The View's Sunny Hostin's husband, Emanuel, is named in a fraud lawsuit

Sunny Hostinhusband Emanuel “Manny” Hostinwas named in an insurance fraud lawsuit filed in New York.

According to the legal documents obtained Daily mail and watched Us Weekly on Tuesday, January 7, Emmanuel, who married The view cohost in 1998, is one of nearly 200 defendants included in this filed a lawsuit with the Eastern District Court of New York on December 17, 2024.

Listed as “Emmanuel Hostin, MD,” an orthopedic surgeon based at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West hospitals in New York, according to US Healthis accused of federal insurance fraud and “getting kickbacks by operating and … billing a company that insured taxi companies and Uber and Lyft drivers,” according to reports Daily mail.

We has reached out to representatives for Sunny and Emanuel for comment.

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The lawsuit states, “Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other health care services, including arthroscopic surgeries.” The documents also allege that insurance company American Transit was then billed “in exchange for reimbursements and/or other compensation disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.”

Emanuel addressed the charges through his attorney Daniel John Thwaitetelling the outlet that his client “denies every allegation.” Thwaites added that the lawsuit is a “generic, sprawling, non-profit brought by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.”

Thwaites offered further: “The purpose of this is to intimidate and harass doctors into charging for care of American Transit policyholders and their passengers. American Transit has rushed to legal action without once examining Dr. Hostin or raising any concerns with his attorneys. The real story here is an insurance carrier that abuses the legal system to restrict and limit health care benefits for its insureds and their passengers, and would write off his duties.

Emmanuel and Sunny, 56, live in Purchase, New York, and live together two children — son Gabe, born in 2002, and daughter Paloma, born in 2006.

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Sunny, a lawyer and multi-platform journalist who joined The view as a full-time manager in 2016 has been open about various troubles her family has been seen over the years. In January 2021, she revealed that Emmanuel's parents had died of COVID-19 just weeks before.

“While I have chosen a very public career, as most of you know, those who know my husband Manny know that he is very private. But after speaking with him, he felt it was very important for me to share from a public health perspective that we are deeply saddened that Manny lost both of his parents over the holidays,” Sunny said. The view at that time.

Sunny added that her in-laws, dr. Mary Jesus and dr. A. Emmanuel“both were doctors and both were very careful” and “didn't celebrate Thanksgiving with us because we all decided it wasn't safe. And after much contact tracing, we still don't know how they contracted this virus and this disease.

American Transit is seeking at least $450 million in damages, according to the filing. Company attorney, William Nutboneytold Daily mail“”No-fault fraud is a huge problem in New York. American Transit filed the lawsuit as part of its statutory responsibility to combat such fraud.