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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
17 women share emotional experiences during sentencing of fraudulent OB/GYN
CHICAGO (WGN) — Numerous women fought back tears as they recounted stories of how an OB/GYN from Hoffman Estates broke their trust, performed medically unnecessary tests and procedures, and charged their insurance companies for medical procedures that never happened. A total of 17 women spoke inside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago during day 2 of sentencing for Dr. Mona Ghosh Thursday, which was adjourned later that evening and scheduled to continue on June 9 at 9:30 a.m. Previous Coverage: Suburban physician who defrauded insurance companies, Medicaid to be sentenced She faces up to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to health care fraud in July 2024. Nora Kate was one of the women who spoke Thursday. She said she was surprised when the FBI showed up on her front door and told her they were investigating her OB/GYN. '[I was] shocked, bewildered, didn't know. I didn't know any of it. Didn't know what she had done. Didn't know the testing,' Kate said. 'None of it.' Several women, like Kate, told stories of how Ghosh charged their insurance companies for visits that didn't happen. Others described the unnecessary tests and procedures she performed. 'I felt like she supported me. In turn, when I'm finding the medical bills coming back for things that never happened, she fed on my vulnerability, on my weakness,' Kate said. 'This was my first pregnancy so, I wasn't sure what to expect during my prenatal visits,' said Lizbeth, one of the witnesses who spoke Thursday. 'Until I left her office and started to see a new OB/GYN. That's when I learned she was performing unnecessary, invasive testing on me.' Several women shared that they went to Ghosh for a routine pap smear, or cervical cancer screening, and were told results were abnormal. Fearful that they could have cancer, they agreed to get a biopsy. Witnesses said while they were sedated, Ghosh performed other procedures instead, including ones they said have affected their fertility. Ghosh's defense team argued that while some of these situations are health care fraud, others are medical malpractice. The victims' lawyers argued Ghosh's actions constituted both. 'These actually did cause real bodily harm,' said Adam Snyder, an attorney with the Birth Injury Law Alliance representing the victims. 'These women's bodies were used as a vehicle for her fraud.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Forbes
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Bob Seger Returns To Several Billboard Charts Thanks To Sales Gains
Bob Seger's Greatest Hits re-enters the Top Album Sales and Top Rock Albums charts, selling over ... More 2,000 copies and climbing four Billboard rankings this week. Musician Bob Seger performs at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, July 9, 1983. (Photo by) Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band's Greatest Hits is one of the most successful albums in American history. The title can almost always be found on a handful of Billboard rankings, but even the sturdy project occasionally falls off some tallies. While streaming keeps the compilation present on the Billboard 200, it doesn't always sell well enough to remain on rosters dedicated solely to pure purchases. Still, fans of Seger and the group know that if the Greatest Hits collection ever disappears, it won't be gone for long. This week, Greatest Hits by Seger and the Silver Bullet Band returns to the Top Album Sales chart. The ranking lists the full-lengths and EPs that actually sell the most copies throughout the U.S. According to Luminate, the compilation sold just over 2,000 copies during the most recent tracking period. That number represents a more than 21% increase — several hundred additional units — from the previous frame. That figure is large enough to place the compilation in second-to-last place on the sales-only tally. Seger and company land just ahead of another hugely popular compilation: Chronicle by Creedence Clearwater Revival. That uptick in purchases was also enough to bring Greatest Hits back to another ranking. The compilation reenters the Top Rock Albums list at No. 25. That roster is compiled using a methodology that blends both sales and streaming activity, but it appears the increase in fans buying the title alone helped push it back onto the list of the most-consumed rock collections in the country. As Greatest Hits returns to those two rankings, it also rises on yet another pair of Billboard rosters. The set lifts two spots to No. 31 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart. At the same time, it surges seven spaces to No. 138 on the Billboard 200. Luminate reports that while sales of Seger's Greatest Hits jumped by more than 20% week over week, total consumption — which includes streams as well as purchases — grew by only 5.5%. The set shifted 10,650 equivalent units in the U.S. during the tracking week that ended more than seven days ago.
