickback scheme.
Related: How Rikers Island Became the Most Notorious Jail in America The high-rolling president of America's largest municipal jail guard union was arrested on corruption charges in New York City on Wednesday, along with a prominent hedge fund tycoon who is accused of paying the union leader a sizable kickback in exchange for millions worth of investments.
Two executives from the Alabama OPO, for example, were sent to federal prison for a multi-million dollar kickback scheme in which the whistleblower reported being threatened with being "cremated alive," and the Los Angeles OPO was recently found to have interfered with death investigations by coroners and obstructed an investigation by the Los Angeles Times.
The tech on display here is incredible—real rifles, stripped and repurposed with parts that feed into a CO2 gas system to give the appropriate kickback, then loaded with sensors that give information on everything from how hard soldiers are pushing the weapon back into their shoulder for support to how softly they are squeezing the trigger.
I call it a kickback scheme, because it works as follows: Intel raises its margins on its CPUs, forcing Dell to demand that Nvidia and/or ATI accept smaller margins on their GPUs, and then Intel kicks back a portion of the money that was peeled from Nvidia and ATI's share of the pie to Dell by subsidizing their PC marketing efforts.
One BIC advisory board member lobbies for New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management, a trade association whose secretary-treasurer is a convicted racketeer: a lawyer named Ray Shain who was disbarred from practicing law in New York in 2003 after pleading guilty to a bid-rigging, bribery and kickback scheme that defrauded Queens public schools out of an estimated $6.3 million.
However, in December, Brazilian prosecutors blew the lid off another kickback scheme, this time in the oil trading division of Petrobras, which also implicated commodities trading giants Glencore PLC, Vitol SA and Trafigura AG. In March, Reuters reported that Petrobras officials had known of problems in its oil trading operations for years, although the company failed to quickly identify suspects and sideline them from operations.
" Khary Rigg, a behavioral health services researcher at the University of South Florida, argued there was a profit motive for patient brokers and treatment facilities to perpetuate a cycle of drug use: "The financial incentive is to get them to use, have a positive urine test, then now they can go back to the treatment center, and the [broker] or sober home owner gets a kickback from the treatment center.
The reason why Republicans were able to take over the House in 2010, and the reason why they were able to win something like the 2010 special election in Massachusetts, a state that Obama won by 26 points a year earlier, is that they had a non-ideological way of arguing that Democrats were cutting all these behind-closed-door deals like the Cornhusker Kickback, that they were rushing this bill out.
At its biennial convention Saturday, the PMDB will loosen its alliance with the administration, which has been roiled by the ongoing kickback scandal around state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. While avoiding an outright break with Rousseff, PMDB officials say they will vote on measures intended to give individual party lawmakers more freedom to rebel against Rousseff initiatives and ultimately vote in favor of ousting the president, who faces impeachment proceedings because of accounting irregularities in the government budget.
The six key elements of the plan are: lower drug prices for seniors; eliminate foreign governments' "free-riding" and pressure them to pay more for American drugs; require drug advertisements to include the cost; prohibit "gag clauses" that prevent pharmacists from telling patients that paying cash for a drug may be cheaper than buying it through insurance; prevent "pay-for-delay" and other strategies that keep generics off the market; review the existing "rebate system" and assess if it constitutes a form of illegal kickback.

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