Mary Inman

Mary Inman is a partner from Constantine Cannon’s San Francisco office who is on assignment to the London Office.  After 20+ years representing whistleblowers in the U.S., she moved to London in July 2017 to launch the firm’s international whistleblower practice. She specializes in representing whistleblowers from the U.K., E.U. and worldwide under the American whistleblower reward programs.

Ms. Inman is a recognized expert and frequent author and speaker on areas related to the international application of the American whistleblower laws, financial frauds, health care reimbursement and government procurement.  She has particular expertise in addressing Medicare Advantage risk adjustment fraud and is one of the lead attorneys in a prominent whistleblower case against UnitedHealth Group involving allegations the Medicare Advantage Organization submitted false claims for payment to the Medicare Program based on artificially inflated member risk scores.  She also has extensive experience addressing fraud in government infrastructure projects, and representing city and state governments in prosecuting civil fraud actions.

Ms. Inman joined Constantine Cannon in June 2015.  Previously, she was a partner at Phillips & Cohen, LLP.  Her clients have successfully helped the United States and various states and municipalities recover hundreds of millions of dollars, including cases where:

  • A California jury awarded a $223 million verdict to several Los Angeles and California agencies against an electric utility for overcharging its government customers.
  • A series of hospitals around the country paid $62.9 million to settle allegations that they had inflated cost reports submitted to Medicare for reimbursement.
  • Tyco International and other manufacturers paid over $60 million to settle claims by dozens of California municipalities that they had sold waterworks parts with 40% more lead than allowed by industry standards.
  • Tenet Healthcare Corp. paid $9.75 million in part to settle allegations that its subsidiary shifted costs from its inpatient unit to its rehabilitation unit to increase Medicare reimbursement.
  • Afghanistan war-zone contractor RECON International settled with the Department of Justice in 2010 to avoid litigating claims that it had fraudulently inflated its bills for materials used to build operating bases for U.S. troops.
  • The San Francisco Unified School District received a $5 million award after suing NEC Business Network Solution for paying kickbacks to school officials to induce them to order excess computer equipment using federal funds from the E-rate program.

Ms. Inman also was a leading member of the team of lawyers representing a whistleblower, several states and dozens of public agencies in a two-month jury trial, which resulted in a verdict that the largest PVC pipe manufacturer in the world had defrauded its customers over a ten-year period.  Prior to the start of the trial, co-defendant Formosa Plastics paid $22.5 million to settle its own potential liability.

Ms. Inman graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1994, where she was an articles editor and an associate editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
After law school, she clerked for the Honorable D. Brock Hornby, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, and the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. She was then an associate at O’Melveny & Meyers LLP in San Francisco, where her practice focused on employment, collective bargaining and False Claims Act matters.

Ms. Inman graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1990 with a joint degree in Russian and Government and Legal Studies.  During her senior year she studied abroad at the Moscow State Linguistic University.

Ms. Inman is bar-qualified in California and Maine.

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Oct112023
The Conundrums of Tax Professionals: Technology, Whistleblowing, and Ethical Decision-Making

On Oct. 11, Mary Inman and Michael Ronickher spoke on the panel “The Conundrums of Tax Professionals: Technology, Whistleblowing, and Ethical Decision-Making” put on by...

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Sep232022
Book Review: "Money Men," by Dan McCrum

When in 2014, Dan McCrum, a bank analyst turned investigative journalist, received a tip about “German gangsters” running a company that advertised itself as the German...

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Sep92022
Air travel could be much safer with an aviation whistleblower program. Congress should pass it now

Whistleblower partner Mary Inman was published in Fortune, Air travel could be much safer with an aviation whistleblower program. Congress should pass it now (September...

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Jan142022
Elon Musk Is Mocking Whistleblowers. Here's Why That's a Good Thing

Whistleblower partners Mary Inman and Poppy Alexander were published in Newsweek, Elon Musk Is Mocking Whistleblowers. Here's Why That's a Good Thing (January 14, 2022).

