Author: Justin Lane

The Department of Justice reported last week that it was concluding investigations into a health care fraud scheme based in Miami, Fl. As result of the investigation, the individuals involved the fraud will be spending time behind bars and ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution. The organizations behind the scheme were Caring Nurse Home Health Care Corporation and Good Quality Home Health Care Incorporated. The organizations were used as fronts through which two individuals, Elizabeth Monteagudo and Cristobal Gonzalez would file false claims for payment for health care services to Medicare. The individuals reportedly filed for as...

The Office of the U.S. Inspector General has released its annual report of the Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Justice for 2013. While the Inspector General states that he places no priority on any particular challenge, all are equally pressing, a recurring one from years past is the growing population and costs of the federal American Prison system and the effect it is having on the justice system as a whole. According to the report, growing population sizes and the rising costs of inmate care are resulting in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) budget being...

Ring of Fire’s top stories from the past week. Top Video Promotion for Navy Officer who Admitted to Molesting 13-year-old Daughter Two children of a Navy officer told social workers they had been sexually molested by their father. Social workers investigated the allegations and concluded that they were credible, but when the Navy investigated, the officer was cleared. Now the Navy lieutenant is divorcing his wife, and she and his four children are currently destitute and living in a motel room, The Virginian-Pilot reports. … Read more. Popular Acid Reflux Meds Linked to Vitamin Deficiency A study recently published...

Since 2008, Icelandic citizens have taken to the streets and social media and eventually forced their government to resign en masse. These citizens were responding to corruption and inaction from their government to rein in banks and the incorrigible practices that were leading Iceland into an economic disaster. American mainstream media has been devastatingly silent on its coverage of the affair. Other than a few blog posts, opinion pieces and user-submitted stories, most outlets have failed to cover the Icelandic revolution, called the “pots and pans revolution” for the way citizens took to the streets banging pots and pans...

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly took to discussing an article that appeared on Slate earlier this week that suggested, for some compelling reasons, that our modern notion of Santa Claus could benefit from some revision. Kelly’s commentary was closed-minded and not fitting for a news broadcaster. Aisha Harris’s, the author of the article, argument is that a Santa Claus matching the image of the “white and jolly” St. Nicholas can be confusing for individuals and children of other races. The effect can even be, Harris went so far as to suggest, that a Santa revisited could look a lot more...