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SoCal Doctor Charged With Stealing $150 Million From Federal Covid Program

An Orange County doctor was charged with stealing around $150 million from a federal program providing COVID-19 health services to uninsured patients.

Anthony Hao Dinh, 64, from Newport Coast operated clinics in Westminster and Garden Grove. He is a licensed doctor of osteopathy who was an ear, nose and throat specialist, as well as a facial plastic surgeon, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Dinh allegedly stole millions of dollars by submitting claims for reimbursement under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s COVID-19 Uninsured Program.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides claims reimbursement to healthcare providers for testing, treating or administering vaccines to uninsured patients for COVID.

From July 2020 to March 2021, Dinh allegedly submitted false claims for treating patients who were already insured, services not actually rendered, and services that were not medically necessary, officials said.

“As a result of these false and fraudulent claims, HRSA made payments to defendant Dinh, through [his medical] practices, in the approximate amount of $150 million,” according to court documents.

Officials said this is the “largest fraud scheme in the nation targeting the HRSA COVID-19 Uninsured Program uncovered at this time.”

Dinh is also accused of submitting around 65 fraudulent loan applications seeking nearly $8 million. The programs disbursed around $2.8 million in funds to Dinh.

Dinh was charged with 12 counts of wire fraud, five counts of money laundering (with two of those charges alleging the transfer of more than $11 million to personal stock trading accounts) and one count of obstructing justice.

Dinh was released on a $7 million bond. An arraignment hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30 in the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/orange-county-doctor-allegedly-stole-150-million-federal-covid-program/

Ex-Goldman analyst charged with insider trading, allegedly tipped off friends and faces 20 years behind bars

Anthony Viggiano, 26, who worked as an associate at Goldman’s asset and wealth management division has been charged with securities fraud.

A former analyst at Goldman Sachs was charged with leaking insider information about mergers and acquisitions to his friends — who then allegedly used the tips to make stock purchases that netted them nearly $500,000, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Thursday.

Anthony Viggiano, 26, of Baldwin, LI, worked as an associate at Goldman’s asset and wealth management division after a stint at Blackstone, according to Bloomberg News.

He and three others have been charged with securities fraud.

The indictment does not specify which firms employed Viggiano, but sources familiar with the investigation told Bloomberg News that he worked at Goldman from February of last year until July of this year.

Prior to working for Goldman, Viggiano quit his job at investment banking giant Blackstone after the company learned he had been trading without pre-clearance, according to Bloomberg News.

A Goldman Sachs spokesperson told The Post: “The allegations in the indictment are egregious.”

“The firm has zero tolerance for this kind of behavior, which violates our standard of conduct and our business principles,” the spokesperson said.

“We continue to fully cooperate with the government on this matter.”

A Blackstone spokesperson told The Post: “We make crystal clear to every employee through our extensive compliance and training procedures that we have absolutely zero tolerance for the behavior alleged, and we are fully cooperating with the authorities.”

“This individual (Viggiano) was a junior analyst in a non-investment, finance function who was briefly employed for less than seven months and left two years ago,” the Blackstone spokesperson said.

According to the indictment, Viggiano used “material nonpublic information” he learned by virtue of his positions at Blackstone and Goldman to enrich himself and his friends.

Viggiano allegedly provided tips to Stephen Forlano, 27, a college buddy living in Tampa, according to the indictment.

Forlano, an analyst at a real estate firm, allegedly made stock purchases which netted him $114,000 based on confidential information he received from Viggiano, according to the indictment.

https://www.skynews.com.au/business/exgoldman-analyst-charged-with-insider-trading-allegedly-tipped-off-friends-faces-20-years-behind-bars/news-story/a2702ddf42500102c752700deb38bf9c

Merrick Garland: “We Do Not Have One Rule For Republicans and Another Rule For Democrats”

US Attorney General Merrick Garland sat down for a rare, one-on-one interview with “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley of CBS News.

They discussed the ongoing persecution of Trump in the middle of a presidential election, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.

Merrick Garland is the most radical, corrupt and dangerous attorney general in US history.

Garland’s DOJ indicted President Trump TWICE on junk charges while shielding Hunter Biden from serious tax, FARA and money laundering charges (Hunter has since been indicted on a gun after major backlash).

He has prosecuted and thrown the book at more than 1,000 J6ers. Many J6ers have been held in inhumane conditions in the DC gulag without a trial date. Peaceful, non-violent J6ers are facing years in prison for the ‘crime’ of wandering around the Capitol building for a few minutes while ignoring Antifa and BLM terrorists.

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years even though he wasn’t even at the Capitol on January 6!

Garland has locked up elderly pro-life activists for protesting at abortion clinics while ignoring left-wing terrorists bombing pro-life facilities.

Merrick Garland had the gall to claim his DOJ doesn’t have two sets of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

“We do not have one rule for Republicans and another rule for Democrats. We don’t have one rule for foes and another for friends. We don’t have one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless, for the rich or for the poor, based on ethnicity. We have only one rule; and that one rule is that we follow the facts and the law, and we reach the decisions required by the Constitution, and we protect civil liberties,” Merrick Garland said.

“Are you essentially saying as attorney general to the American people, “Trust me”?” Scott Pelley asked Merrick Garland.

“Well, in the end, I suppose it does in the end come down to trust. But it’s not just me. It’s decades of the– of the norms of this department that are part of the DNA of the career prosecutors who are running the investigation and supervising the investigations that you’re talking about,” Garland said.

Scott Pelley actually called out Merrick Garland for indicting Trump during a presidential election.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/merrick-garland-we-do-not-have-one-rule/

Newsom to Appoint Laphonza Butler, President of EMILY’s List, to Fill Feinstein’s Senate Seat

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) will appoint Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein’s vacant Senate seat.

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, according to a person familiar with the decision.” Politico reported.

Dianne Feinstein died Thursday night at the age of 90. She was the longest-serving woman in the US Senate.

Feinstein was also one of the most corrupt Senators, and that is saying a lot. She served on the Senate Intelligence Panel yet she was caught with a Chinese spy on her payroll — a man she had employed and paid for over 20 years.

Last month on “Meet the Press,” Newsom said he would make an “interim appointment” and suggested he would choose a black woman to replace Feinstein.

California will now have two Senators who were not elected by the people.

Newsom previously chose Alex Padilla to fill Kamala Harris’s senate seat.

Alex Padilla is a crooked Democrat politician who has been swimming in the California swamp for decades.

Republicans on the House Oversight and House Administration Committees previously demanded an investigation into Alex Padilla over a “highly questionable” taxpayer-funded $35 million no-bid contract his office gave to a firm linked to the Biden campaign.

Padilla’s office took grant money from a Coronavirus stimulus package and funneled it to the Biden-linked firm to influence the federal election.

“As you know, the use of HAVA funds for voter contact is a violation of the law,” Republican lawmakers wrote. “According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, HAVA grants cannot be used to get out the vote or encourage voting.”

“Secretary Padilla’s decision to fast-track a no-bid contract to a pro-Biden firm raises serious ethical and legal questions and we must have answers immediately,” GOP Rep. Comer said in a statement to Fox News. “It appears taxpayer funds were illegally allocated by Padilla’s office to enable Democrat operatives to contact voters and potentially have access to sensitive voter information.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/newsom-appoint-laphonza-butler-president-emilys-list-fill/