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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- June 13, 2016

Posted  June 13, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Whistleblower case to be decided by Supreme Court probably the most important in a generation —  The Escobar case may not have this term’s  highest profile but its impact could be enormous.  “[T]he False Claims Act plays such a central role in the recovery of fraudulently obtained taxpayer funds, and the challenges to the act in the case before the court are so fundamental, [that] the financial stakes are arguably the highest of any case this term, easily running into the hundreds of millions of dollars.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Former Deutsche Bank employees found guilty of tax fraud – A German court found six ex-employees guilty of enabling tax fraud within the carbon emissions certificate trading program. Their actions led the bank to issue erroneous value-added tax statements resulting in tax evasion of €220 million. WSJ

Texas chiropractor sentenced for receiving kickbacks in workers’ comp referral scam – Garry Craighead received nearly $18 million in exchange for referring patients covered by the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act.  TribLive

Workers who lost jobs to global outsourcing companies are speaking out – Despite severance agreements prohibiting them from criticizing their former employers, laid-off workers are speaking to congressional investigators and reporters about abuses of the H-1B visa program. NYT

Former director of Cleveland VA Medical Center sentenced for taking bribes -– William Montague had pleaded guilty to receiving bribes and sharing confidential information about construction projects.  USAO-ND Ohio