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Whistleblower News From The Inside — March 10, 2016

Posted  03/10/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Colorado Telecomm company pays $8.2 million settlement under the Massachusetts FCA – The company allegedly violated a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and improperly withheld rent from the Department related to running fiber optic cables alongside state highways. Framingham Patch Whistleblower suit defends workers who assisted OSHA – A...
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The UK’s new whistleblowing regime going live: UK financial institutions required to appoint a “whistleblowers’ champion”

Posted  03/10/16
By Yulia Tosheva On 7 March 2016, the new rule requiring UK deposit-takers (banks, building societies and credit unions), PRA-designated investment firms and insurers to appoint a senior manager as their whistleblowing champion came into force. The whistleblowers’ champion will be responsible for ensuring the integrity, independence and effectiveness of the firm’s policies and procedures on whistleblowing. A...

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Financial Institution Fraud, International Whistleblowers,

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March 10, 2016

The FTC and the DOJ brought a federal court action against KFJ Marketing, LLC; Sunlight Solar Leads, LLC; Go Green Education; and Francisco J. Salvat to stop a telemarketing operation that allegedly made illegal robocalls promising consumers energy savings, in an effort to generate leads to sell to solar panel installation companies. According to the complaint, defendants Francisco Salvat and his companies placed more than 1.3 million illegal pre-recorded telemarketing calls to consumers with phone numbers on the national Do Not Call Registry. The defendants allegedly claimed to be attempting to help consumers with their energy costs. FTC

March 9, 2016

Florida arrested a couple for defrauding the Medicaid program out of more than $180,000 in fraudulent claims. Oscar Alzate, 48, and Alba Garcia, 48, owners of Digital Radiology Center, Inc. and Medisound, Inc., allegedly operated a clinic without the appropriate licensure or proper oversight by a physician as required by Florida law. The investigation revealed that Alzate and his partner Garcia, neither who are physicians, billed the Medicaid program for services never rendered. The clinic owners also allegedly forged physicians’ signatures on medical reports and provided defective mammography services. FL

Tagged in: FCA State, Improper Medical Facility, Improper Medical Personnel, Laboratory and IDTF,

March 9, 2016

New Jersey announced that the owner of a now-defunct Bergen County used car dealership, D.I.B Leasing, along with three employees and a bookkeeper, have been charged with conspiracy, money laundering, and other offenses in connection with bank financing scam that allegedly netted $1.4 million in fraudulent loans for luxury cars. Prosecutors allege the defendants created fake employment records, inflated incomes, and supplied false pay stubs and fictitious employee verifications to dupe banks into approving auto financing for customers whose income levels did not qualify them for loans on the pricey vehicles. NJ

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud,

March 9, 2016

A Las Vegas court ordered Banc de Binary Ltd., ET Binary Options Ltd., BO Systems Ltd., BDB Services Ltd., and Oren Shabat Laurent to pay over $9 million in penalties and restitution for violating the CFTC's prohibition against trading binary options off-exchange.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, Regulatory Violations,

In Their Own Words — Loretta Lynch

Posted  03/9/16

--“IN SEVERAL CASES, CONSUMERS SUFFERED SEVERE LIVER DAMAGE.  AND ALTHOUGH THE COMPANY WAS ALLEGEDLY AWARE OF THE RISKS THEIR PRODUCT POSED, THEY CONTINUED TO SELL IT TO CONSUMERS.”

Attorney General Loretta Lynch discussing a case the DOJ brought against a company selling unsafe dietary supplements to U.S. consumers.

Tagged in: In Their Own Words,

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Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Client Brian Emery Profiled By The Kennebec Journal (published at centralmaine.com)

Posted  03/9/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team A Madison, Maine roofer was the key whistleblower in a lawsuit settled last week that recovered more than $400,000 over allegations a Bangor company cut corners on federal building projects in Maine.  Brian Emery helped expose the fraud allegations after he was hired as a subcontractor by Belcon Enterprises, also known at the time as Roof Systems of Maine, based in Bangor. The...

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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Whistleblower News From The Inside — March 9, 2016

Posted  03/9/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team DOJ goes after Volkswagon with anti-bank fraud law – The government is using the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (Firrea), recently used to go after banks in the wake of the Great Recession, to widen its probe of the car manufacturer’s emissions scandal.  Wall Street Journal 21st Century Oncology Inc. settles False Claims Act lawsuit for $34.7...
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