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Federal Tipoffs Involving Illinois Newsletter for Wednesday June 19, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Acting Ill. U.S. Attorney: Chicago Health Care Company and Its Former Owners to Pay Nearly $2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Lawsuit
ROCKFORD, Illinois, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: A Chicago health care company and its former owners will pay nearly $2 million to the United States and the States of Illinois and Indiana to resolve a civil lawsuit arising from the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid. The settlement resolves allegations that KAREFIRST MANAGEMENT, an independent nurse practitioner group, deve  more

Ill. U.S. Attorney: New Indictment Alleges Aaron Rossi Committed Fraud in COVID-19 Testing
PEORIA, Illinois, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: A grand jury today indicted a Morton, Illinois man, Aaron Rossi ("Rossi"), 40, on six counts of healthcare fraud, one count of mail fraud, and four counts of wire fraud for allegedly defrauding the State of Illinois and public and private health insurance companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic. The indictme  more

Unlocking the Mystery Behind the Performance Decline in a Promising Cathode Material
ARGONNE, Illinois, June 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Insights could help foster electric vehicle batteries with longer driving range and lower cost * * * Scientists have discovered the culprit behind the performance fade in nickel-rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. The team's new analysis method was key to the discovery. The first generation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles has been a   more