Diagnostic Imaging Group Settles For $15.5M For Medicare Fraud
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Per The New Jersey Law Journal:
"A medical diagnostic company that allegedly billed Medicaid for unnecessary procedures and paid doctor kickbacks agreed to settle three False Claims Act suits for a combined $15.5 million.
"The settlement unsealed Monday, between Diagnostic Imaging Group (DIG) and federal prosecutors in New York and New Jersey, includes $13.65 million to the federal government as well as $1.5 million, $1.07 million and $209,250 payments to the three whistleblowers."
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N.J. Rock Salt Stuck In Port Due To 1920's Maritime Act
Monday, February 17, 2014
Per NorthJersey.com:
"New Jersey transportation officials are hoping that a 40,000-ton shipment of rock salt sitting at a port in Maine can help relieve the short supply available for state highways before the next snowstorm hits.
"But getting the shipment to Port Newark has been frustratingly slow because of the state’s inability so far to obtain a federal waiver of the 1920 Maritime Act, which requires that the shipment arrive on a vessel flying a U.S. flag.
"State Department of Transportation spokesman Joe Dee said Sunday that state officials have been unable to obtain a waiver of what is known as the Jones Act, which requires that shipments from one U.S. port to another be carried by ships flying under a U.S. flag."
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Christie Campaign Gets Green Light To Use Election Funds for Legal Fees
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Per the New Jersey Law Journal:
"New Jersey election law regulators on Tuesday said that Gov. Chris Christie's re-election campaign committee can use unspent funds—and raise more—to pay its legal fees and expenses to comply with document subpoenas in the investigation of last fall's George Washington Bridge access lane closures that crippled traffic.
"Ronald DiFilippis, chairman of the Election Law Enforcement Commission, said spending purpose is legal and that it was important for the campaign to be able to respond to the subpoenas quickly."
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Warrantless Cell Tracking Generally Unconstitutional - State v. Earls
Monday, February 10, 2014
Per The New Jersey Law Journal:
"Police violated a burglary suspect's state constitutional right to privacy when they located him using cellphone tracking information without first obtaining a warrant, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Friday.
The panel said the emergency-aid exception to the warrant requirement did not apply, because in the 15 hours that elapsed between the time the police started the search and when they eventually found the suspect, they had plenty of time to obtain a warrant.
"'Certainly, the officers here were not responding to an open-line 9-1-1 call,' said Appellate Division Judges Anthony Parrillo and John Kennedy. 'Nor had they personally witnessed any indicia of an emergency."
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