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DOJ Catch of the Week -- Olympus Corp.
Posted 03/4/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Olympus Corp. of America, the country's largest distributor of endoscopes and related equipment. On Tuesday, the company agreed to pay $623.2 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims for the company's violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute through a scheme to pay kickbacks to...
Whistleblower News From The Inside — March 4, 2016
Posted 03/4/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Trump university fraud “pretty straightforward” -- NY Attorney General Schneiderman said, "if you tell people we're going to teach you Donald Trump's secrets, and he never had any part in writing the curriculum, that's fraud," adding that thousands of students paid millions of dollars to the school. CNN
U.K. launches whistleblower champions -- The Financial Conduct...
March 3, 2016
New York announced an agreement with Endo Health Solutions Inc. and Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Endo”), which make and sell the long-acting opioid, Opana ER. The agreement requires Endo to cease all misrepresentations regarding the properties of Opana ER, to describe accurately the risk of addiction to Opana ER, and to summarize studies regarding Opana ER on its website. Endo must also create a program that will prevent its sales staff from promoting this powerful narcotic painkiller to health care providers who may be involved in the abuse and illegal diversion of opioids. Endo, an Irish company with U.S. headquarters in Pennsylvania, makes a variety of prescription drugs. Endo’s opioid drug Opana ER has been widely abused in New York State. NYIn Their Own Words — Richmond
Posted 03/3/16
-- “Home health agency owners who seek to boost profits by paying kickbacks to physicians in exchange for patient referrals will instead pay for their improper conduct at the settlement table.”
Special Agent in Charge Shimon R. Richmond of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). Click here for more.Whistleblower News From The Inside — March 3, 2016
Posted 03/3/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Energy pioneer McClendon dies in fiery car crash, a day after indictment alleging bid rigging – Former Chesapeake Energy Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon, a brash risk-taker who helped transform the U.S. energy industry with shale gas, died when his car slammed into an overpass on Wednesday, one day after being charged with breaking federal antitrust laws, police said. Read MoreMarch 3, 2016
A Utah man and three companies he controls have agreed to settle FTC charges that they assisted a deceptive work-at-home scheme that the FTC charged, in February 2014, with conning millions of dollars from consumers. The scheme, which did business as Coaching Department and Apply Knowledge, among other names, falsely promised consumers they could earn thousands of dollars a month by purchasing business coaching services. Under the settlement order, Ken Sonnenberg, Apply Knowledge LLC, eVertex Solutions LLC, and Supplier Source LLC are prohibited from making claims, or assisting others in making claims, about likely earnings without reliable, written substantiation. The order imposes a $500,000 judgement against the companies. FTCMarch 1, 2016
March 1, 2016 – Telecommunications company Qualcomm Inc. will pay $7.5 million to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by hiring relatives of Chinese government officials involved with the decision of whether to purchase Qualcomm’s mobile technology products. An SEC investigation also found Qualcomm provided gifts, travel, and entertainment to officials at government-owned telecom companies in China in an attempt to influence their purchasing decisions. SEC