ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Since the inception of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program when the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law in 2010, the SEC has done...
Category: Whistleblower
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing home network Hebrew Homes agreed to pay $17 million to settle a False Claims Act suit brought by their former CFO. According to the CFO, Hebrew Homes allegedly violated the Anti-Kickback Statute,...
Former Pharmaceutical Sales Rep Becomes Whistleblower in Exposing Big Pharma Practices
June 24, 2015
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In her book, Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher, former pharmaceutical sales representative Gwen Olsen is exposing Big Pharma. Olsen says that there is no such thing as a safe drug, and that she and other...
Supreme Court Rules on Qui Tam Issues
June 11, 2015
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Supreme Court’s opinion in Kellogg, Brown & Root Services, Inc. v. United States ex. Rel. Carter has mixed implications for both relators and the defense side. The court’s ruling on the...
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The SEC Award program was created by the Dodd-Frank Act. This provides an incentive for people to give any information which would let the SEC take sanctions in an amount over $1 million. A whistleblower...