The most vulnerable in our society
Posted by Patti on August 24th, 2007 / Print This Post
More problems in NY State. This is about Home Health Service contracts.
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo last week sued and obtained a restraining order against a Pennsylvania based company and its owners for preying on New York’s elderly by selling expensive home health services agreements and not delivering on the promises. Homeward Bound Services of North America and its owners, Marc Orth and Thomas Muldoon, are accused in the lawsuit of using deceptive and fraudulent practices to sell agreements to more than 600 New York seniors. They would promise services meant to help keep the seniors out of nursing homes and in home-based care settings and then didn’t deliver on their agreements.Upon request of the attorney general’s office, a temporary restraining order barring Homeward Bound from selling or renewing agreements across the state was signed on August 14 by state Supreme Court Justice Joseph D. Mintz in Buffalo.
“This company misled and fleeced hundreds of New York state’s elderly citizens with a fraud that won’t be tolerated under my watch,” Cuomo said. “They exploited the fears of elderly consumers of being placed in nursing homes. Too often, disreputable businesses and individuals look to the most vulnerable in our society to line their own pockets, and I am committed to using the full force of my office to come down hard on anybody who tries to get away with it.”
September 5th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
What is going on in NY State? I just read your other article about the phoney certs; gee whiz.