Category: Whisteblower

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Process and Awards Millions Paid In Awards The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rewards people who provide specific and credible information to the IRS of offshore tax avoidance and other tax fraud schemes when the information leads to recovery of unpaid taxes. Last year, the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Announces Record Whistleblower Awards Recently, two government agencies reported record whistleblower awards to be paid out on two separate cases.[1]  In the first, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reported that two whistleblowers would receive a combined $61 million in awards.  The SEC’s previous record was a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Large Cancer Treatment Chain Settles Whistleblower Case for $26 Million Stark Law and False Claims Act Suit Whistleblower/qui tam cases brought under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) often involve false claims for reimbursement under Medicare and Medicaid. In addition to the FCA, the federal Stark Law prohibits […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblower Retaliation Case Before Supreme Court What is the Scope of Protection Against Retaliation? At the end of November, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Digital Realty vs. Somers, a whistleblower case involving securities fraud. The case demonstrates the complexity of whistleblower cases and questions […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Pharmaceutical Company Settles Whistleblower Case for $456 Million False Claims Act Suit Whistleblower/qui tam cases under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) can be huge. The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a $456 million settlement in one FCA whistleblower/qui tam case against a leading pharmaceutical company. The […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER   Defense Contractor Settles Whistleblower Case False Claims Act Suit   Recently, a defense contractor and its subsidiaries settled a large, ongoing whistleblower, or qui tam, lawsuit for allegedly defrauding the government. In the action, the whistleblower/relator alleged that the contractor and several of its subsidiaries had conspired […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  Whistleblower Case Settles For $280 Million False Claims Act   2017 is developing into a banner year for whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. A big whistleblower case against one of the country’s largest bio-pharmaceutical companies recently settled for $280 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Protects Whistleblowers from Retaliation Whistleblowers Gets Job Back In a strong statement of encouragement to whistleblowers the government recently ordered the reinstatement of a bank whistleblower who blew the lid on the bank’s unlawful practices. In a complex national case against one of the country’s largest banks, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Lawsuit Spotlights Medicare/Medi-Cal Overbilling False Claims A false claims lawsuit against a nursing home alleging overbilling of Medicare and Medi-Cal recently settled for $54 million. The large false claims case was a whistleblower suit, also known as a qui tam. According to reports of the settlement, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Kickbacks and False Claims More Fraud in Healthcare Industry Recently, one of the country’s leading pharmaceutical companies settled a whistleblower’s False Claims Act (FCA) case against them for $13 million. The case, filed in 2009, was brought by two doctors/whistleblowers who alleged that defendant offered kickbacks to doctors […]