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March 15, 2016
The CFTC announced that a federal district court has unsealed a civil complaint the CFTC filed with the Northern District of Illinois on February 2, 2016, against two foreign web-based binary options firms, Vault Options, Ltd. and Global Trader 365, both Israeli web-based companies. The CFTC’s complaint alleges that the two firms unlawfully solicited and accepted more than $1 million from at least 50 U.S. customers to trade off-exchange binary options contracts, defrauded those customers, and operated as unregistered Futures Commission Merchants. CFTCFederal Qui Tam Litigation: A Primer for the Newcomer to Federal Whistleblower Actions
Posted 03/15/16
Tim McCormack and Molly Knoebler presented at the SUNY Buffalo Law School and the Law Alumni Association's GOLD Group CLE Program
In Their Own Words — Hollingsworth
Posted 03/15/16
-- "THIS COULD BE YOUR MOTHER, YOUR GRANDFATHER . . . THEY COULD BE IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY IN A NURSING HOME OR HOSPITAL, AND THIS COMPLAINT IS NOT INVESTIGATED. IT COULD BE LIFE-THREATENING."
Patient Safety Advocate Marian Hollingsworth on the allegations of San Diego nursing home whistleblower Rose Espiritu who "claims she was ordered to close cases prematurely by supervisors at the state's Department of Health." ...Whistleblower News From The Inside — March 15, 2016
Posted 03/15/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
World Health Organization says environmental factors like pollution cause a quarter of deaths -- The report "found that environmental risk factors accounted for about 12.6 million deaths out of a total of 55.6 million. One of the biggest scourges was air pollution, which caused not only lung and respiratory infections but also heart disease and cancer." NYT
Feds order...
March 15, 2016
National retailer Lord & Taylor has agreed to settle FTC charges that it deceived consumers by paying for native advertisements, including a seemingly objective article in the online publication Nylon and a Nylon Instagram post, without disclosing that the posts actually were paid promotions for the company’s 2015 Design Lab clothing collection. FTCFannie, Freddie and the False Claims Act
Posted 03/14/16
The National Law Journal (March 14, 2016)
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Whistleblower News From The Inside — March 14, 2016
Posted 03/14/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Whistleblower sues VW after being fired over data deletion row – A fired employee who worked in a data center for Volkswagen in Michigan, “claims the company had carried on deleting data for weeks after an order from the Department of Justice on September 18th to stop routine data deletions.” Fortune
California businessman attempted cover up of stolen investor funds –...