Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 30, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Redemption for VA whistleblowers with settlement of retaliation claims — The Office of Special Counsel helped three whistleblowers at the Department of Veterans Affairs settle whistleblower retaliation claims relating to their disclosures of mismanagement at the Phoenix VA Medical Center, with at least two of the whistleblower receiving promotions.  Washington Post

Three reasons why women are more likely than men to be whistleblowers — Fortune

Gov to reveal drug company payments to doctors — Striving to shine a light on potential ethical conflicts in medicine, the Obama administration, through its so-called Open Payments Program, will begin releasing data on drug company payments to tens of thousands of individual doctors.  AP

BofA pays $7.65M to settle with SEC over $4B accounting error — Though a trifle compared to its recent $16.65 mortgage fraud hit, the penalty highlights what has been one of the more embarrassing financial flubs at the mighty bank.  NYT

Administrator of Miami home health care company sentenced for health care fraud — Annilet Dominguez, Administrator of Professional Medical Home Health LLC, is sentenced to serve 68 months in prison and ordered to pay almost $6.3M in restitution for her participation in a $6M health care fraud scheme involving kickbacks for patient referrals for home health services not medically necessary or actually provided.  DOJ

Money laundering moving to smaller banks — “It’s one of those things where you tighten the screws in one area and then it pushes them somewhere else and then they find some loopholes there.”  WSJ