Writing Tuesday for the Daily Mail, Shawn Cohen dropped a bombshell that the orthopedic surgeon husband of walking Notable Quotable and ABC’s The View co-host Sunny Hostin — Dr. Manny Hostin — “is among nearly 200 defendants named in one of the largest RICO cases ever filed in New York...accused or getting kickbacks by performing surgery and fraudulently billing a company that insures taxi companies and Uber and Lyft drivers.”
The claim, filed back on December 17 “seeking more than $450 million in damages,” alleged Dr. Hostin “knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services,” which his attorney vehemently denies and blasted as “meritless” crusade “by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.”
Citing the claim, Cohen added “[t]he insurance firm American Transit was...billed ‘in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions’” for the health professionals.
He later continued:
American Transit claims ‘rampant’ insurance fraud is endemic in New York State thanks to its ‘No-Fault Law’ under which insurers must pay up to $50,000 for medical expense for people injured in road accidents.
‘These substantial possible no-fault recoveries can incentivize providers with ill intent to over-diagnose, over-treat, and over-bill to recover the most money for themselves,’ American Transit said in a statement.
The law was introduced in 1974 ‘in the wake of rapidly rising automobile insurance costs and when accident victims were experiencing long delays in compensation,’ American Transit says in the suit.
But taxis and ride-share vehicles are now required to pay up to $200,000 – four times the coverage for private drivers.
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The insurance company claims Hostin was given an ‘investment’ interest in Empire State Ambulatory Surgery Center in exchange for referring a ‘steady stream’ of patients.
‘Empire State ASC issued regular payments to or for the benefit of Hostin, which, in fact, were illegal kickbacks for referrals,’ the court papers claim.
As examples the insurance company claims Hostin...saw two patients in January 2023 who were involved in ‘low-impact’ collisions that should have caused ‘no more than soft-tissue injuries’.
Our Nick Fondacaro has made sure to repeatedly mention Hostin’s husband and that his profession, combined with her lucrative TV career, make for a lavish lifestyle. Despite that, she’s insisted she’s entitled to reparations as an African-American...even though her ancestors were slave owners.
Last month, Hostin defended those celebrating the murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO allegedly by far-left hearthrob Luigi Mangione and also her husband’s work because he “operates on someone even though they don't have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work that he's been trained his whole life to do.”
Sunny Hostin's husband has been named in a massive insurance fraud RICO case. WACTH: Hostin implicates her husband in such a scheme: "[He] operates on someone even though they don't have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work..." pic.twitter.com/P2ZvLdmhzt
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 7, 2025
In February 2023, she insisted she, as a multi-millionaire with an orthopedic surgeon, was “oppressed.” A month earlier, she blasted the notion of judging someone based on their character instead of their skin color.
And, on Christmas Eve, Fondacaro had a year-in-review look at nine moments when Hostin fanned the flames of racial division.
It turns out, according to this lawsuit, her husband was fanning the flames of class division.
