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Shares of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) fell sharply in premarket trading Friday after The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has launched a new civil fraud investigation into the company's business practices.The probe focuses on how UnitedHealth adds questionable diagnoses to members' medical records, allegedly inflating payments for its Medicare Advantage plans. The investigation also involves the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to sources cited in the report.

Appeals judges in New York fielded multiple questions to the New York Attorney General’s Office on Sept. 26 indicating that they were skeptical of its application of an anti-fraud law to former President Donald Trump’s business practices.The questions came during oral arguments over Trump’s claims that the state Supreme Court erred in handling the civil fraud case, which resulted in a $489 million penalty for the former president.Trump’s attorney in the case, D. John Sauer, told a five-judge panel in the court’s appellate division that the judge and prosecutors flouted time limits on the claims involved. He noted that Attorney...