by Joe Bird

You hear about it all too often. Your neighbors tell you about schemes they heard about run by “those guys” or unnamed friends to make lots of easy money. Sometimes it a boast at a party or social event about making millions by evading taxes or calling something it is not and just submitting a few forms to the government and receiving money or tax credits. Sometimes it is just a clever and creative application of lawful ideas, but sometimes not. Sometimes it is too clever, too easy, too good to be true or legal. Witness Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi s...
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by Brian Mahany

Health care fraud costs the government and taxpayers billions of dollars. It is anything but a victimless crime. Fraud means higher insurance premiums causing some people to go without medical care. Because the federal government funds much of health care, taxes also go up when Medicare money is used to pay false claims. Earlier this week, a federal jury convicted one fraudster of submitting over $2 million in false claims to Medicare.

On February 2nd, the jury convicted Detroit area resident Tariq Mahmud of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud a...
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