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Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 21, 2015

Posted  August 21, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Former Park Avenue Bank president sentenced to prison in bailout fraud —  Charles Antonucci Sr., the first person convicted of trying to rip off the federal bailout program, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for, among other crimes, bank bribery, self-dealing, embezzlement of bank funds and a failed effort to fraudulently get more than $11 million worth of taxpayer rescue funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.  ABC News

Two banks reach resolution under Swiss Bank Program — The DOJ announced that bank zweiplus ag (Bank Zweiplus) and Banca dello Stato del Cantone Ticino (Banca Stato) have reached resolutions and will pay penalties under the DOJ’s Swiss Bank Program.  DOJ

Medicare fraud is committed well beyond U.S. borders — The U.S. government paid out $25 million from 2011 to 2014 for medical care received by more than 1,000 foreign residents who signed up using post office boxes, mail-forwarding services, or the addresses of friends or relatives in Florida to conceal that they lived overseas.  Bloomberg

Oklahoma state GOP senator admits to $1.8M in fraud, quits — Sen. Rick Brinkley admitted he stole $1.8 million from the nonprofit agency where he worked and filed a false tax return for which he could get up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the wire fraud and up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the false tax return.   Washington Post

Brazil Speaker Eduardo Cunha facing corruption charges — Brazilian prosecutors investigating a major corruption scandal have filed charges against the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, who is accused of taking $5m (£3.2m) in bribes to secure contracts with the state oil giant, Petrobras.   BBC