ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER During the 2014 fiscal year, the government’s whistleblower program has been the most successful yet. According to the New York Times, the Justice Department recovered $5.69 billion for false claims...
Category: False Claims
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) first initiated its whistleblower program back in 2010. It gave two key features to persuade whistleblowers to come forth: (1) monetary rewards for...
Whistleblower Failure-of-Care Claim Settled for $38 Million
October 20, 2014
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In 2010, a whistleblower came forth with information showing Extendicare Health Services Inc., a nursing home chain, was defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by charging patients for below-average care. Now,...
Reasons For Being A Whistleblower
October 13, 2014
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Two words: employer retaliation. Whistleblowers don’t normally report wrongdoing to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the attention. In fact,...
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Thanks to whistleblowers, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) can boast an increase in cases – over 686 cases in 2014 alone. This is a first since 2011. In addition to the increase in numbers of...