‘The View’ Star Sunny Hostin’s Husband Accused of Insurance Fraud in Federal Lawsuit
Sunny Hostin‘s husband, Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin, is facing legal trouble as he’s one of almost 200 defendants named in a sweeping insurance fraud lawsuit.
According to legal documents filed with the New York Eastern District Court on December 17, 2024, and obtained by the Daily Mail, orthopedic surgeon Emmanuel and his practice, Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, are among the 180 defendants listed in the lawsuit.
The suit accuses Emmanuel and others of insurance fraud, claiming they received “kickbacks by performing surgery and… billing a company that insured taxi companies and Uber and Lyft drivers.”
“Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries,” the lawsuit claims, per the Daily Mail, adding that insurance firm American Transit was then billed “in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.”
Emmanuel’s attorney, Daniel Thwaites, told the outlet that his client denies all allegations, calling the filing a “blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.”
“It is meant to intimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,” Thwaites stated. “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.”
Sunny and Emmanuel married in 1998 and share two children, Gabe (22) and Paloma (18). Sunny, an attorney and long-time co-host on The View, frequently speaks about her husband on the ABC morning show, including last month when discussing the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“Doctors suffer because of big corporations as well, doctors that want to do good like my husband,” Hostin told her co-hosts, per Fox News Digital. “[He] operates on someone even though they don’t have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work that he’s been trained his whole life to do.”
Sunny has yet to address the lawsuit against her husband.
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Disgusting horrible person sunny is evil to her core yes he definitely is quilty her husband it's all Greed...hope they lock his ass up take her with you ... People are rude ...I feel for the kids hope they are not like her in any way .please karma is good ...
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Until facts, not always those in print are know, people need to wait, not spew the unknown. Some have no life and thrive on media comments & gossip. Such chaos!
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Do you know Sunny? I do not. I know she appears on The View. There is so much hate and jealousy in your voice. Perhaps you should talk with a professional. God bless you.
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I wonder if this is going to be a Hot Topic😂
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Karma/ 😄😄
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Excellent, Ms. I know everything and everyone and I am so wonderful is getting a taste of reality
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AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!
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I hope he become a convicted fellon like Trump. So lets see how that shoe fits. Lol
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Trump case was a bogus charge from the start. Prosecutor contorted the law to convict. Appeals court will see many reversible errors from the Kangaroo Court.
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About none of y'all attack the real proven convicted felon.
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I love that he lives, rent free in your head lol go daddy Trump lol
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I bet you they don’t talk about that on whatever show she’s on. I don’t even know the name of it because I don’t watch any of that crap I started to say the view but I don’t think that’s right. I don’t know what show she’s on because she’s disgusting individual! She has lived a life of privilege and gets on the bandwagon for the oppressed when she hasn’t been oppressed a day in her privileged life I guess we’re gonna call it black privilege! Since we like to refer to white people that are doing well as white privilege! I wouldn’t know anything about white privilege because I am working paycheck to paycheck! But you know whose fault that is mine it’s my fault that I did not stay in school and get a decent education! I don’t get out here and blame others because I have not turned out to be wealthy because of my poor decisions as a teenager and young adult! I was married for 20 years and all I ever dreamed about being was a housewife and a homemaker and unfortunately those jobs don’t pay a lot and when that gig ran out, it left me scrambling! I absolutely love my job, but it’s definitely not a livable wage!
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Yes you do or you wouldn't take time of your obviously boring life to make a comment about someone you claim not to know anything about.
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Daddy Biden gave convicted felon Hunter a pardon. Funny that it was exactly to the 11 years of lawless activity.
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Sonny told the whole world her husband is committing fraud on the show, admitting she knows all about it. Considering your comment about no life and media comments and gossip...yet here you are making comments.
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Exactly and where did they get the idea that Sunny lived a privilege life?? Clueless will always be clueless because they're ignorant
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Bogus is as Bogus does. Get a grip Bogus
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Why??
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Did you hope Trump got convicted of his 34 indicted felons?? How disgraced is this country to have a felon Putin wannabe as president
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