The View Co-Host Sunny Hostin Gets Terrible Legal News

The View co-host Sunny Hostin’s New Year is off to a bad start.

Her husband, an orthopedic surgeon, is facing allegations of insurance fraud.

Dr. Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Hostin has been named as one of the defendants in one of the biggest RICO lawsuits ever filed in New York.

The lawsuit alleges that Dr. Hostin as well as about 200 others participated in a scheme to perform surgery then fraudulently bill the insurance firm American Transit, which insures taxis and rideshare drivers, in exchange for kickbacks.

Take a look at the breaking news:

🚨 WOKETARD SUNNY HOSTIN EXPOSED: The View co-host’s husband, Dr. Manny Hostin, caught in a massive RICO insurance fraud case. Prosecutors claim the orthopedic surgeon profited from kickbacks for surgeries billed to taxi and rideshare insurers. pic.twitter.com/jHaUD5DqPD

— Irrelevant News (@IrrelevantFeed) January 7, 2025

Sunny Hostin's husband has just been accused of insurance fraud in a RICO case filed in New York.

The lawsuit alleges ‘Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries.'

His legal team has denied all allegations. pic.twitter.com/ntFnmoX12F

— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) January 7, 2025

Sunny Hostin might have let slip some of her husband’s illegal activity back on an episode of The View last month…

Sunny Hostin's husband has been named in a massive insurance fraud RICO case. WACTH: Hostin implicates her husband in such a scheme: "[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…" pic.twitter.com/P2ZvLdmhzt

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 7, 2025

Whoops.

Fox News has more details on the allegations Dr. Hostin is facing:

The husband of “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin has been accused of insurance fraud in a sweeping federal lawsuit filed last month.

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin and his practice, Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, were named among more than 180 defendants in a major RICO case filed in New York on Dec. 17.

According to The Daily Mail, Hostin and the other defendants were allegedly receiving “kickbacks” for performing surgeries and fraudulently billing the insurance company that provides for Uber, Lyft and other taxi companies.

“Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries,” the lawsuit claims, per The Daily Mail, adding that the American Transit Insurance Company, which filed the lawsuit, was billed “in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.”

In a press release announcing the $450 million lawsuit, American Transit said, “The federal court complaint, filed in the Eastern District of New York, alleges that the defendants sought to take advantage of New York’s no-fault auto insurance laws, which require insurance companies to reimburse their policyholders for the cost of necessary and documented medical care up to $50,000 for personal or private passenger vehicles ($200,000 for taxis and for-hire vehicles in New York City) for injuries arising out of an accident regardless of fault. These substantial possible no-fault recoveries can incentivize providers with ill intent to over-diagnose, over-treat, and over-bill to recover the most money for themselves.”

The Daily Mail also reported:

The long-time husband of The View co-host Sunny Hostin is starting the New Year under a cloud after being accused of federal insurance fraud.

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Hostin is among nearly 200 defendants named in one of the largest RICO cases ever filed in New York.

He and many of the others are accused or getting kickbacks by performing surgery and fraudulently billing a company that insures taxi companies and 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’.

‘It is meant to intimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,’ Thwaites said.

He said Hostin has an ‘impeccable’ record, adding: ‘American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit without ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any concerns to his lawyers.

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‘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 said.

Sunny Hostin, 56, has been married to the doctor for nearly quarter of a century. They tied the knot in 1998 and have two children and live in a palatial 10-bed, 10-bath estate in Purchase, New York.