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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- October 26, 2015

Posted  October 26, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

CEO of Chicago healthcare company pleads guilty in $1.8M scheme involving fraudulently upcoding Medicare bills – “The chief executive of Chicago-based Mobile Doctors pleaded guilty today to charges that he fraudulently increased Medicare bills for in-home treatment that was shorter and less complicated than the claims indicated.”  DOJ (N.D. Ill.)

Internal Volkswagen probe focuses on managers who looked the other way —  “A widening internal investigation at Volkswagen is focusing not only on who was responsible for installing illegal software designed to fool emissions testers, but also on which managers may have learned of the deception and failed to take appropriate action . . . .”  NYT

New York investigating potential fraud in major internet providers’ charges for faster broadband speeds – The New York AG has sent letters to Verizon, Cablevision Systems Corp., and Time Warner Cable, seeking information and testing related to whether the companies shortchanged consumers by charging but not delivering the faster speeds being advertised.  Reuters

Former Goldman Sachs banker to face criminal case receiving leaked documents from inside government – “Federal prosecutors are preparing to announce a criminal case against a former Goldman Sachs banker suspected of taking confidential documents from a source inside the government, a rare criminal action on Wall Street that comes as Goldman itself is facing an array of regulatory penalties over the leak.”  NYT

U.K. whistleblower rules broadening?  — “Financial institutions of all provenance and sizes should take note of the U.K.’s new whistleblower regulations as the rules may be branching out soon.”  WSJ