Archive for April, 2026
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Filipino couple among those charged in hospice care fraud allegedly taking money from patients who were not dying
Nita Almuete Paddit Palma, 76, a thrice-convicted health care fraudster now incarcerated at a federal prison in Seattle, and her husband, Adolfo Catbagan, 68, of Glendale, are charged in an 11-count indictment with operating at least three fraudulent hospice care facilities, according to an April 2 press release from the U.S. Department of Justice Central District of […]
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Cinelle Barnes’s memoir pieces together her past as she recovers from brain trauma
“A Way Home: A Memoir of Losing Yourself and the Beauty of Returning” by Cinelle Barnes is a heart-wrenching memoir about remembering and rebuilding a life after everything known disappears in a flash. In 2023, Barnes is writing a travelogue about journeying home to the Philippines after a 20-year separation when she suffers a traumatic […]
