Roosevelt Road Re Ltd. et al v. Wingate Russotti Shapiro Moses & Halpern LLP et al: Complaint (‘Workers’ Comp Racketeering’)
Complaint alleging "a widespread fraud scheme to defraud Plaintiffs and others by (i) unlawfully grooming and recruiting construction workers into staging and perpetuating fake construction accidents that occurred in New York; (ii) preparing and collecting documentation as well as submitting, filing, prosecuting and asserting fraudulent workers’ compensation claims and personal injury lawsuits on behalf of such construction workers; (iii) providing or alleging to have provided medically unnecessary and excessive healthcare services to such construction workers; (iv) providing monies directly or indirectly to Defendants and to Claimants to fund the fraud scheme, and/or (v) using the fraudulent diagnoses and medically unnecessary and excessive healthcare services to unlawfully enrich the Defendants and inflate the settlement value of claims and lawsuits" in Roosevelt Road Re Ltd., of Bermuda, and Tradesman Program Managers LLC v. Wingate Russotti Shapiro Moses & Halpern LLP, Philip Russotti, Clifford H. Shapiro, Kenneth Halperin, I. Bryce Moses, Bangel, Cohen & Falconetti, LLP, David J. Bangel, Stephen H. Cohen, Christopher M. Falconetti, NY Ortho, Sports Medicine & Trauma, P.C., Jeffrey Stone Kaplan, MD, Matthew P. Grimm, MD, Joseph Weinstein, D.O., P.C., Joseph Weinstein, DO, Carlos Castro, MD, Andrew Merola, MD, Kolb Radiology P.C., Thomas M. Kolb, MD, Lenox Hill Radiology and Medical Imaging Associates, P.C., RJ Physical Therapist, P.C., Cross Bay Orthopedic Surgery P.C., Peter Tomasello, Jr., DO, NYC Medical & Neurological Offices, P.C., Mehrdad Golzad, MD, Hudson Pro Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine LLC, Roman Isaac, MD, Citimedical I, PLLC, BL Pain Management, PLLC, Pain Physicians NY, PLLC, Leon Reyfman, MD, Boleslav Kosharskyy, MD, Surgicare of Brooklyn, LLC, Integrated Specialty ASC, d.b.a. HealthPlus Surgery Center, LLC; NYEEQASC, LLC, d.b.a. North Queens Surgical Center, Surgicore 5th Avenue LLC, Roosevelt Surgery Center, LLC, d.b.a. Manhattan Surgery Center, John Doe Nos. 1-25, and XYZ Corporation Nos. 1-25 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.