Prosecutors Blame Scrushy for Fraud at HealthSouth
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Richard Scrushy's trial on corporate fraud charges opened Tuesday with a prosecutor telling jurors the fired HealthSouth CEO was the driving force behind a conspiracy to overstate earnings in the rehabilitation giant by about $2.7 billion.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A federal judge has scheduled jury selection in the fraud trial of fired HealthSouth Corp. chief executive Richard Scrushy to begin Jan. 5.
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As agents closed in on fraud at HealthSouth Corp. two years ago, then-chief executive Richard Scrushy told an aide ''everybody goes down" if problems with the rehabilitation giant's financial statements become public, according to a secretly made recording played at Scrushy's trial yesterday.
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HealthSouth Corp. HLSH.PK, a  health-care company that is trying to emerge from an accounting  scandal, said on Thursday it agreed to settle for $325 million  federal charges that the company overbilled Medicare.
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Top HealthSouth Corp. executives considered removing Richard Scrushy as chairman but decided against it in the final months of what prosecutors say was a huge fraud conspiracy at the rehabilitation giant, according to testimony Tuesday at Scrushy's trial.
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Troubled HealthSouth (HLSH:OTC-BB - news - research)has agreed to pay $325 million to settle federal charges that it overbilled Medicare.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - The defense team for former  HealthSouth Chief Executive Richard Scrushy on Thursday accused  a former chief financial officer of the health-care company of  being a liar, heavy drinker and womanizer in an attempt to  undermine his potentially damaging testimony.
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Federal prosecutors yesterday announced new perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges against HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard M. Scrushy, accusing the former chief executive of the rehabilitation
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Federal prosecutors added perjury and obstruction of justice charges to the criminal case against fired HealthSouth Corp. chief executive Richard Scrushy on Wednesday under a new indictment in the rehabilitation giant&#39;s accounting scandal.
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Fired HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy actively orchestrated and participated in a scheme to overstate earnings at the rehabilitation giant, a former finance chief testified as prosecutors got to the heart of their multibillion-dollar fraud case against Scrushy.
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Former HealthSouth Corp. president and director James P. Bennett was indicted yesterday for what prosecutors say was a massive fraud at the rehabilitation giant, even as the trial of former chief executive Richard Scrushy continued.
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The trial of Richard Scrushy got under way on Tuesday, with a prosecutor calling Mr. Scrushy the mastermind of an accounting fraud at the hospital chain he founded.
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Fired HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy made millions off a seven-year scheme to overstate earnings by about $2.7 billion as investors large and small suffered, a prosecutor told jurors yesterday as testimony opened in Scrushy's corporate fraud trial.
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Lawyers defending former HealthSouth Corp. chief executive Richard M. Scrushy attacked the credibility of the prosecutors' star witness Friday, painting him as an egomaniac and an opportunist who grew cozy with the FBI to try to save himself from a long prison term.
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Former HealthSouth Corp. chief executive Richard M. Scrushy instructed his top finance officers to "fix the numbers" in the summer of 1996 to make the company's results meet Wall Street estimates, touching off a $2.7 billion accounting fraud, a co-founder of the company testified Wednesday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - Former HealthSouth Corp. Chief  Executive Richard Scrushy never met with more than one or two  people at a time to discuss accounting that prosecutors allege  was fraudulent, HealthSouth's former chief financial officer  said on Monday.
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Law enforcement authorities are stepping up an attack on health-care fraud that they say costs taxpayers more than $60 billion each year.