Opinion ID: 4511971
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Mrs. Rose

Text: Mrs. Rose, as CFO, was number three in rank and oversaw FWR’s financial affairs. Mr. Rose was the CEO and main protagonist 2 of the deceitful business practices. Mrs. Rose “was very involved” in discussions about how much money was being collected at FWR clinics. She attended the weekly executive-team meeting along with Mr. Rose, Sanders, and others. The participants regularly discussed how to inflate billings on existing clients, and Mr. Rose would often become very upset when he learned that a clinic wasn’t hitting its numbers. Despite Mrs. Rose’s steep involvement with the finances, she didn’t interact much with FWR’s clinical side, and she didn’t submit the OWCP bills for reimbursement. When Mrs. Rose gave one of FWR’s doctors, Andrea Smith, an oral evaluation, Rose told Smith that one of “her objectives must be tied to profit” and that, going forward, she would be evaluated on how much billing revenue she brought in. Mrs. Rose informed Smith that Smith would still get a raise, but that, in the future, her salary would be tied to her clinic’s numbers. Rose acknowledged that Sanders had already spoken with Smith about increasing billings. Rose also signed the written evaluation that admonished Smith for “not maximiz[ing] patient treatments.” On July 11, 2013, the government served search warrants at some of the clinics. Immediately, Rose called Cruise (the COO at the time) at his home and ordered him to go to the office. Once he arrived, investigators questioned him. Cruise called Mrs. Rose after leaving the office and filled her in. Wasting 2 Trial witnesses suggested that Mr. Rose ring-led the fraudulent scheme at FWR. Among many other things, he pressured employees to maximize billing and browbeat them into falsifying documents. And he fed the company’s culture of excessive focus on billing and of falsifying OWCP claims. 5 Case: 17-20492 Document: 00515327502 Page: 6 Date Filed: 03/02/2020 No. 17-20492 no time, Mrs. Rose told Cruise to meet her and Mr. Rose at the bank where they stashed FWR’s money in various accounts. Mrs. Rose wanted the team “to pull all the money out . . . and put those funds in another account” so as “to hide the money from the federal government so it wouldn’t be seized.” Twelve transfers later, and the Roses had moved $700,000 from the FWR accounts into a brand new Chase account, held in the name of Pure Vanity Boutique, Inc. (“Pure Vanity”), a corporation newly created by the Roses. 3 That same night, the Roses, Sanders, and others met at a restaurant to discuss the warrants. The Roses didn’t mention the money transfers. A formal executive meeting was also called following the warrants, and Mrs. Rose attended. The meeting was secretly recorded. Mr. Rose had instructed Cruise to find a company to sweep the executive office for listening devices, and, at the meeting, Cruise reported that no bugs had been found. In unison, Mrs. Rose and her husband exclaimed, “praise the Lord.”