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 […]

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 California Insurance Code 1871.7 One of the primary aims of the California Insurance Code is to protect individuals from insurance fraud. As a part of that Code, the California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act (“IFPA”) allows anyone to file whistleblower lawsuits against any company engaging in insurance fraud. Indeed, […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER News Rules in Qui Tam Legislation The False Claims Act is a venerable statute of the U.S. Government, dating back to the Civil War. Originally targeted at preventing the rampant fraud plaguing the union army, over the years it has come to be used more broadly, allowing individual […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER What the Wells Fargo Case Means for Whistleblowers The Wells Fargo bank fraud case has been the hot topic for news stations, politicians, and consumer attorneys for the last few weeks. The case saw the largest fine ever levied by the Consumer Financial Protection Board, over 5,000 employees […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Revised Rewards Guidelines Issued by the IRS The IRS has the unenviable job not only of collecting taxes, but of following up and investigating businesses and individuals that try to avoid paying their fair share. The investigative effort this requires is staggering, and as a result, the IRS […]