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If Allstate has its way in a recent New Jersey Superior Court case, two East Orange Chiropractors are going to have to come up with a few million dollars to settle up … and maybe more.
Drs. George and Litsa Tsilonis of Allied Trauma and Health Care are facing treble damages for suspicious treatment of about 200 patients in the past three years. After obtaining warrants and seizing medical records pertaining to the chiropractic practice, it took state investigators only six days to file suit against the doctors.
But wait. It gets better. Some of the information investigators had to go on came from back-and-forth accusations made between George and Litsa during a messy divorce. It seems that Litsa moved out of the couple’s house in Bergenfield and took up residence with a gentleman by the name of Carl Love. George accused Litsa of diverting $413,000 of Allied’s assets to Essex Shuttle, conveniently owned by Love. He was also unhappy about the offshore accounts she was setting up in Antigua. Litsa countered with accusations that George took $275,000 from a joint account and wired money to his parents in Greece – without discussing it with her first.
But the couple had problems besides each other. Many of their patients, when interviewed, denied having the chiropractic treatments that insurance companies were billed (and paid) for.
Authorities are alleging paid runners, staged accidents, overbilling and more. Prudential Property & Casualty filed a similar suit against the same pair last year.
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