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Lester Stockett of Medellin, Colombia, owner & CEO of Video Doctor USA, Telemed Health Group LLC, & Telemed Health Group LLC, pled guilty for his role in a $400 MILLION+ government #HealthcareFraud scheme.
I wonder if it came out of the #ProstheticMafia investigations in Brazil.
I wonder if it came out of the #ProstheticMafia investigations in Brazil.
It was definitely a global scheme, but I'm not sure if any of the people involved link back to the Brazil investigations (some of which are also being investigated here) 
Hmmm, yet another separate global scandal involving medical equipment sales and Brazil #HealthcareFraud.
They said more than 20 orgs may have been part of a bribery "cartel," Looks like they've been known as the #ProstheticMafia.
Have you tracked this one @DawsonSField?
They said more than 20 orgs may have been part of a bribery "cartel," Looks like they've been known as the #ProstheticMafia.
Have you tracked this one @DawsonSField?
Here's a 2017 article from an orthopedic website. Ohhh, lordy, it looks like there are tapes! Undercover tapes of bribery participants offering secret commissions to a reporter posing as a surgeon.
ryortho.com/2017/04/the-ca…
ryortho.com/2017/04/the-ca…
There were also accusations that device distributors were paying commissions to surgeons who used their products and "and often performed unnecessary replacement surgeries."
Looks like a few companies settled w US DOJ & SEC in 2017 for violating the FCPA.
#ButNothingsHappening
Looks like a few companies settled w US DOJ & SEC in 2017 for violating the FCPA.
#ButNothingsHappening
