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Whistleblower Spotlight -- Halliburton Whistleblower Tony Menendez

Posted  04/30/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Tony Menendez, the former accounting executive at Halliburton who the company publicly "outed" after he complained to the SEC about what he saw as the company's multi-billion dollar accounting transgressions.  An in-depth profile of Menendez published last week by ProPublica and Marketplace provides tremendous insight into what...

Tagged in: SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards, Whistleblower Spotlight and Interviews,

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SEC Awards Compliance Officer Whistleblower Over A Million Dollars

Posted  04/23/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The SEC announced an award of more than a million dollars to a compliance officer who had a reasonable basis to believe that disclosure to the SEC was necessary to prevent imminent misconduct from causing substantial financial harm to the company or investors. This is the second award the SEC has made to an employee with internal audit or compliance responsibilities, after the...

Tagged in: SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Securities Fraud, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Rewards,

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DOJ Catch Of The Week — Medtronic

Posted  04/3/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to medical device maker Medtronic plc and affiliated Medtronic companies, Medtronic Inc., Medtronic USA Inc., and Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA Inc.  Yesterday, the companies agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by making false statements to the Department of Veterans...

Tagged in: Catch of the Week, Medical Devices and DME, Other Government Health Programs, Trade Agreements, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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SEC Announces Record $30M Whistleblower Award

Posted  09/23/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced an expected whistleblower award of more than $30 million.  It will be the largest award to date under the SEC whistleblower program established in 2012 under the Dodd-Frank Act.  It surpasses the $14 million award the SEC made to great fanfare roughly a year ago.  The new award will also be the fourth award to a...

Tagged in: SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Whistleblower Rewards,

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Eighth Circuit Takes Broad View of Whistleblower “Finder's Fee”

Posted  04/17/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, a whistleblower who files an action that ultimately leads to a government recovery is entitled to a generous portion of the proceeds -- anywhere from 15 to 30 percent.  There is no discretion in making an award.  It is mandated by statute.  It is this unadulterated promise of a significant financial bounty that has been a...

Tagged in: Court Decision, FCA Federal, Whistleblower Rewards,

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Another Record Year for DOJ Whistleblower Recoveries

Posted  01/16/14
whistleblower_successesBy the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The DOJ just released its annual compilation of False Claims Act (FCA) statistics.  Once again, the numbers are sure to raise eyebrows.  Overall, the DOJ recovered $3.8 billion during FY 2013 – an amount second only to last year’s record-breaking recovery of almost $5 billion.  Neither of these figures reflects criminal fines and forfeitures or state recoveries for...

Tagged in: Statistics, Whistleblower Rewards,

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Show Me the Money – Large Rewards as an Indispensable Piece of the Whistleblower Enforcement System

Posted  06/15/12
By Gordon Schnell In yet another corporate attempt to upend the surging success of the American whistleblower system, the US Chamber of Commerce recently proposed a cap on whistleblower rewards.  Under the False Claims Act as well as the recently implemented whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, whistleblowers are entitled to between 15% and 30% of any government recovery.  This has...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Rewards,

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