Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin, husband of ABC News personality Sunny Hostin, is one of 200 defendants who were named in a massive RICO case filed in New York City just before Christmas.
According to an exclusive report published by The Daily Mail, Hostin and many others have been accused of taking “kickbacks” and submitting fraudulent bills to an insurance company that typically insures Uber and Lyft drivers and cab companies.
The lawsuit, filed December 17, alleges that “Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries,” and then reportedly billed American Transit insurance “in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.”
Daniel Thwaites, an attorney representing Hostin, gave a statement to The Daily Mail, saying that his client “denies each and every allegation” and referring to the suit as a “blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.”
Thwaites further alleged that the insurance company was intentionally “abusing the legal system” in an effort to “restrict health care benefits to its insureds and their passengers, and write off its proper obligations.”
“It is meant to intimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,” Thwaites added. “American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit without ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any concerns to his lawyers.”
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Sunny Hostin, who regularly cohosts ABC’s midday talk show “The View,” also serves as a senior legal correspondent and analyst for the network. She is an attorney who previously worked as a federal prosecutor.
The Media Research Center’s Nick Fondacaro posted a clip from “The View” in which Hostin references her husband’s work, including his alleged attempts to recover payment from health insurance companies by suing them. “[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,” says Hostin.
