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Luxurious Vehicles and Exotic Vacations Paid for by Stolen Money Intended for Surgeons(WNY News Now) NEW YORKA, NJ — A man who took advantage of his job as a medical billing agent was punished for embezzling more than $1.1 million meant for surgeons who treat injured workers under the Workers' Compensation Law in New York.Today, Amrish Patel, 62, of Monroe Township, New Jersey, was found guilty and sentenced by New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang of stealing over $1.1 million that was supposed to be paid directly to physicians who treated injured workers under the New York State Workers' Compensation Law. By submitting fabricated claim forms to the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), Patel, who worked as a billing assistant at an orthop...

(WNY News Now) HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry said today that more than 250 customers affected by illegal rent-to-own agreements with Vision Property Management had received more than $800,000 in restitution.Customers who have returned a completed questionnaire to the Office of Attorney General will receive a reparation check as part of this settlement. Checks for those customers should arrive in the coming weeks; they have already been notified. As directed by the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, over 250 customers were given properties under rent-to-own agreements with Vision Property Management in 2021 and 2022. Customers who were already deeded homes did not receive the payments.Defendants Alexander and Antonio Szkaradek, the architects of the Vision sche...

(WNY News Now) A data breach at National Amusements, a global movie theater operator, exposed sensitive information of over 23,000 New York employees, prompting a $250,000 settlement and cybersecurity reforms.NEW YORK New York Attorney General Letitia James on Fridaysecured $250,000 from a global movie theater operator, National Amusements, Inc. (National Amusements), that operates movie theaters in the Bronx and on Long Island for failing to protect their former and current employees and contractors personal information. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) determined that National Amusements failed to implement strong data security, which left it vulnerable to a data breach that compromised the information of more than 23,000 New York employees. The OAG s inv...