The startlingly unethical antics of ventilator manufacturers – Raw Story

Earlier this year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Carolina announced that a company called ResMed had agreed to pay more than $37 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it illegally paid kickbacks to promote sales of equipment used to treat sleep apnea. The case did not receive much attention at the time, but ResMed, which also produces ventilators, is now one of the companies involved in the controversy over the distribution of equipment that hospitals desperately need to save lives during the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/the-startlingly-unethical-antics-of-ventilator-manufacturers/

Trump Administration Invites Health Care Industry to Help Rewrite Ban on Kickbacks - The New York Times

The goal is to open pathways for doctors and hospitals to work together to improve care and save money. The challenge will be to accomplish that without also increasing the risk of fraud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/us/politics/trump-health-care-kickbacks-medicare-medicaid.html

New Details Alleged in Scheme to Make Millions Off First Border Wall in Texas — ProPublica

The kickback scheme was allegedly hashed out over weeknight drinks at a steakhouse in a border county in south Texas. Amid surf and turf and expensive scotch, a Hidalgo County official said he would meet with contractors in the clubby confines of the restaurant in a strip mall in McAllen. There, Godfrey Garza Jr., director of the county's drainage district, cajoled company executives to hire a firm owned by his family .....
https://www.propublica.org/article/godfrey-garza-jr-dannenbaum-engineering-texas-border-wall-kickback#139812