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...lawsuit was filed last week in U.S. District Court aimed at disallowing companies from distributing term papers online. In the suit--believed to be the first of its type in the nation--Boston University alleges that online term paper distributors violate federal law by engaging in mail and wire fraud, and violate a state law prohibiting the sale of term papers and other research materials. A representative of one of the companies named in the suit, speaking to The Crimson on grounds of anonymity, claims in its defense that B.U. is attempting to abridge its First Amendment rights by censoring...
...Chicago last week a 73-count indictment was returned against a hospice operator charged with bilking Medicare and others of $28 million for services to the terminally ill that were never delivered. In Detroit a nursing home that was part of a chain whose owner was convicted of Medicaid fraud 17 years ago was cited again last year for bad hygiene, inattention to frail residents and incompetent staff. In Texas attorney general Dan Morales has filed 50 lawsuits against nursing homes this year for neglect and failure to medicate...
...California a team of lawyers specializing in fraud has begun to investigate what's killing people in the state's 1,400 nursing homes. In Washington, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate's Special Committee on Aging, last week dispatched three investigators from the General Accounting Office to California to pore over data, confer with state officials and visit suspect nursing homes. One of their first stops was Creekside (now operating as Vacaville Rehabilitation and Care Center), which denied the investigators access to medical records--until they returned with a subpoena. Grassley calls the California data "troubling...
...which operated the Tucker House nursing home. The nursing-home company settled the case for $600,000, sent condolences to the families of the three residents and--perhaps most important--set off probes by law firms around the country seeking similar evidence of poor care and the resulting fraud. Their plan: to present evidence of widespread fraud to the Justice Department in the hope that the government will take the lead in the case and share in any damages awarded...
...university claims that these companies are violating statues on mail and wire fraud by selling and distributing fraudulent term papers via these methods...