Sunny Hostin, the co-host of that awful show “The View,” is not having such a great new year and it’s only just started. Her husband, Dr. Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin, an orthopedic surgeon, is now being accused of participating in insurance fraud. Tsk, tsk, tsk. In fact, he’s named along with 200 other defendants in the largest RICO case to ever be filed in the state of New York. Everybody wants to leave behind a legacy, don’t they? What a way to be remembered.
Hostin, according to The Daily Mail, is being accused of receiving kickbacks by performing surgeries on patients and then billing a company fraudulently that provides insurance coverage for taxi companies along with Uber and Lyft drivers.
‘Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries,’ the lawsuit, filed on December 17, claims. The insurance firm American Transit was then billed ‘in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.’ Hostin’s attorney Daniel Thwaites told DailyMail.com his client ‘denies each and every allegation’ and called the lawsuit a ‘blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier’. Sunny Hostin’s surgeon husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin is one of 200 defendants accused of fraudulently billing insurance company American Transit for unnecessary medical services in exchange for kickbacks
The lawsuit, obtained by DailyMail.com, identifies Dr. Hostin as owner of Hostin Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, located in midtown Manhattan. The couple has been married since 1998 and currently live in a 10-bedroom, 10-bathroom estate in Purchase, New York. They have a 22-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter.
‘It is meant to intimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,’ Thwaites explained. He then said that Hostin has an “impeccable” record, further stating, “American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit without ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any concerns to his lawyers.”
‘The real story here is about an insurance carrier abusing the legal system to limit and restrict health care benefits to its insureds and their passengers, and write off its proper obligations,’ Thwaites added.
The good doctor’s blushing bride, Sunny, a former attorney and prosecutor, is currently serving as the senior legal counsel and analyst for ABC News, along with her co-hosting duties.
She is no stranger to talking about her marriage on The View. Back in February, co-host Whoopi branded her a ‘b****’ when Hostin openly slammed her husband’s cooking live on air. She has also shared painful experiences including about her struggles with infertility, before she and her husband welcomed their children, a 22-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter.
In January 2021, she revealed the tragic news that her husband’s parents, both physicians, had died of COVID over the holiday break. In the suit filed in federal court in Brooklyn, Dr. Hostin, 54, is named as the owner of Hostin Orthopaedics, working out of an eighth-floor office on Lexington Avenue close to Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal.
And that’s not all, folks. The insurance company is also claiming that Dr. Hostin was given an “investment” interest in Empire State Ambulatory Surgery Center in exchange for referring patients to the practice. Corruption knows no bounds.