Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 27, 2015
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Edward Snowden’s legacy? – Meet Cherax snowden, the crayfish species named after the NSA whistleblower. Ars Technica
No retreat in Vermont fraud investigation – Vermont’s attorney general is conducting a criminal investigation into alleged Medicaid fraud at the Brattleboro Retreat, a private psychiatric hospital, following a whistleblower’s complaints. The state’s inquiry comes two years after the United States Attorney’s Office rebuffed the whistleblower’s concerns and one year after a federal judge dismissed the whistleblower’s lawsuit. Burlington Free Press
The plot thickens in Albuquerque – Albuquerque Public Schools CFO Don Moya filed a whistleblower lawsuit against education officials claiming they violated whistleblower protection laws when they came after him for trying to stop now-resigned deputy superintendent Jason Martinez from rigging a lucrative IT contract. Now, allegations surface of child sexual assault, domestic violence, and dirty dealings at the highest levels state government. Albuquerque Journal and KOB4
Fraud abroad – A federal court today will sentence a Miami doctor who billed Medicare $25 million for medical services provided at a clinic in . . . Nicaragua. Along with his son, a senior executive of a managed-care company, Dr. Santiago Montoya used phony Miami-area addresses to cover up the fact that he illegally provided Medicare-paid services to over 1,000 American expatriates living in Nicaragua. Medicare laws prohibit payments for services provided in a foreign country. Miami Herald