Last month a prominent Houston lawyer was indicted for facilitating a multi-million dollar tax fraud. Federal prosecutors say that Carlos Kepke conspired with a billionaire hedge fund manager and defrauded the IRS of taxes on $225,000,000.00 in capital gains. According to the indictment, from 1999 to 2014, Kepke helped hedge fund owner Robert Smith “create […]
Cryptocurrency Scams and Cryptocurrency Investment Losses
As I rewrite this post (April 2021), most of the major cryptocurrencies are at record highs. But the volatility in these investments also remains at record levels. That means you could see a huge gain in just 24 hours or see your retirement savings wiped out within a day. We have nothing against folks investing […]
Doctor, Do No Harm – Dentist Charged with Breaking Teeth
One of the primary tenets of the Hippocratic Oath is the promise to “do no harm.” Evidently a dentist outside of Milwaukee never got that memo. Recently a Wisconsin federal grand jury indicted Dr. Scott Charmoli and charged him with chipping healthy teeth of his patients simply so he could apply expensive crowns. According to […]
Reverse Mortgage Mogul Facing Prison
We get a lot of angry calls from family members of elderly homeowners who feel tricked by false advertisements from reverse mortgage lenders. We still remember those TV commercials by Tom Selleck touting all the benefits of reverse mortgages without disclosing the risks. Finally, we have some good news to report. The government is pushing […]
PFAS – Are Businesses Lying to Us?
There is an interesting drama unfolding in sleepy Burlington, Vermont. It hasn’t attracted much media attention but it should. A company’s own in house lawyer says a plastic manufacturer is lying about dangerous PFAS contamination in rural Vermont and other locations throughout the country. This story begins in in the 1970’s but we will pick […]
Former Suntrust Broker Steals Life Savings of Elderly Victim
Ex M&T, Suntrust Broker Indicted We hate these stories. Financial professionals that steal from the vulnerable and the elderly. Earlier this month a federal grand jury charged former stockbroker Eddy Blizzard with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The charges don’t reflect the depravity of Blizzard’s alleged actions. Prosecutors say that he took an elderly […]
Whistleblower Rewards for False Credentials (Medicare Fraud)
In order to get paid by Medicare, Medicaid or Tricare, healthcare professionals must be properly credentialed. When you go to see the an orthopedic surgeon, you assume she is a fully licensed and credentialed physician. Unfortunately, some shady healthcare providers cut corners and illegally use healthcare workers without proper credentials. That hurts both taxpayers and […]
Maine PFAS Lawsuit – What Others Are Saying
It took less than a month before the national legal media began focusing on our landmark class action lawsuit against Maine papermills for the contamination of drinking water in rural Maine. Potentially many thousands of Maine households are drinking water contaminated with per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). According to an article in the National Law Journal, […]
Uber Goes to Supreme Court in Bid to Undo UberBlack Drivers Win
Ali Razak, Kenan Saban i and Khaldoun Cherdoud are all UberBlack drivers in Pennsylvania. In 2016 they filed suit claiming that they were misclassified as independent contractors. (We brought similar suits in 2016 in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin on behalf of Uber drivers.) Whether or not a driver is classified as an employee or independent […]
BREAKING NEWS – Maine PFAS Legislation Clears Judiciary Committee
For much of the afternoon, members of the Maine Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary debated two virtually identical bills designed to extend the time period for victims of PFAS contamination to seek damages. PFAS is a family of similar chemical substances known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Under the proposed PFAS legislation, any […]
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