Category: Whistleblower

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Appellate Win for False Claims Whistleblower Whistleblowers won a recent victory in the Ninth Circuit, where the Court reinstated a false claims whistleblower case alleging false claims under Medicare. See US ex rel. Geraldine Godecke v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc., et al, No. 18-55246 (9th Cir. Sept. 6, 2019).[1] […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Wants Whistleblower Help Commission Issues Alert on Bank Secrecy Act Violations The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) actively seeks whistleblower help in overseeing commodities and futures trading and in enforcing anti-money laundering laws. The CFTC rewards whistleblowers whose information that leads to prosecution […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Federal and State Whistleblower Laws Rewards and Job Protection for Whistleblowers The federal government and the State of California reward whistleblowers who bring actions (known as qui tam actions) for certain illegal activities or fraud the whistleblower knows about and has evidence of. The procedures and limitation periods […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblower Discovery in Pending Cases Recent Opinion Defines What Whistleblower Can See Important Decision for Whistleblower A recent federal district court opinion makes clear that a whistleblower who brings a false claims action against a defendant may be able to discover what that defendant shares with the government […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Microcaptive Insurance Tax Abusers Corporations Use Small Captive Insurance Companies To Avoid Tax The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun sending letters to up to 200 companies, offering to settle open investigations of abusive insurance transactions with the companies’ own small, insurance subsidiaries (known as “microcaptives”). These companies […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New Senate Bill to Extend Whistleblower Protections Whistleblower Protections for Securities and Commodities Law Violations  This past week, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and Dick Durbin (D-III) introduced the Whistleblower Programs Improvement Act (WPIA) that would extend […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers May Uncover Violations of Numerous Laws Court of Appeals Upholds Large Verdict Under Federal Banking Law and False Claims Act The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (“FIRREA”) and the Federal Claims Act (“FCA”) both offer rewards to whistleblowers with original information about certain […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Judge Renders $339.4 Million Judgment In Healthcare Fraud Case Former Employee Blew The Whistle On Giant Fraud Overbilling On A Massive Scale A federal judge just last week entered a $339.4 million judgment against four defendants in a massive whistleblower (also known as “qui tam”) case of Medicare […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Fraud of Medicare Kickback Schemes Whistleblower Blows Whistle on Patient Assistance Program Healthcare fraud is the single largest category of fraud against the government, primarily aimed at the government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. Fraudulent schemes under these government programs include charging for services never rendered, false coding […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Agencies Want Whistleblower Help 2018 Record Breaking Year for Whistleblower Rewards Whistleblowers assist the government in all kinds of enforcement efforts (sometimes referred to as “qui tam” cases) and ultimately can be rewarded for blowing the whistle on fraud or other violations of the law. The U.S. […]