Whistleblower News from the Inside - August 19, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Portrait of an SEC whistleblower — Former MassMutual Financial Group employee Bill Lloyd, who received a $400,000 reward, tells his story of blowing the whistle on the company’s investment scheme that bilked investors out of retirement funds.  NYT

Tucson hospitals pay $35M to settle whistleblower suit — Nonprofit Carondelet Health Network has agreed to pay $35 million to settle allegations that, for seven years, two of its hospitals submitted claims for inpatient rehabilitation facility services that weren’t properly reimbursable because the patients were not eligible.  KTAR News

PricewaterhouseCoopers pays $25M fine for “improperly altering” report — The settlement with New York’s financial regulator stems from the consulting firm’s work for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ as the bank was facing regulatory scrutiny for doing business with countries blacklisted by the US.  NYT

DOJ terminates False Claims Act investigation of AstraZeneca — The government is ending its investigation of the company’s heart drug Brilinta without taking any action after a whistleblower lawsuit claimed a clinical trial of the drug had been manipulated.  WSJ

Former prosecutor gets arrested on purpose — His plan was to learn about the criminal justice system from the other side of the bars after putting so many others there.  The Atlantic

Whistleblower sues North Carolina medical examiner’s office over retaliation — Kevin Gerity has sued under the North Carolina whistleblower act claiming he was forced to retire because he told investigators a state pathologist had mishandled murder evidence.  NewsObserver