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Nov42021
$25 Million Medicaid Settlement Reached over Violations of False Claims Act in Massachusettsment’s Crackdown on Risk Adjustment Fraud Continues

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Ronny Valdes were published in RACmonitor, $25 Million Medicaid Settlement Reached over Violations of False Claims Act in Massachusettsment’s Crackdown...

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Sep292021
Government’s Crackdown on Risk Adjustment Fraud Continues

Mary Inman and Max Voldman were published in RACmonitor, Government’s Crackdown on Risk Adjustment Fraud Continues (September 29, 2021).

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Sep222021
Sutter Health: Latest Part C Participant to Settle on Whistleblower Allegations

Mary Inman and Max Voldman were published in RACMonitor, Sutter Health: Latest Part C Participant to Settle on Whistleblower Allegations (September 22, 2021).

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Sep22021
RISE West Summit 2021

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman, Ed Baker, and Max Voldman were speakers at the RISE West Summit.  Mary and Max led a discussion on the Keys...

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Aug112021
Fifth Circuit Affirms Government Dismissal of Cases Brought by Corporate Whistleblower

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Leah Judge were published in RACMonitor, Fifth Circuit Affirms Government Dismissal of Cases Brought by Corporate Whistleblower (August 10, 2021).

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Jun162021
A New Day for Data Whistleblowers: In a Historic First, DOJ Joins False Claims Act Case

Mary Inman and Max Voldman published an article with RAC Monitor, A New Day for Data Whistleblowers: In a Historic First, DOJ Joins False Claims...

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Feb192021
Book Review: “Big Dirty Money: the Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime,” by Jennifer Taub

The Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team is pleased to introduce The Whistleblower's Book Shelf, an ongoing series of reviews of books and other media that address...

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Oct152020
Cross-Border Investigations

On Oct. 15, Mary Inman spoke on a panel on Cross-Border Investigations at the 2020 Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival & Summit (virtual).  Click here...

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Oct142020
Corporate Whistleblowing 2020: Where We Are Today and Where We’re Going

On Oct. 14, Mary Inman spoke at Brooklyn Law School’s virtual conference Corporate Whistleblowing 2020: Where We Are Today and Where We’re Going. Click here to...

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Sep162020
New Settlement Demonstrates New Fraud Type in Medicare Advantage program – Inflation of bids

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RACMonitor article, New Settlement Demonstrates New Fraud Type in Medicare Advantage program – Inflation of bids....

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Sep42020
Whistleblowing: Defending the Accuser and the Accused

On August 25, 2020, Partner Mary Inman joined international tax whistleblower Charlie Middleton and Roy Snell, co-founder of SCCE & HCCA, on a panel moderated...

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Aug122020
Pfizer Fights Back, Claiming First Amendment Right to Partake in Charitable Giving

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in a RAC Monitor article, Pfizer Fights Back, Claiming First Amendment Right to Partake in Charitable Giving....

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Aug12020
Whistleblower Programmes: Making Cartel Detection more Effective

Mary Inman’s article, “Whistleblower Programmes: Making Cartel Detection more Effective” is published in August issue of Financier Worldwide. See the article here!

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Jul292020
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: the Government's Latest Stand against Patient Kickbacks Disguised as Charity

Mary Inman and Max Voldman were published in the RAC Monitor (July 29, 2020).

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Jun32020
Integra Med Analytics Loses Battle to establish New Breed of Corporate Whistleblower Outsiders

Mary Inman and Max Voldman were published in the RAC Monitor (June 3, 2020).  Click here to read the article.  

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Jun12020
Whistleblowers: The Science Sleuths Holding Fraudulent Research Accountable

Mary Inman authored the introduction to an article in Good10: The Pandemic Issue, a collaboration among GOOD, leapsmag, and the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program.

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Mar42020
EHR vendor Settles Landmark Case Alleging Acceptance of Kickbacks from Pharma Company to Steer Opioid Prescriptions

Constantine Cannon partners Mary Inman and Anne Hartman published in RAC Monitor, EHR vendor Settles Landmark Case Alleging Acceptance of Kickbacks from Pharma Company to...

