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Top Ten Non-Healthcare False Claims Act Recoveries for 2023

Posted  01/30/24
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It was another big year for DOJ enforcement under the False Claims Act, the government's primary fraud-fighting tool.  As usual, most of the recoveries were in the healthcare space with seven of the Top Ten recoveries involving various schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.  See our Top Ten FCA and Top Ten Healthcare FCA listings. While healthcare recoveries dominated the Top Ten, two of the top five...

Tagged in: Customs Fraud, Education Fraud, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Government Programs Fraud, Housing and Mortgage Fraud, Top 10,

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Catch of the Week: King Kong Tools

Posted  11/30/23
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This week's Department of Justice (DOJ) Catch of the Week goes to King Kong Tools GmbH & Co KG.  On  Wednesday (November 29), the German-based supplier of recycling, forestry, construction, and agricultural equipment, along with its American subsidiary, agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle DOJ charges of violating the False Claims Act through customs fraud.  More specifically, the government alleged King Kong...

Tagged in: Catch of the Week, Customs Fraud, FCA Federal, Misrepresentations, Whistleblower Case,

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Top Ten Non-Healthcare False Claims Act Recoveries of 2020

Posted  01/14/21
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This year’s Top Ten Non-Healthcare False Claims Act Recoveries demonstrates the False Claims Act’s power to combat an array of corporate misconduct spanning diverse industries. In 2020, the United States recovered hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds obtained through claims rendered false by bribery and bid-rigging schemes, mortgage underwriting fraud, avoided import duties, fraudulent loan applications, and...

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Customs Fraud, FCA Federal, Government Loan Programs, Government Programs Fraud, Housing and Mortgage Fraud, Top 10, Whistleblower Case,

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Top Ten Federal Financial Fraud Recoveries of 2020

Posted  01/14/21
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The U.S. government has many enforcement options for financial and investment fraud, including those that provide for whistleblower rewards such as the SEC Whistleblower Program, the CFTC Whistleblower Program, and the IRS Whistleblower Program.  These programs, along with a new one under the Anti-Money-Laundering Act of 2020, are open for business and promise to pay millions of dollars in whistleblower awards in...

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Customs Fraud, Education Fraud, Financial and Investment Fraud, Financial Institution Fraud, FIRREA, Government Loan Programs, Housing and Mortgage Fraud, Top 10,

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Putting a Stop to Illegal Imports from Forced Uyghur Labor

Posted  09/18/20
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The world has watched in horror as, starting in 2018, up to two million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have been arrested, relocated, or otherwise forced into internment centers in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.  The government of the People’s Republic of China has separated thousands of Uyghur children from parents, forced methods of control on women, and inflicted physical and psychological...

Tagged in: Customs Fraud, Human Rights, Money Laundering, Whistleblower Eligibility,

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Constantine Cannon Client Slams the Brakes on Customs Fraud in $8 Million Settlement Against Auto Parts Distributor Centric Parts

Posted  07/24/20
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Steve Hughes, a whistleblower represented by Constantine Cannon, slammed the brakes on a long-running scheme by his former employer to evade customs duties, resulting in an $8 million settlement of the whistleblower’s False Claims Act lawsuit against CWD, LLC. The Carson, CA-based company, which does business as Centric Parts, is one of the largest aftermarket brake and chassis parts distributors in North America....

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, Customs Fraud, FCA Federal, Government Programs Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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How Businesses Can Use Whistleblower Reward Laws to Stop Unfair Competition

Posted  07/22/19
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Most anyone can be a whistleblower. The role is not limited to the corporate insider or company employee at the meeting, on the conference call or in receipt of the email or text message where the “smoking-gun” evidence of fraud or misconduct is disclosed. Whistleblowers can be any person, or an entity, with non-public information about fraudulent conduct giving rise to a whistleblower claim.  Often, businesses...

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Customs Fraud, FCA Federal, FCA State, Government Procurement Fraud, Government Programs Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Eligibility,

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Question of the Week -- Will New Tariffs Result in More Fraudulent Tariff Dodging?

Posted  06/6/18
On May 31, the White House announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. Steel from those countries and the European Union will be subject to a 25% tariff, and aluminum will be subject to a 10% tariff. While the steel and aluminum tariffs were originally proposed to apply to imports from a larger number of countries, the White House announcement...

Tagged in: Customs Fraud, FCA Federal, International Whistleblowers, Question of the Week,

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British Whistleblowers can Make “Millions” under US Laws if they “Shop” UK Companies, American Lawyers Say

Posted  04/30/18
The Telegraph reported this weekend on Andrew Patrick, the first British whistleblower to expose a UK company for evading U.S. import duties and only the second British whistleblower to receive an award under the False Claims Act. Mr. Patrick brought a qui tam lawsuit in 2016 against Pure Collection Ltd (“Pure”). The U.S. government intervened in the lawsuit and it ultimately resulted in a settlement of over...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, Customs Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, International Whistleblowers,

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Blowing the Whistle on Tariff Dodgers

Posted  04/23/18
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Faced with higher tariffs, some importers seek unlawful means to avoid those costs.  As tariff evasion schemes multiply and become more valuable, whistleblowers can play a critical role in exposing these schemes, and can receive a financial reward for doing so. In an article titled Tariff Dodgers Stand to Profit Off U.S.-China Trade Dispute, the New York Times described the schemes that companies importing goods...

Tagged in: Customs Fraud, FCA Federal,

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