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Whistleblower News From The Inside — June 8, 2016

Posted  June 8, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Bliss, Idaho farmer sentenced to prison for seed fraud – Idaho farmer Bernard Saul, who made $1.9M in seed sales by fraudulently mislabeling conventional alfalfa seed as organic, received a three-year federal prison sentence and was ordered to forfeit his ill-gained profits and pay an additional $7,500 fine; the FBI, USDA, OIG, and IRS investigated.  Magic Valley News

UN whistleblower in CAR sex abuse case resigns – Two years after leaking information to French officials about a U.N. investigation into French soldiers’ sexual abuse of children, and five months after a report commissioned by Ban Ki-moon completely exonerated him for sharing confidential documents, whistleblower Anders Kompass resigned, saying he could no longer work for an organization with no accountability for such serious abuses of authority. The Guardian

Government intervenes in case against Kentucky ambulance company – The federal government joined a whistleblower in alleging that Kentucky-based Arrow-Med Ambulance fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid by transporting patients to dialysis and other appointments when they did not require ambulance transport. Lexington Herald Leader

San Diego construction company settles FCA case for $5.4M – San Diego-based Harper Construction paid $5.4M to resolve allegations it set up sham subcontractors to secure federal government contracts for military base construction projects; Ricky Howard, the whistleblower who brought the case, will receive $1.4M. Times of San Diego

Police raid Rio de Janeiro Olympic venue on suspicion of fraud – Brazilian federal police raided the offices of the consortium building the second-largest Olympics complex in Rio de Janeiro, after the Comptroller General’s Office found over-billing, falsification of receipts, and the use of a shell company to stimulate transport and disposal of required materials. Bloomberg

Connecticut underwater communications company settles FCA suit for $400K –Mansfield, Connecticut company Aquasent settled allegations it violated the FCA by claiming nearly $1M in National Science Foundation grants to which it was not entitled; Aquasent allegedly misrepresented the identity and number of the company’s third party investors. Miami Herald