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WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2009 – When a TriWest Healthcare Alliance nurse who serves in the Kansas Air National Guard got notice of an upcoming deployment in 2006, TriWest President David McIntyre ensured the company would see to her family’s needs. “There was no hesitation when I said that I was going to deploy,” said Janet Hanson, a colonel with 24 total years of active and Air Guard military service. “Mr. McIntyre personally said that if my family or I need anything during the deployment to contact him personally, which was great.” McIntyre’s gesture is just one of the reasons TriWest...

The self-acknowledged mastermind behind an international scheme that bilked 15,000 investors of nearly $60 million was sentenced Friday to 10 years in federal prison. In 1999, Alyn Richard Waage created Tri-West Investment Club, which prosecutors say was an Internet-based Ponzi scheme that used money from new investors to pay older investors from around the world who were guaranteed a high return at no risk. Waage, 58, formerly of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and San Jose, Costa Rica, pleaded guilty in May to mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Military officials recommend that servicemembers check their credit reports after last month’s theft of computers and health records from a Tricare contractor. Files containing names, Social Security numbers, addresses and other personal information were stolen from TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp., an Arizona company that contracts with Tricare to provide health care for servicemembers and their dependents, according to an Army news release. TriWest serves military beneficiaries in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and part of western Texas. Beneficiaries may obtain information from the TriWest Web site, www.triwest.com;...