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Beam Bros. Trucking Agree to Settle Civil False Claims Act Allegations

Posted  03/13/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Beam Bros. Trucking, a Virginia trucking company, has agreed to pay $1,025,000 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that Beam Bros. overcharged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on contracts to transport mail. This settlement resolves allegations that BBT misused USPS issued credit cards to purchase fuel on contracts that did not allow for their use, resulting in...

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

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Pennsylvania Hospital and Cardiology Group Settle FCA Suit for Over $20M

Posted  03/8/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team UPMC Hamot and Medicor Associates, a hospital and a cardiology group located in Erie, Pennsylvania, have settled allegations that they violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law, also known as the Physician Self-Referral Law. Generally speaking, the Anti-Kickback Statute prohibit hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, nursing homes, durable medical equipment (DME) companies,...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Hospital Fraud, Provider Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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Deloitte & Touche Settles FCA Suit for $149.5M

Posted  03/1/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Deloitte, the world’s largest accounting and consulting company,  has settled allegations arising from its role as an outside auditor of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. (TBW), a failed mortgage broker that issue FHA and HUD secured loans. At one time, TBW was one of the largest privately held mortgage lending companies in the US, issuing over $35B in mortgages in 2007...

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Housing and Mortgage Fraud,

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Deloitte & Touche Settles FCA Suit for $149.5M

Posted  03/1/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Deloitte, the world’s largest accounting and consulting company,  has settled allegations arising from its role as an outside auditor of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. (TBW), a failed mortgage broker that issue FHA and HUD secured loans. At one time, TBW was one of the largest privately held mortgage lending companies in the US, issuing over $35B in mortgages in 2007...

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Housing and Mortgage Fraud,

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United States Targets a Private-Equity Firm and Pharmacy in a Whistleblower Case

Posted  02/26/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team On Friday the Wall Street Journal reported on the U.S. government’s decision to intervene in a False Claims Act qui tam case against pharmacy Diabetic Care Rx LLC and the private equity firm that holds a controlling stake in the pharmacy, Riordan Lewis & Haden Equity Partners (“RLHEP”). Diabetic Care is a compounding pharmacy that mixes different ingredients to create...

Tagged in: Compounding Pharmacy Fraud, Defendants, FCA Federal, Other Government Health Programs, Pharma Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

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National Whistleblower Reward Day

Posted  02/20/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team February 20th is National Whistleblower Reward Day. The day was created by former Department of Justice Attorney Joel Hesch to bring attention to the importance of whistleblower reward programs. The False Claims Act is the foundation of the U.S. whistleblower system, and by far the most widely used statute by whistleblowers to report corporate fraud and misconduct. Since 1986, the...

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Importance of Whistleblowers,

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Constantine Cannon Announces a $900,000 Whistleblower Settlement With Luxury UK e-Retailer

Posted  02/14/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Constantine Cannon LLP is pleased to announce a more than $900,000 settlement on behalf of its whistleblower client in a lawsuit against Pure Collection Ltd. Pure Collection is a Harrogate, England-based e-retailer of luxury cashmere and apparel goods. The United States Government announced the settlement agreement yesterday with Pure Collection and the e-retailer's acting...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, Customs Fraud, FCA Federal, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Rewards,

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South Carolina Resident Found Liable for $51 Million in Health Care Fraud

Posted  02/2/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The United States Attorney’s Office in South Carolina announced that a federal jury returned a unanimous verdict against Floyd Calhoun “Cal” Dent and two co-conspirators, Robert Bradford Johnson and LaTonya Mallory, for defrauding Medicare and Tricare. The government alleged that Mr. Dent and his co-conspirators paid kickbacks to physicians so they would order medically...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Lack of Medical Necessity,

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US Obtains $16.2M Judgement Against MRI Provider for Violating False Claims Act

Posted  01/30/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team A Delaware federal court entered a default judgment of roughly $16.2 million against MRI provider Orthopaedic and Neuro Imaging LLC (ONI) for violating the False Claims Act through the company's fraudulent submissions to Medicare. ONI’s owner, Richard Pfarr, was held jointly and severally liable for just over $6 million of that amount. ONI operates independent diagnostic testing...

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Improper Medical Personnel, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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