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Nov82019
Trump's Whistleblower Tactics are Straight out of America's Corrupt Corporate Playbook

Mary Inman and Ari Yampolsky published in Quartz on retaliation often faced by whistleblowers.

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Sep62019
Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime

London whistleblower partner Mary Inman participated in the 37th International Symposium on Economic Crime, from September 1st-September 8 at Jesus College of Cambridge University, speaking...

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Sep22019
Whistleblowing & DPAs and Their Impacts on the Cost of the Crime

Mary Inman spoke at a legal education conference for Brazilian judges, "II New Trends in the Common Law: Artificial Intelligence, Economic Analysis of Law and...

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Jun52019
Intermountain Drops Supreme Court Challenges to False Claims Act with Settlement of Whistleblower Suit

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RAC Monitor (June 5, 2019).  Click here to read more.

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May292019
US WorldMeds Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit for $17.5 Million

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RAC Monitor (May 29, 2019).  Click here to read more.

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May212019
WHISTLEBLOWING UK

Parnter Mary Inman speaks on Whistleblowing at Joint Event by Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment (CISI) and Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce.  Click...

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Apr172019
Medstar Health Pays $35 Million to Settle Kickback Claims

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RAC Monitor (April 17, 2019).  Click here to read more.

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Mar272019
Community Health Systems, Medhost: Twin Targets of Whistleblower Lawsuit

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RAC Monitor (March 27, 2019).  Click here to read more.

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Mar202019
Walgreens facing whistleblower lawsuit over Medicaid drug pricing

RAC Monitor publishes article by Partner Mary Inman and associate Max Voldman, Walgreens facing whistleblower lawsuit over Medicaid drug pricing.   Click here to read the...

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Dec192018
International Roundtable - Corporate Settlement agreements: A delicate balance between pragmatism and justice

Partner Mary Inman speaks at Coventry University regarding the SEC's response to Gagging Clauses in Separation Agreements that seek to Chill Whistleblower Speech.  Click here...

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Nov292018
Rise in International Whistleblowers filing under U.S. Whistleblower Reward Programmes

Partner Mary Inman spoke at the Transparency International Ireland's Integrity at Work Conference.  Click here to learn more. (November 28, 2018).

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Nov72018
The Truth About Truth Telling

Mary Inman served as the moderator of panel of international whistleblowers at the World Conference of Accountants in Sydney, Australia (November 6, 2018).

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Oct172018
Despite MAOs’ Claims, Recent Decision Doesn’t Imperil DOJ and Whistleblower Risk Adjustment Fraud Cases

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RAC Monitor (Oct. 17, 2018).  Click here to read the article.

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Oct22018
Puerto Rico empowers whistleblowers in fight against hurricane-recovery fraud

Op-Ed by Mary Inman, Miami Herald, October 1, 2018.  Click here to read the Op-Ed.

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Sep262018
A New Paradigm for Whistleblowing - Is it the way Forward?

Mary Inman was a keynote speaker at the MLROs.com Conference Three on September 26, 2018.  Read more here.

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Sep82018
Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime

Mary Inman spoke on September 8, 2018, at the 36th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime.  Ms. Inman's panel addressed the Public Interest Disclosure Act...

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Aug302018
Integra Med Analytics Files Whistleblower Lawsuit against Providence Health & Services and J.A. Thomas and Associates

London whistleblower attorney Mary Inman published in RAC Monitor (August 30, 2018).  Click here to read the article.

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Aug242018
Whistleblowing: A Practical Guide

Mary Inman spoke at the Byline Festival in East Sussex on August 24, 2018.

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Jul202018
Towards a common European legal framework for the protection of whistleblowers

Panelist; University of East London/Coventry University (July 20, 2018).

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Jul192018
Hundreds of Medical Professionals Charged in Largest Healthcare Fraud Takedown in American History

RAC Monitor publishes article by Partner Mary Inman and associate Max Voldman, Hundreds of Medical Professionals Charged in Largest Healthcare Fraud Takedown in American History.

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Jul102018
Should UK whistleblowers be paid?

Panelist, Bar Association for Commerce, Finance & Industry (July 10, 2018).

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Jul22018
Is Bitcoin the Currency of Criminals or the Future of Money?

