Category: Whistleblower

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Internal Revenue Service Rewards Whistleblowers Over $312 Million in IRS Whistleblower Rewards Paid Out in 2018 IRS Targets Offshore Tax Avoidance 2018 was a banner year for the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Whistleblower Program. During the year, the IRS made 217 awards to whistleblowers totaling over $312 million, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Industry Whistleblowers The Government’s Whistleblower Program and Awards Government prosecutors need your help in prosecuting financial fraud and will reward you if your information leads to a recovery. The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (“FIRREA”) and Financial Institutions Anti-Fraud Enforcement Act of 1990 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Internal Revenue Service Rewards Whistleblowers Whistleblower Award Base Increases Foreign Bank Account Reporting Requirements Tax season is here, the government has re-opened, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is back to business. IRS business includes catching tax fraud and whistleblowers play a major role in enforcement and receive […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Healthcare Fraud on the Government Whistleblowers Lead the Way in Recoveries Outlook for 2019 In 2018, the volume of False Claims Act (FCA) litigation remained high, and health care-related qui tam (i.e., whistleblower) cases continued to lead the way.  Data from 2018 suggests that pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and home health […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers Bring Most Healthcare False Claims Act Cases Large Whistleblower Awards Healthcare fraud against Medicare and Medicaid amounts to billions of dollars every year. Whistleblowers bring most of the recovery actions when it comes to healthcare fraud against the government and the government rewards them when there is […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases for Overcharging Government Settles Large Whistleblower Suit Against Compounding Pharmacy Whistleblower Rewarded Healthcare fraud against Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health care programs amounts to billions of dollars every year. Overcharging for drugs and procedures is a major type of this fraud.  Whistleblowers bring […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases For Kickbacks and Falsifying Records Two Large Whistleblower Settlements Awards in whistleblower cases brought for false claims against the government can be very substantial. Last week, the government announced two settlements in false claim whistleblower cases with rewards for the whistleblowers, discussed below, that […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases For Excessive Medicare Reimbursements Another Large Whistleblower Settlement The majority of false claims for government reimbursement come in the healthcare field. Whistleblowers initiate the majority of any government recovery actions whether the false claim is for fraudulent reimbursement, kickbacks, or other false schemes primarily […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Internal Revenue Service Rewards Whistleblowers Whistleblowers Aid Enforcement The United States loses an estimated $450 billion every year to tax evasion. Individuals with information of tax evasion can help the government go after tax evaders – and be rewarded for the assistance as whistleblowers on the evasion. Last […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Large Whistleblower Settlement For Illegal Upcoding False claims for inflated Medicare reimbursements (sometimes in the form of “upcoding”) are a common fraud against the government. Under the False Claims Act, whistleblowers initiate the majority of recovery actions against companies for submitting such inflated claims. The California and San Francisco […]