Category: Qui Tam

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Offshore Tax Avoidance And Other Tax Evasion Schemes Billions Lost To Tax Fraud Whistleblowers Rewarded For Assistance Over the past several months, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced several new enforcement initiatives against tax evaders. One was the creation of a special task force of agents dedicated exclusively […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Contractors May Defraud The Government Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Contractors who defraud the government in connection with federally funded construction projects or other government orders for work projects or goods violate the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. (FCA). Private citizens who report […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Rewards Whistleblowers Reporting Healthcare Fraud Unnecessary, Unsupervised and Unaccredited Practices When the government pays for medical services through Medicare, Medicaid or other programs, the provider is bound by government rules related to those services. The government is defrauded when the provider breaks those rules but charges the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Environmental and Securities Fraud by Biofuel Industry Whistleblower Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Private citizens who bring any kind of fraud against the government to light are rewarded under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. (FCA), when the government recovers. The fraud may include false […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Wants Whistleblower Help Blowing The Whistle On Fraud CFTC Announces Large Whistleblower Award The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rewards individuals who provide original information to the CFTC about fraudulent trading schemes in futures, options, foreign currency, virtual currency and commodities like […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Wants Whistleblower Help Blowing The Whistle On Fraud Bringing Securities, Lending, and Banking Fraud to Light The government rewards citizens who blow the whistle on any kind of fraud perpetrated by financial institutions like banks, brokerage firms, and mortgage lenders. Often, a single fraudulent scheme, like violating […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER HUD Violations By Lender Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Fraud May Constitute Numerous Statutory Violations Any mortgage lender that submits false claims to the government regarding mortgages insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) or guaranteed by the Department of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Securities and Exchange Commission Rewards Whistleblowers Any Securities Fraud Can Be The Basis of a Whistleblower Case Reporting Domestic And Offshore Securities Fraud<h3> In April 2020 alone, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded $34 million to whistleblowers who blew the whistle on securities fraud here in […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Charging The Government For Unnecessary Medical Tests Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Health care providers defraud the government when they submit bills under Medicare, Medicaid and other government-backed programs for unnecessary medical tests and procedures. Private citizens who bring such fraud to light are rewarded under the False […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Illegal Kickbacks For Prescribing Medical Devices Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Kickbacks for medical referrals or prescription of medical devices violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, and, when the government is paying for the services, the False Claims Act. 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b (Anti-Kickback Statute); 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et […]