The government has unsealed two major civil actions against former Reditus CEO Aaron Rossi and his business partners, alleging a multimillion-dollar billing fraud scheme during the COVID pandemic.
The civil lawsuits were filed in federal court a year ago but remained under seal until this week. WGLT and WCBU were able to view the lawsuits – together over 100 pages – for the first time Wednesday. They offer the clearest picture yet of how the federal and state governments believe Rossi “exploited the pandemic for his own personal benefit and gain,” alleging that he used high-tech software changes and low-tech kickback schemes to become a pandemic profiteer.
“Reditus would ultimately ‘earn’ more than $200 million by defrauding the government and its taxpayers. Aaron Rossi flaunted his newfound wealth during this devastating time by spending millions of dollars on airplanes, supercars such as a Porsche, BWMs, Mercedes Benz, $950,000 on custom tailored suits, $85,000 on Louis Vuitton luggage and clothing, $280,981 on watches and jewelry, and siphoning tens of millions of dollars to himself,” one of the lawsuits reads.
The lawsuits were filed by the U.S. government and the state of Illinois. The lawsuits are jointly filed by two whistleblowers who spotted different parts of the alleged wrongdoing: a medical director at Tri-County Pathology, closely linked to Reditus; and a support tech at a company that handled Reditus’ billing software. When false-claims lawsuits like this...
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