8 charged in workers' compensation kickback scheme

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Eight people are facing federal charges in San Diego in what prosecutors call a kickback scheme that involved tens of thousands of dollars in bribes and $25 million in improper workers' compensation claims.

U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said Tuesday that the indictments are the first in a wave of charges targeting workers' compensation fraud.

Authorities arrested five people Tuesday, including a radiologist and a chiropractor. Six companies are also charged.

The FBI says the scheme resulted in overprescribed services, higher prices and unfair competition. Duffy says patients were unwitting.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b3a0b9e599334399962812c5449c5107/8-charged-workers-compensation-kickback-scheme

[LiberalArkie]

1. Oh Please let there be some Republican officials involved. Please!!

[yeoman6987]

2. Whoever is involved should never see daylight again

How stupid are thes fraudsters? They know the program is looked at with suspicion already and they go and do this to give Repugs credibility. Ugh!

[LiberalArkie]

3. That is why I was thinking it might be a Republican politician.

[yeoman6987]

5. Good point. Let's hope.

I did ready you put that earlier. I always respond with emotion the first time...brain later.

[lonestarnot]

6. I would predict that it is.

Their modus operandi.

[marble falls]

4. But privatization works out so well everywhere else.