Japan toilet maker unveils 'poop-powered' motorbike

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia


TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's best-known toilet maker on Wednesday unveiled a "poop-powered" motorcycle that can travel as far as 300km on a tank filled with animal waste.

Billed as the world's first waste-powered vehicle, the three-wheeler has a toilet in place of a regular seat and huge paper roll at the back.

But as a young female model climbed aboard for a test drive Wednesday, toilet giant TOTO was quick to point out that she would not supply the "gas".

"The biogas it uses as fuel is not made from human waste. It's made from livestock waste and sewage," Kenji Fujita, a company spokesman, told reporters in a Tokyo suburb.

Kickbacks, Honest Services, and Health Care Fraud after Skilling

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2018589


Joan H. Krause
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law

August 8, 2012

Annals of Health Law, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2012
UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018589

Abstract:    
This essay considers how the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Skilling v. United States, which limited the situations in which mail and wire fraud cases may be premised on violations of the “intangible right to honest services,” has the potential to alter the future of health care fraud litigation. While Skilling is widely perceived to have closed the door to several types of common mail and wire fraud prosecutions, this may not turn out to be the case in health care. In health care, the renewed focus on kickbacks as evidence of an honest services breach instead may dovetail nicely with both the Obama Administration’s emphasis on criminal health care fraud enforcement and the jurisprudence of the Medicare & Medicaid Anti-Kickback Statute. This kind of leverage may prove very difficult for prosecutors to resist, and most certainly will require changes in the way the health law bar approaches common Anti-Kickback concerns.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 10

Keywords: health care fraud, Medicare, white collar crime

Accepted Paper Series


Date posted: March 8, 2012
Suggested Citation
Krause, Joan H., Kickbacks, Honest Services, and Health Care Fraud after Skilling (August 8, 2012). Annals of Health Law, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2012; UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018589. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2018589
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