Milwaukee real estate developer Boris Gokhman was ordered to pay $90,000 in a civil lawsuit related to his defrauding of Medicaid. The civil forfeiture equals $5,000 each for 18 [tag]fraudulent claims[/tag] submitted to Medicaid.

The civil and criminal cases relate to an [tag]investigation[/tag] of the now defunct Cares R Us Home Health Care Agency Ltd. The company received more than $1 million in Medicaid money for nursing and personal services that were not performed or were not necessary.

Gokhman.s part in the [tag]fraud[/tag] included submitting false time sheets for services never really provided to his parents, who were Cares R Us clients. He claimed that he provided services on 650 consecutive days, when in reality he was traveling in the U.S., Canada, and Caribbean for many of those days. The [tag]fraudulent[/tag] billings brought in $29,000 to the company, of which Boris was paid $12,050.

In September 2004, Boris was sentenced to a year of probation and a fine of $7,500 after pleading guilty in the criminal portion of the case.

Boris, a Russian immigrant, has developed hundreds of apartments and condominiums in the Milwaukee area with his company, New Land Enterprises LLP.

Bill Lueders of Isthmus has broken this story about Decmocratic candidates paying workers less than [tag]minimum wage[/tag] for their work on a [tag]campaign[/tag] to raise the minimum wage.

Here’s the story:

A group that raises money for Democratic Congressional candidates uses a [tag]canvassing[/tag] company that pays some workers submimium wage, in apparent violation of Wisconsin state law, to talk about the need to raise the federal minimum wage, Isthmus newspaper has learned.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), based in Washington, D.C., has hired Grassroots Campaigns, a Boston-based for-profit company with operations in 18 U.S. cities, to conduct canvassing on its behalf. The DCCC’s “New Direction for American” agenda, which provides the talkiing points canvassers are taught to use to solicit contributions, includes a call to “Raise the minimum wage.”

What follows is an article on this topic from Isthmus‘ Sept. 1, 2006 edition, and several suppporting documents.

The handout labelled “[tag]Grassroots[/tag] [tag]Voter Outreach[/tag]” was provided by Miles Kristan, a Madison student who worked for Grassroots Campaigns, soliciting money for the DCCC. Emily Larsen, the regional director for Grassroots Campaigns (her region includes Madison as well as offices in Minnesota, Texas and Colorado) and Wes Jones, the company’s national canvass director, both say that Grassroots Voter Outreach is distinct from Grassroots Campaigns. Jones describes it as a “sister” company that solicits money for nonpolitcal nonprofit groups.

But the terms of employment appear similar, including the stipulation that “A canvasser who does not meet quota will not receive base pay and will instead be paid” a percentage of what he or she collects. The handout specifies that Grassroots Voter Outreach pays a 30% rate to those who do not make quota; Jones and former Madison employees of Grassroots Campaigns say they received a rate of 47%, which could and sometimes did amount to less than minmum wage.

Will the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office fail to take action AGAIN??? Milwaukee Alderman Michael McGee Jackson is officially the father of Kimley Rucker’s child, as proven by a DNA test. 

Kimley is the woman who filed for a domestic violence restraining order against McGee/Jackson because of his abusive behavior.  McGee/Jackson threatened to kill her while in the courtroom for a hearing on the matter.

The child was born on July 8.  McGee/Jackson testified in court that he only had sex with Kimley once, in August of 2005.  That would be impossible if the child was born at full-term.  The child had to be conceived sometime between September and November of 2005, thereby proving that McGee/Jackson’s statements in court were untrue.

Kimley’s attorneys are pushing the District Attorney’s Office to file criminal charges of perjury against McGee/Jackson, but we know how far they’ll get with that.  Previous instances of perjury by McGee/Jackson have been overlooked so far.