Law360, New York (October 05, 2006) -- Prosecutors took health maintenance organization Amerigroup Corp. and its Chicago-based subsidiary, Amerigroup Illinois, to federal court on Wednesday, charging them with bilking millions of taxpayer dollars while denying care to pregnant women and the seriously ill in a bid to pocket higher profits.
The allegations stem from a whistleblower lawsuit filed against the companies by Cleveland Tyson, the former vice president of government relations at Amerigroup Illinois....
