Category: Whistleblower

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New Developments in False Claims Act Cases As the end of a Supreme Court session rolls around, attorneys tend to take a moment to recoup, gather the decisions, and take a look at what new features have been added to the landscape of the law. This has been […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The SEC’s New Approach to Fighting Corporate Crime As the SEC whistleblower program issues a $17 Million reward, the second largest since the creation of the program in 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission is signaling a clean break with its historic policy of encouraging businesses to police […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER SEC Whistleblower Program Awards The Securities and Exchange commission has just doled out it’s second-largest award ever, a whopping $17 million, to a Wall Street employee who provided insider information that helped advance an SEC investigation. Due to the nature of the investigation and the anonymity of the […]

Congress Looks at Reforming the False Claims Act The False Claims Act was originally created during the Civil War to allow ordinary citizens to sue fraudulent companies on behalf of the government. Companies that intentionally sold low-quality goods to the Union Army could be brought to task by civilians who […]

Understanding the IRS Whistleblower Program A tax whistleblower reports a tax scheme or fraud carried out by his employer to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and in exchange the reporter receives at least 15 % of the proceeds collected. The reward for a whistleblower serves as the carrot that provides […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER IRS Whistleblowers Protection Currently, IRS whistleblowers don’t have a legal protection against retaliation even though this protection exists under other whistleblower award programs. Without protection against retaliation, whistleblowers may face physical harm or damages to economic interests. But in most cases, they could lose their job because they […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Health Care Providers seek to weaken False Claims Act Healthcare is one of the areas most frequently involved in qui tam cases, and by restricting the avenues available for prosecutors to pursue claims against nursing homes, health care facilities, and pharmaceutical companies, lobbyists hope to prevent the government […]

The whistleblower division is responsible for processing thousands of tax whistleblower claims annually. Private individuals, known as whistleblowers, are authorized to bring on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service division a tax fraud suit to recover money lost. The IRS division shares the money recovered with the whistleblowers, and because […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A $125 Million Settlement Put Skilled Nursing Facilities on Notice A Qui Tam Lawsuit against the Kindred/RehabCare Nursing home company has just settled for $125 million, according to the law firm that handled the case. The claims, levied under the False Claims Act, were that nursing homes owned […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Endo Pharmceuticals and seven of its subsidiaries will pay $39 million to settle a whistleblower qui tam lawsuit alleging that the company manufactured and sold fluoride multivitamins containing less than half the labeled dosage. Fluoride is important to the dental health of children. Generally, we could find fluoride […]