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...
Category: Whistleblower
San Mateo Whistleblower Attorney: False Claims Act
June 29, 2016
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...
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...
Contra Costa Whistleblower Attorney: IRS Whistleblowers
March 28, 2016
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...
San Francisco Qui Tam Attorney: False Claims Act
February 17, 2016
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...