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Annual report: Estonian Refugee Council supported 69,000 people in 2024
ERR
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July 1, 2025
The Estonian Refugee Council (ERC) has published its 2024 annual report, summarizing the organization's key activities over the past year. According to the report, the ERC reached over 69,000 people in 2024, providing immediate assistance in...
DOJ announces health care fraud crackdown that nets 324 arrests, including 60 in Florida
WUSF - Florida
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July 1, 2025
Sixty people in Florida were among 324 charged nationwide in what the Justice Department is calling the nation's largest coordinated takedown of health care schemes. Law enforcement at the state and federal level seized more than $245 million in...
Middlesboro pharmacy 1 of 324 defendants charged in national health care fraud takedown
Middlesboro Daily News - Kentucky
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July 1, 2025
Published 11:39 am Tuesday, July 1, 2025 The Justice Department has announced the results of the 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants for their alleged participation in various health...
10 Visionary Doctors Redefining the Future of Healthcare
First India
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Mumbai: Meet 10 visionary doctors transforming healthcare with innovation, compassion, and groundbreaking approaches—shaping the future of medicine in India and beyond. 1. Dr. Arpit Bansal -Laparascopy & Cancer Surgeon Dr. Arpit Bansal, India’s...
DOJ Charges 324 in Sprawling $14.6 Billion Healthcare Fraud Scams
Security Boulevard
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July 1, 2025
Federal law enforcement agencies this week unveiled expansive and long-running investigations into multiple health care fraud operations that ranged from wound care and opioids to telemedicine and genetic testing, involved transnational criminal...
How Operation Gold Rush was planned and executed, which busted the largest health care fraud in US history
The Economic Times
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July 1, 2025
US federal agents launched Operation Gold Rush in the early months of 2023, a top-secret crackdown that would ultimately dismantle the largest health care fraud scheme in American history. Over two years of silent tracking and coordinated stings...
Züleyxa Izmailova: Government's backward policy crippling Estonian nature and economy
ERR
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July 1, 2025
The Reform Party–led government lacks the courage to make any meaningful decisions that would affect the wealthy or large corporations, while those already struggling are being forced to pay even more in taxes, writes Social Democrat Züleyxa...
Estonians postpone expensive dental procedures as cost of living spirals
ERR
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June 26, 2025
Long waiting lists for orthodontic treatment have been a source of complaints for years, but now those queues are disappearing in Tallinn. Dentists are also seeing a decline in workload, as people tend to postpone aesthetic treatments during...
Justice’s health care fraud takedown nets 324 in $14.6 billion crackdown — the largest in history
Must Read Alaska
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June 30, 2025
The US Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against 324 individuals — including 96 licensed medical professionals — as part of the 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown. The operation spanned 50 federal districts and 12...
More than 300 charged in $14.6 billion health care fraud scheme, Justice Department says
NBC Connecticut
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June 30, 2025
State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people and uncovered nearly $15 billion in false claims in what they described Monday as the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice Department history. Law...
$15 Billion!? FBI Says It's Uncovered 'Largest Health Care Fraud' In American History
Zero Hedge
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Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) on June 30 said that almost $15 billion was reported in losses in the “largest health care fraud” investigation in U.S. history, with officials...
DOJ charges 15 in record $10.6 billion health care fraud case
BNO News
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July 1, 2025
Fifteen people, including two pharmacists, have been charged in what federal officials say is the largest health care fraud and money laundering scheme ever prosecuted in the U.S., with over $10.6 billion in fraudulent claims targeting Medicare,...
Inside Operation Gold Rush, largest health care fraud bust in U.S. history
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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Gerald Quindry was facing a quandary. The 73-year-old retired engineer received a statement last year that Medicare, his health insurance provider, had been billed $15,500 for urinary catheters - but his doctor had never ordered them, and Quindry...
7 Arizona suspects among hundreds charged for $14.6B in health care schemes
KOLD News 13 - Arizona
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June 30, 2025
PHOENIX (AP/AZFamily) — State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people and uncovered nearly $15 billion in false claims in what they described Monday as the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice...
Inside Operation Gold Rush: How a transnational criminal network exploited the U.S. health care system out of $14.6 billion
Fortune
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State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people and uncovered nearly $15 billion in false claims in what they described Monday as the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice Department history. Law...
More Than 300 Charged in $14.6 Billion Health Care Fraud Schemes Takedown
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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FILE - The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a press conference with Attorney General Pam Bondi, May 6, 2025, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — State and...
AP News: More than 300 charged in $14.6 billion health care fraud schemes takedown, Justice Department says
EdGlenToday - Illinois
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WASHINGTON (AP) — State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people and uncovered nearly $15 billion in false claims in what they described Monday as the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice Department...
Department of Justice Announces Takedown of $14.6 Billion Health Care Scheme
Independent Journal Review
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June 30, 2025
The Justice Department has unveiled what it calls the largest coordinated health care fraud takedown in U.S. history, charging over 320 individuals and uncovering nearly $15 million in false claims. Authorities have seized more than $245 million...
Biggest health care fraud crackdown in U.S. history targets $14.6B in alleged scams
Medical Economics
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June 30, 2025
In a move federal officials called “unprecedented,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced charges against 324 individuals — including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and other licensed medical professionals — in...
Federal officials claim to have cracked the biggest health care fraud schemes in history
The Independent
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July 1, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...