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Whistleblower News From The Inside — June 16, 2015

Posted  June 16, 2015

ChildrensHospitalBy the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Children’s Hospital to pay $12.9M to settle whistleblower charges of Medicare fraud — The payment settles charges the hospital system violated the False Claims Act by submitting false cost reports and other applications to HHS.  DOJ

Gilead gets whistleblower case over AIDS drug dismissed — A federal judge dismisses a whistleblower lawsuit accusing drugmaker Gilead Sciences of distributing HIV/AIDS drugs for about three years after switching manufacturers without government approval.  Reuters

Bureau of Prisons puts CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling in prison 900 miles from wife and family — “The government likes to isolate whistleblowers from their natural allies, and now the Bureau of Prisons is trying to isolate them from their families . . . prov[ing] that ‘rehabilitation’ is not their priority . . . .”  Firedoglake

Special Forces officer tells Senate panel he was vilified as whistleblower — Lt. Col. Jason Amerine told a Senate panel his security clearance was suspended and he came under a criminal investigation after being labeled a whistleblower for reporting his concerns the Army’s hostage recovery system was broken.  Fierce Gov

Chuck Blazer to pay millions in FIFA corruption scandal — The former executive vice president of the US Soccer Federation and once a powerful member of the executive committee of FIFA secretly pleaded guilty to a 10-count indictment and agreed to cooperate with the US bribery and corruption investigation that led to the toppling of FIFA President Sepp Blatter last month.  NBC

Former CEO of PetroTiger pleads guilty to foreign bribery — Joseph Sigelman, who previously co-ran the BVI oil and gas company, admitted conspiring to pay bribes to a Columbian official to secure a $45M contract there in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  DOJ