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SEC’s 23rd Whistleblower Award Goes to a “Company Outsider”
Posted 01/20/16
On Friday, January 15th, the SEC made an award of more than $700,000 to a whistleblower the agency described as a “company outsider who conducted a detailed analysis that led to a successful SEC enforcement action.”
The SEC’s whistleblower program explicitly provides for financial rewards to company outsiders by allowing “independent analysis” — even when based on publicly available information — to...
In Their Own Words — McDonald
Posted 01/20/16
-- “At VA[Veterans Affairs], we take whistleblower complaints seriously and will not tolerate retaliation against those who raise issues which may enable VA to better serve veterans.”
Secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, Bob McDonald.Whistleblower News From The Inside — January 20, 2016
Posted 01/20/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Sharp rise in number of students seeking loan forgiveness -- Thousands of students have applied for over $160 million in loan forgiveness from the U.S., claiming their schools defrauded them with false promises of future careers. Wall Street Journal
Office of Special Counsel reports huge increase in federal whistleblowers -- The surge in whistleblower tips appears to be...
January 20, 2016
A federal court in Rock Hill, South Carolina, ordered T-N-T of York County Inc. and TM Trucking of the Carolinas LLC, to stop violating their employment tax reporting, deposit and payment obligations. The government’s complaint alleged that T-N-T of York County and TM Trucking of the Carolinas together owed more than $2.7 million in federal employment and unemployment taxes for various periods from 2009 through 2014. DOJJanuary 19, 2016
New Jersey will receive a total of $2.7 million as a result of its participation in a global settlement with Qualitest Pharmaceuticals Inc. that resolves civil allegations the company mislabeled its multivitamin-with-fluoride tablets to indicate they were richer in fluoride than they actually were. Qualitest was the subject of a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2013 by a Florida dentist who alleged that it unlawfully represented its multivitamin tablets as containing levels of fluoride recommended by the American Dental Association (ADA) when they did not. NJIn Their Own Words — Kompass
Posted 01/19/16
-- “It is important for other staff to see that I was vindicated. . . . [O]therwise the message was: ‘If you try to do something similar to what Anders has done these will be the consequences.’”
Anders Kompass, the United Nations director of field operations for the office of the high commissioner for human rights, on being cleared of wrongdoing in connection with his disclosing confidential documents...Whistleblower News From The Inside — January 19, 2015
Posted 01/19/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
UN whistleblower who exposed sexual abuse by peacekeepers is exonerated -- "Anders Kompass, the director of field operations for the office of the high commissioner for human rights in Geneva, was suspended and faced dismissal after he passed confidential documents detailing the abuse of children by French troops in [Central African Republic] to the authorities in Paris because...
DOJ Catch Of The Week -- Kindred Healthcare
Posted 01/15/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Kentucky-based healthcare provider Kindred Healthcare, Inc. On Tuesday, the company and its two RehabCare Group subsidiaries agreed to pay $125 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act by knowingly causing skilled nursing facilities to submit false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation...
In Their Own Words — Stepanov
Posted 01/15/16