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October 21, 2015
United Parcel Service has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the false claims acts of 14 states, New York City, Washington D.C., and Chicago. Under contracts at issue between UPS and the government, UPS guaranteed delivery of packages by certain specified times the following day. The investigation began after a UPS employee filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit in Virginia alleging that a practice of falsifying package arrival times and logging in phony reasons for late arrivals went on company-wide. The UPS employee alleged that, in some cases, bogus exception codes excusing late deliveries were entered into the tracking system before UPS drivers had even arrived at locations where cumbersome security procedures and other delays had purportedly occurred. The state settlement follows an earlier $25 million settlement with the federal government. NJ; NYOctober 21, 2015
The CFTC sued Gregory L. Gramalegui of Vail, Colorado, for fraud, making false statements to the CFTC, failing to make required advertising disclosures, and violating a prior CFTC administrative order. CFTCIn Their Own Words — Millennium Health
Posted 10/21/15
— "Trying to make it rain liquid gold baby!”
Email from a sales representative at Millennium Health, a urine screening company, quoted in the government’s False Claims Act lawsuit that settled earlier this week for $256 million. Millennium Health faced allegations that it billed the government for unnecessary tests.Whistleblower News From The Inside — October 21, 2015
Posted 10/21/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Crime goes up, prosecution goes down -- A report from Syracuse University reveals that corporate crime has been rising over the past decade -- but the DOJ has been prosecuting less of it. Ring of Fire
Whistleblower intimidation or honest coincidence? -- The mother of a former Predator drone operator and current whistleblower, Brandon Bryant, was told by Air Force...
October 20, 2015
Alan James Watson, Cash Flow Financial LLC, and Michael S. Potts have been ordered to pay over $91 million in fines and restitution for operating a commodity pool Ponzi scheme. CFTCOctober 20, 2015
A federal judge has ordered John R. Bullar and his company, Executive Management Advisors LLC, to pay over $31 million in penalties and restitution for fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement, and operating a Ponzi scheme. CFTCOctober 20, 2015
The CFTC ordered BNP Paribas Securities Corp. to pay a $140,000 penalty on charges that the company improperly invested customer segregated funds. CFTCIn Their Own Words — Kiriakou
Posted 10/20/15
-- "All of us need to start treating whistleblowers as guardians, not traitors. And if we value what freedoms we have left, we should demand that our government do the same."
John Kiriakou, former CIA analyst and whistleblower and now an associate fellow for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.Whistleblower News From The Inside — October 20, 2015
Posted 10/20/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Millennium Health to pay $256 million to settle whistleblower charges -- The whistleblower and government claimed the lab testing company violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for medically unnecessary urine drug and genetic testing and for providing kickbacks to physicians for referrals. DOJ
Citigroup accused of improperly avoiding $800M in New York State taxes...