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		<title>Pennsylvania Judges Imprisoned For Kickback Scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two judges have each agreed to plead guilty and serve more than seven years in prison for receiving kickbacks from a private juvenile detention facility. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, both of the Luzerne County Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania, were alleged to have received over $2.6 million for decisions from the bench that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2010/02/09/pennsylvania-judges-imprisoned-for-kickback-scheme/</link>
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		<title>Eli Lilly Settles For Largest Criminal Fine in US History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 15, 2009, the Department of Justice reported that Eli Lilly and Company has agreed to plead guilty and pay $1.415 billion to resolve civil and criminal allegations.  The resolution includes a criminal fine of $515 million, the largest criminal fine ever imposed on an individual corporation in a United States criminal prosecution. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2010/02/09/eli-lilly-settles-for-largest-criminal-fine-in-us-history/</link>
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		<title>Yale Mismanaged Research Grants; Will Pay $7.6 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 23, 2008, the District of Connecticut United States Attorney’s Office released a settlement by Yale University to pay $7.6 million to resolve False Claims Act and common law allegations.  The school allegedly mismanaged federally funded research grants it was awarded between January 2000 and December 2006 by approximately 30 federal agencies and entities.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2010/02/09/yale-mismanaged-research-grants-will-pay-7-6-million/</link>
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		<title>Dental Management Company Preyed On Vulnerable Children; Will Return $24 Million To Taxpayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States announced on January 20, 2010, the settlement of False Claims Act allegations against FORBA Holdings LLC, a dental management company that provides business management and administrative services to 69 clinics nationwide known as “Small Smiles Centers.”
Under the agreement, FORBA will pay the United States and participating states $24 million, plus interest, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2010/01/27/dental-management-company-preyed-on-vulnerable-children-will-return-24-million-to-taxpayers/</link>
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		<title>Chevron Will Pay Over $45 Million For Underpaying Royalties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 23, 2009, the Department of Justice reported the settlement of a False Claims Act case involving Chevron Corporation, Texaco, Unocal Incorporated and their affiliates (the Chevron companies), for violating the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal and Indian leases. The companies have agreed to pay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2010/01/27/chevron-will-pay-over-45-million-for-underpaying-royalties/</link>
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		<title>Oklahoma Hospital To Pay $13 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 22, 2009, the Department of Justice released the settlement of a False Claims Act case involving St. John Health System of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The health provider has agreed to pay the United States $13,229,348.88 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
Specifically, the United States determined that St. John [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2010/01/27/oklahoma-hospital-to-pay-13-million-to-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations/</link>
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		<title>Three Health Agencies Sued For Using Unqualified ‘Home Health Aides’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 17, 2009, the office of the New York Attorney General announced a $24 million settlement to a False Claims Act lawsuit involving three home health agencies. The agencies utilized hundreds of “home health aides” with little or no required training. These aides were sent to the homes of New York’s elderly, frail and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2009/12/24/three-health-agencies-sued-for-using-unqualified-%e2%80%98home-health-aides%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Pharmaceutical Company Will Pay $21 Million FoR Overpricing Respiratory Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 17, 2009, Bloomberg News reported that Schering-Plough Corp., a drug company, will pay $21.3 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit against it. The settlement stems from a whistleblower lawsuit against several drug companies accused of Medicaid fraud.
The suit alleged that Schering deliberately inflated the average wholesale price it reported to California [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2009/12/24/pharmaceutical-company-will-pay-21-million-for-overpricing-respiratory-drugs/</link>
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		<title>University of Phoenix Caught Cheating Government; Will Pay $78.5 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 14, 2009, Earth Times reported the $78.5 million settlement of a False Claims Act lawsuit against the University of Phoenix. The lawsuit, which was started by whistleblowers, alleged that the University used false statements to obtain an excess of federal student loans and Pell Grant monies. Reportedly, the University was making incentive payments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2009/12/24/university-of-phoenix-caught-cheating-government-will-pay-78-5-million/</link>
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		<title>Texas Hospital Group Pays U.S. $27.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations</title>
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On October 30, 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that McAllen Hospitals has agreed to pay $27.5 million to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act. Between 1999 and 2006, the Texas-based company, which conducts business as South Texas Health System, induced doctors to refer patients to their hospitals through fraudulent payments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.false-claims-act.com/2009/11/03/mcalle/</link>
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