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Fired COO may pursue whistleblower, RICO claims

Fired COO may pursue whistleblower, RICO claims

Fired COO may pursue whistleblower, RICO claims

A fired chief operating officer of a nonprofit provider of mental health services may pursue not only whistleblower protection claims but also racketeering claims against employers who, she claimed, had illegally “lured” her into her position at an agency diverting Medicaid funds away from program and into private hands. A federal District Court in Philadelphia has refused to grant motions to dismiss by several of the defendants. Caryn Gratz claimed that she was lured away from her position at the Public Health Management Corporation “in order to gain her unwitting assistance to maintain their scheme to divert funds” away from the employer’s charitable purposes and into the hands of some of...

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