Category: Whistleblower

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New SEC Rules Favor Whistleblowers Over $500 Million Has Been Rewarded To Whistleblowers Whistleblowers Help SEC Recover Over $2.5 Billion Recently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced several rule changes expanding the rewards rules for persons who blow the whistle to the SEC on securities fraud.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Misspending Grant Money Constitutes False Claims Act Violation  Taxpayer Funds For Research Institute Pays $10 Million To Settle Allegations Whenever the government issues grant money, the government expects the money to be used for a certain purpose, such as medical research.  If the grant money is misspent the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER SEC Whistleblower Office Has Recovered $2.5 Billion 87 Individual Whistleblowers Have Been Rewarded Even Limited Information May Result In An Award The Whistleblower Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was created under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”), Pub. L. 111-203, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rewards Whistleblowers Commission Targets Fraudulent Trading Schemes  Insider Rewarded $9 Million For Information Commodities and futures trading constitute an enormous financial marketplace and wherever hundreds of billions of dollars trade hands every year, there’s bound to be fraud. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rewards Whistleblowers Commission Targets Fraudulent Trading Schemes Insider Rewarded $9 Million For Information Commodities and futures trading constitute an enormous financial marketplace and wherever hundreds of billions of dollars trade hands every year, there’s bound to be fraud. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Senator Grassley Proposes Amendments  Strengthening The False Claims Act  Private Citizens Recover Billions For Government The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, imposes liability on persons and companies who defraud the government and rewards individuals who help the government recover money lost as a result of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Overbilling Government Programs For Services Not Provided  Falsifying Program Certifications  Employees, Directors and Other Insiders Bring Fraud To Light Healthcare fraud costs the nation an estimated $68 billion annually, much of that cost ultimately hitting taxpayers through false claims against Medicare and Medicaid (known as Medi-Cal here in […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Falsified PPP Loan Applications Small Business Administration Targets Ineligible Recipients  PPP Small Business Loan Fraud Under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq., the federal government rewards whistleblowers who present credible information of false claims under government programs (like Medicare and Medicaid) or false […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Illegal Kickbacks For Prescribing Medications Whistleblower Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Kickbacks for prescriptions 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 seq. (False Claims Act). The government rewards […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  California False Claims Act Rewards Whistleblowers  Expanding The Act To Tax Fraud Legislation Approved By The State Assembly On June 10, the California State Assembly approved AB 2570, legislation sponsored by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, seeking substantial expansion of the California False Claims Act (CFCA). Among other […]