Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 13, 2015
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Prosecutors go after fraud at Veterans Affairs – One case involves a VA employee taking more than $1.2 million in kickbacks; another involves an employee who stole gravestones from a cemetery to floor his garage. Washington Post
Time to modernize the nursing home system – Officials intend to make sweeping changes to the rules that nursing homes must follow in order to receive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. NPR
Whistleblower in convicted cancer doctor case speaks out. ABC News
Former New England Patriots player charged in fraud scheme – Will Allen and a former bank executive were charged with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud professional athletes using faulty loans. USAO – Massachusetts
Army National Guard official sentenced to 3 ½ years of prision – Jason Rappoccio, a former active duty sergeant first-class, was charged with accepting a $30,000 bribe in exchange for steering a government contract to a company. DOJ