Category: Whistleblower

IRS Whistleblowing on Abusive Offshore Schemes Awards for Helping the IRS Catch Tax Cheats The highest whistleblower award in US history was paid to an individual with original information of a massive offshore tax fraud. A former employee of the Swiss bank UBS received $104 million for unveiling the bank’s […]

Sleep Clinic Whistleblower Reaps Big Award Medicare Pays Whistleblower Over $500K A former technician at a Bay Area sleep clinic recently received a large award from Medicare for information that her prior employer broke the law. Specifically, the whistleblower’s information to Medicare and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed […]

IRS Whistleblowing Cheating On Taxes Taxes are a chore to most, but to others, it seems like they may be an art, and art of fraud, that is. Records show that more and more companies and individuals are attempting to cheat on tax returns and submitting millions of dollars’ worth […]

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Awards Higher Than Ever IRS Whistleblower Awards We can all agree that an increase in whistleblower awards is good where wrongdoing is exposed and prosecuted. This is especially true in the tax arena; it means that citizens are doing their job and reporting cases—good cases—to […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER J.P. Morgan is Exposed for IRS Fraud J.P. Morgan and the IRS After settling a lawsuit for over $300 million just about a year ago, J.P. Morgan is now potentially in some trouble with the IRS. A former employee and now whistleblower has just come forward to express […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Responsibility Matters: What to Know and How to Do It Whistleblowing Whistleblowing is a difficult topic, often because people are reluctant to do it out of uncertainty or unease or, worse, fear of retaliation. But in many cases it is the responsible course of action when one is […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER If You See Something… Blow the Whistle?   Whistleblowing Whistleblowing in the workplace may not be something you hear about often. For anyone who may not know exactly what this entails, whistleblowing is an employee informing someone else about illegal or unethical acts being done by their employer […]

The financial forensic auditor who uncovered the Barry Madoff Ponzi scheme is now sending up a new alert. According to Business Insider, this auditor is claiming that “fraud is endemic in the insurance industry.”  The auditor tried to convince the Securities and Exchange Commission to look into Madoff for nine […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The IRS Whistleblower Program How the Program Works In this age of heightened notoriety for whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, it can often seem like there’s little or no recourse for those with inside knowledge. However, while it can often be difficult to spill the beans […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Role of Whistleblowers in Healthcare How Whistleblowers can Reform the Healthcare Industry Whistleblowers have long been looked to by the U.S. government to help uncover wrongdoing and work with government agents to ensure that inside information about systematic fraud is revealed. The False Claims Act, which empowers […]