Sunny Hostin, co-host of “The View,” is not getting her New Year off to a good start. It seems her husband, Emmanuel, who is an orthopedic surgeon, is being accused of insurance fraud. In fact, he’s listed among a list of 200 defendants that have been named in what is being called the largest RICO case ever filed in the state of New York. I mean, if the guy ever wanted to go down in history, he might get his wish. Heck of a way to do it though.
Dr. Hostin, along with many of the other individuals listed in the case, are being accused of receiving kickbacks by performing surgeries and then fraudulently billing a company that provides insurance for taxi companies, Uber and Lyft drivers as well.
Here’s more from The Daily Mail:
‘Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries,’ the lawsuit, filed on December 17, claims. The insurance firm American Transit was then billed ‘in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.’ Hostin’s attorney Daniel Thwaites told DailyMail.com his client ‘denies each and every allegation’ and called the lawsuit a ‘blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier’. Sunny Hostin’s surgeon husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin is one of 200 defendants accused of fraudulently billing insurance company American Transit for unnecessary medical services in exchange for kickbacks
The lawsuit, obtained by DailyMail.com, identifies Dr. Hostin as owner of Hostin Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, located in midtown Manhattan. The couple has been married since 1998 and currently live in a 10-bedroom, 10-bathroom estate in Purchase, New York. They have a 22-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter.
‘It is meant to intimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,’ Thwaites remarked. He then stated that Hostin has an “impeccable” record, going on to add, “American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit without ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any concerns to his lawyers.”
‘The real story here is about an insurance carrier abusing the legal system to limit and restrict health care benefits to its insureds and their passengers, and write off its proper obligations,’ Thwaites continued.
Sunny, who once worked as an attorney and former prosecutor, is the senior legal correspondent and analyst for ABC News, along with co-hosting the worst television talk show ever produced.
She is no stranger to talking about her marriage on The View. Back in February, co-host Whoopi branded her a ‘b****’ when Hostin openly slammed her husband’s cooking live on air. She has also shared painful experiences including about her struggles with infertility, before she and her husband welcomed their children, a 22-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter.
In January 2021, she revealed the tragic news that her husband’s parents, both physicians, had died of COVID over the holiday break. In the suit filed in federal court in Brooklyn, Dr. Hostin, 54, is named as the owner of Hostin Orthopaedics, working out of an eighth-floor office on Lexington Avenue close to Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal.
It seems the Hostin family is simply allergic to telling the truth. As it turns out, the insurance company is saying that Hostin was given an “investment” interest in Empire State Ambulatory Surgery Center in exchange for referring patients to the facility.
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