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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- September 14, 2015

Posted  09/14/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Whistleblower behind Afghanistan bid-rigging settlement – PAE Government Services and RM Asia agree to pay $1.45 million for allegations that former managers funneled subcontracts to other companies owned by them or their relatives, using confidential bid information to beat out honest competitors in vehicle maintenance and training contracts in war-torn Afghanistan.  Read More

New CFTC Program May Have Some People Seeing Red

Posted  09/11/15
By Jason Enzler There is a new program in town to help investors protect themselves from fraud.  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has starting publishing the identities of foreign entities that the CFTC believes may be involved in illegal practices in what the Commission calls the RED List. With the RED List, investors are now able to go online to investigate whether companies have come under...

DOJ Catch of the Week -- Alive Hospice

Posted  09/11/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Tennessee-based non-profit hospice care provider Alive Hospice, Inc. Yesterday, the DOJ announced the company paid roughly $1.5 million to reimburse the government for alleged violations of the False Claims Act through overbilling of Medicare and TennCare for hospice services. See DOJ Press Release.   The...

In Their Own Words — Eskin

Posted  09/11/15

-- “We’ve waited a long time for the rules and the longer it takes [for the food-safety law] to be fully implemented, more people are going to get sick from preventable illnesses.”

Sandra Eskin, director of food safety for Pew Charitable Trusts, on the FDA's new rules to tighten food safety requirements which will permit federal officials to take action before contaminated food products land on grocery-store...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — September 11, 2015

Posted  09/11/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team New FDA rules tighten food safety requirements -- "The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday finalized new rules that for the first time will require U.S. food manufacturers to develop and implement detailed plans to prevent foodborne illness."  WSJ Justice Dept. vow to go after bankers may prove a promise hard to keep -- "The Justice Department acknowledges the...

September 11, 2015

The CFTC has charged Hannes Tulving, Jr. of Newport Beach, California, and his company, The Tulving Company, Inc., with fraudulent solicitation and misappropriation of at least $17.8 million from over 380 customers for the purchase and sale of precious metals.  CFTC

In Their Own Words -- Yates

Posted  09/10/15

--  "Corporations can only commit crimes through flesh-and-blood people.  It’s only fair that the people who are responsible for committing those crimes be held accountable.” 

Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, discussing new rules prioritizing the prosecution of executives, not just their companies, in corporate scandals.  Click here for more.

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- September 10, 2015

Posted  09/10/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team DOJ issues new rules to prosecutors nationwide targeting Wall Street executives -- "The Justice Department issued new policies on Wednesday that prioritize the prosecution of individual employees – not just their companies – and put pressure on corporations to turn over evidence against their executives."  NYT Second Circuit takes expansive view of protections for SEC...

September 10, 2015

The Washington Attorney General announced a suit against CareOne Dental Corporation and related individuals for Medicaid fraud. The suit alleges that the defendants systematically billed Medicaid for non-covered services which they misrepresented in their billings, “upcoded” services (more expensive versions of what they actually performed), and services they simply didn’t provide. The Attorney General’s Office currently estimates at least 20 percent of the claims CareOne Dental presented to Medicaid from January 2011 to June of 2015 were fraudulent, which would amount to approximately $1 million in single damages. WA

September 9, 2015

Constantine Cannon attorney Jessica Moore was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News article, Saratoga: Owners of Bay Sleep Clinic accused of defrauding Medicare. Click here to read the article.
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