$27 million settlement in health fraud case

U.S. Attorney James Santelle has reached a $27 million plea agreement with Rickey Kanter, former CEO of Rikco International in Mequon, resolving allegations of fraud against the Medicare program. The agreement arose out of an investigation that Kanter, doing business as "Dr. Comfort," sold shoe inserts for diabetic patients that were falsely represented and marketed as conforming to Medicare's requirements for those products. (MILWAUKEE BUSINESS JOURNAL, 4/12)