Category: Whisteblower

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 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER $13.45 Million Settlement in False Claims Case The Recent Case Recently, three cardiac monitoring device providers agreed to settle a whistleblower case (also known as a “qui tam”) against them for alleged false claims to the government for reimbursement under Medicare. The whistleblower was a former sales manager […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Prosecuting Healthcare Fraud Under the False Claims Act Healthcare Fraud and Whistleblowing Healthcare fraud costs the United States billions of dollars per year. The fraud is perpetrated in myriad ways against a variety of victims but by far the nation’s largest healthcare fraud are false claims against the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Hospital Settles $34 Million Whistleblower Case Whistleblower Reveals False Claims Qui tam (or whistleblower) lawsuits are typically large, complicated cases. In a recent case, a whistleblower alleged large scale violations of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) by a hospital and its affiliated clinic. The FCA allows private […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Health Care Fraud At Its Ugliest Sometimes stories of fraud just stop you in your tracks. This is one such case. Recently, state authorities rescued 60 residents of a nursing home after their food ran out and trash piled up. Food and services bills hadn’t been paid. Resident […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Department of Justice Expands Investigation Lead By Whistleblower Allegations of Large-Scale Medicare Fraud The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently expanded its investigation of the Medicare Advantage Plan thanks to the efforts of a Medicare whistleblower. The whistleblower case (also known as a qui tam) began as an investigation […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Tax Court Continues IRS Whistleblower Anonymity Whistleblower Protected For Now When tax fraud or tax avoidance is in the billions of dollars, there’s much at stake, including the safety of the individual who blew the whistle on the fraud. Courts and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) understand that. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER IRS Whistleblower Program Growing By Leaps and Bounds IRS After Abusive Offshore Tax Avoidance Schemes 2016 marked the Tenth Anniversary of the Whistleblower Office at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Last week, the IRS reviewed that first decade in its Annual Report to Congress. The results are impressive. […]