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Corporate overreach, tech abuses, and regulatory capture
Twenty-five months into the Justice Department's case against RealPage and seven landlords, six defendants have settled, one judgment has been entered, and no court has decided when algorithmic pricing becomes…
A Houston laboratory's $36.4 million settlement over kickbacks and unnecessary genetic tests is the latest entry in a Medicare fraud pattern that DOJ and HHS-OIG records show keeps repeating even…
Federal fraud settlements against Medicare Advantage insurers are setting records, but the government's own auditors say upcoding drains far more than enforcers claw back.
Medicare spending on skin substitutes rose from $256 million in 2019 to more than $10 billion in 2024. A pricing rule that paid close to whatever sellers charged built the…
Federal records show Medicare spending on skin substitutes climbed nearly fortyfold to over $10 billion as a pricing formula let relabeled placental tissue be billed at up to $1,450 per…
A decimal-point error in a 2021 FEMA-reimbursed COVID invoice became a million deposit, then a 2022 House seat. Records suggest the cascade now spans a 15-count federal indictment, 25 House…
Federal indictments in Brooklyn, an HHS Inspector General audit, and NYC Comptroller findings now describe the same procurement failure: more than $9 billion spent on asylum-seeker services, 340 no-bid contracts,…
An active-duty Special Forces master sergeant placed 13 wagers totaling $33,034 on a Polymarket contract called "Maduro Out by January 31, 2026" — and walked away with $409,881. The CFTC…
A federal jury just convicted the founders of Done Global of running a $100 million Adderall pipeline through a pandemic-era telehealth loophole. The case is a template for prosecuting venture-backed…
A Brooklyn nonprofit that parlayed New York City’s migrant crisis into nearly $200 million in government contracts is now at the center of a widening federal corruption investigation — one…