June 2010. Jared Kellner, 15 years old, was looking forward to spending the day at Milwaukee’s Summerfest music festival. As he and a friend walked out of a county owned parking garage, a 27,000 pound slab of concrete fell without warning killing him and injuring his friend and friend’s mother. In an instant, his life […]
Hospice Owner Convicted In $14 Million Medicare Fraud
The owner of a Pennsylvania hospice care business, Matthew Kolodesh, was convicted of Medicare fraud. Jurors found he billed Medicare for over $14 million in claims for patients that were not eligible to receive Medicare benefits. In many cases, the services were billed but never provided. Prosecutors say that Kolodesh spent $9.6 million of hospice […]