Conspirators Tried to End HealthSouth Fraud -Ex CFO
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - Former HealthSouth Corp.  finance officer William Owens on Friday testified that ousted  Chief Executive Richard Scrushy promised to take care of his  family if Owens took the blame for the massive accounting fraud  at the health-care company.
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The trial of Richard Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, the chain of rehabilitation hospitals, on fraud charges opens next week.
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HARTFORD, Connecticut  - Former executives at a reinsurance unit of billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc engaged in a fraud that misled investors in American International Group Inc , a U.S. prosecutor told jurors on Monday.
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Former Gov. Don Siegelman and former Health South CEO Richard Scrushy were convicted Thursday in a bribery scheme that derailed Siegelman&#039;s campaign to retake his former office.
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Richard Scrushy's lawyers on Tuesday depicted a main witness against the fired HealthSouth chief as a free-spending, tax-dodging liar who made millions while orchestrating a huge fraud at the rehabilitation giant.
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HealthSouth Corp. has agreed to pay the US government $325 million to settle numerous allegations that the company defrauded Medicare and other government health programs, the Justice Department said yesterday.
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The indicted former chief executive of a health-care financing company whose downfall helped push dozens of hospitals into bankruptcy was arrested yesterday on charges of offering to pay a witness to change her testimony at his coming criminal trial.
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BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 1 -- As HealthSouth Corp. officials began to inflate the company's earnings in 1996, chief executive Richard M.  Scrushy's central question was, "Could I get this past the auditors?" former chief financial officer William T. Owens testified Tuesday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A Federal judge on Tuesday   sentenced former HealthSouth Corp.HLSH.OB Chief Financial   Officer Michael Martin to 36 months in prison, marking the   third time he has been sentenced for his part in a $2.7 billion   accounting scandal that rocked the company.
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The fraud trial of former HealthSouth Chief Executive Richard Scrushy over his role in a massive accounting scandal has been set for Jan. 5, 2005, according to court filings Monday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - Former HealthSouth Corp. Chief  Executive Richard Scrushy tried to convince one of his longtime  lieutenants not to tell the government about accounting fraud  at the company, according to tapes played at his criminal trial  on Thursday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The defense in Richard Scrushy's corporate fraud trial sought to poke holes yesterday in the claims of a key witness who contends the fired HealthSouth chief executive was behind a scheme to overstate earnings.
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Jurors in Richard Scrushy's corporate fraud trial heard a secret recording yesterday in which the former HealthSouth chief instructed aides to tell investigators the company's financial statements were accurate, after warning: ''This conversation did not take place."
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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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BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 10 -- Former HealthSouth Corp. chief executive Richard M. Scrushy told his finance chief who contemplated walking away rather than persist with a $2.7 billion accounting fraud, "Let's don't take ourselves out. Let's don't throw all these people to the wolves. Let's don't destroy this," according to audiotapes played at his fraud trial Thursday.
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HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 7 -- The former chairman and chief executive of the world's largest insurer initiated a deal that led to five former executives being charged with participating in a scheme to manipulate the company's financial statements, a federal prosecutor said Monday during opening...
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A former controller of HealthSouth, Hannibal Sonny Crumpler, was indicted by a grand jury yesterday, accused of participating in a $2.7 billion fraud at the company, according to a federal prosecutor.