Man sentenced to 7 years in prison for $20 million scams against older adults
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 13, 2018
A Las Vegas resident has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay $2.8 million in restitution after pleading guilty to running prize promotion scams that defrauded thousands...
Attorneys general launch national effort to crack down on elder abuse
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 22, 2017
Over the next year, a new initiative will see state attorneys general across the country focusing on strengthening efforts to fight elder abuse, neglect and exploitation in senior living communities and...
Senior living developer avoids EB-5 ban, receivership
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 07, 2017
A Chicago-based senior living developer avoided being barred from the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, and his companies are not going into receivership, after a federal judge on Tuesday denied a request...
President’s clemency order in $205 million case sends message that assisted living fraud is OK, former...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 19, 2020
President Trump’s commutation of the 35-year prison sentence of a woman convicted of orchestrating a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme that involved assisted living facility owners and operators “may...
Big senior living stories of 2020
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2020
A year ago, nobody in the U.S. senior living industry would have predicted that a pandemic would upend everyone’s personal and professional lives in 2020. But COVID-19 undoubtedly was the story of the...
5 big issues in senior living in 2016
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 29, 2016
Looking back on our coverage of the senior living industry and the issues that affected it in 2016, several common themes emerge. Five are detailed in this year-end review.
Two more sentenced in American Senior Communities fraud scheme
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2018
Two more defendants were sentenced Monday for their roles in a $19.4 million fraud, kickback and money-laundering scheme that previously led to prison terms for two former American Senior Communities executives.
Financial official recommends checks and balances after CCRC employee allegedly pockets $118,000
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 06, 2020
The Tennessee Comptroller’s Office is reminding senior living companies and other organizations to include checks and balances in their financial processes to help ensure that fraud doesn’t occur,...
Anti-fraud efforts must include senior living, hearing witness says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 15, 2017
Efforts to stop or prevent the financial exploitation of older adults should include assisted living and continuing care retirement communities, as well as personal care and nursing homes, because residents...
Feds sue to seize $30 million in properties owned by purported senior living developer
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 30, 2017
Federal prosecutors are suing to seize nine properties, worth a total of $30 million, that they say a purported senior living community developer bought with proceeds from a multimillion dollar scheme...