Panelist, MLROs.com (July 2, 2018).

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Jun212018
The reality of whistleblowing - why procedures need to be better

Panelist; Wellington’s Festival of Education (June 21, 2018).

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Jun202018
Whistleblowers Often Face Retaliation for Exposing Healthcare Fraud

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RAC Monitor (June 20, 2018).  Click here to read the article.

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Jun142018
What is whistleblowing?

Panelist; Institute of Business Ethics (June 14, 2018).

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Jun132018
Aetna Whistleblower Sues CVS’s Pharmacy Benefit Management Division for Spread Pricing

RAC Monitor publishes article by partner Mary Inman and associate Max Voldman, Aetna Whistleblower Sues CVS's Pharmacy Benefit Management Division for Spread Pricing.  Click here...

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May232018
Enterprising Nurse Whistleblower Helps Federal Government Secure Third Settlement Against Latest Healthcare System Target

Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RAC Monitor (May 23, 2018).  Click here to read the article.

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May82018
Whistleblower Developments in the US and EU: New Statutes, the Cross-Border Whistleblower Phenomenon and Challenges of Cross-Border Investigation

Panelist;  American Bar Association (May 8, 2018)

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Mar192018
Scrutiny of border wall project a must

Partner Mary Inman's Op-Ed published in the Houston Chronicle (March 19, 2018).  Click here to read the Op-Ed.

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Mar62018
Loose Lips Save Ships

The Maritime Executive (March 6, 2018).  Click here to read the article.

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Feb92018
Financial Crimes and Fashion

Presenter; Federal Bar Association's 5th Annual Fashion Law Conference, New York City (February 9, 2018).

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Nov292017
The Business Case for Whistleblowers

Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business, London Centre (November 29, 2017)

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Nov22017
Medicare Parts C and D: A look at cases and recent developments surrounding Medicare Parts C and D and risk adjustment fraud

Moderator; 17th Annual Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Conference, Washington D.C. (November 2, 2017).

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Oct252017
The Anatomy of Whistleblowing in Healthcare

1-hour Webcast for RAC Monitor’s RAC University (October 25, 2017) By Mary Inman Watch the Webcast.

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Apr12017
Prescription for Chiropractors: Are Your Medicare Billing Procedures Out of Alignment?

The American Chiropractor (April 2017). Click here to read the article.

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Nov172015
The Calm Before the Storm: Enforcement Trends in Risk Adjustment: DOJ and the False Claims Act

Presentation by Mary Inman at SSN's Medicare Risk Adjustment & Revenue Management Conference in Miami. (November 17, 2015).  Download presentation; Click here to view the agenda.

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Mar122015
The risks and rewards of medical loss ratio come to managed care

Managed Healthcare Executive (March 12, 2015). Click here to read the article.

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Jan202015
Enhanced State False Claims Act Enforcement in 2016.

The Knowledge Group’s Live Webcast series. Click here to view the agenda.

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May12014
EHRs: Computer Functions Facilitate Fraud

Healthcare Business Monthly (May 2014). Click here to read the article.

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Oct192013
Keynote Speech

October 19, 2013 Mary Inman presented at the Los Angeles County Bar Association 10th Annual Healthcare Law Compliance Symposium

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Feb252013
Anti-Fraud Challenges for 2013

Mary Inman was Presenter at the HCCA Managed Care Compliance Conference

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Oct12012
Medicare Risk Adjustment: Financial Incentives May Lead to Bad Practices

AAPC Coding Edge (October 2012), 30-32 Click here to read the article.

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Feb132012
Beyond RADV: Does Your Plan's Risk Adjustment Strategy Run Afoul of the False Claims Act

Presented at the HCCA Managed Care Compliance Conference (February 13, 2012).  Click here to view the presentation.

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Apr292010
False Claims Act Enforcement of Procurement Fraud, Special Considerations for Contractors

Mary Inman was Presenter at the CLE International: False Claims Act Qui Tam Litigation

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May32001
Whether FCA Fines Violate the 8th Amendment

Mary Inman was a presenter at the American Bar Association Fraud Institute

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