In Their Own Words — Frink
Posted 09/9/15
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Whistleblower News From The Inside — September 9, 2015
Posted 09/9/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Auditors find fraud risks in visa program – Investigators have found risks in the program designed to give wealthy foreigners green cards in exchange for their investments in U.S. businesses that create jobs. Washington Post
VA whistleblower returns to work – Bradie Frink, a disabled veteran who was fired by the Department of Veterans Affairs after he sought help from...
September 9, 2015
Donovan Davis Jr., a former principal of Capital Blu Management, LLC, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on multiple counts of criminal conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with the operation of a fraudulent $17 million commodity pool. CFTCSeptember 8, 2015
Forex Capital Markets, LLC has agreed to pay $843,000 to settle charges that it failed to diligently supervise its officers’, employees’, and agents’ handling of accounts held in the name of a fraudulent foreign currency exchange pool, Revelation Forex Fund, LP. CFTCSeptember 8, 2015
The CFTC has charged Rodney Scott Phelps, Jason T. Castenir, and the companies they control - Maverick Asset Management, LLC and Maverick Investment Holdings, LLC – with fraudulently soliciting at least $1.2 million from members of the public to trade commodity futures in a pool, misappropriating more than $800,000 of pool participants’ funds for their personal use, and misrepresenting the profitability of their trading. CFTCIn Their Own Words — Serpico
Posted 09/8/15
-- "IF THE TICKS DON’T GET YOU, THE POLITICS WILL."
Legendary police whistleblower Frank Serpico on why he's running for local office in Stuyvesant, New York because "behind the lovely vistas and friendly faces lie bastions of malfeasance in local governments that rival the corruption he encountered in the Police Department." Click here for more.Whistleblower News from the Inside — September 8, 2015
Posted 09/8/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Serpico rides again -- The 79-year old former whistleblower cop is running for a spot on his local town board in Stuyvesant, New York to fight the ""old-boys network" run by entrenched Republicans who embrace cronyism and patronage." NYT
Pre-Labor Day DOJ False Claims Act bust -- The DOJ settled three whistleblower False Claims Actions Friday involving charges of...
Whistleblower News from the Inside -- September 4, 2015
Posted 09/4/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Tom Brady redeemed -- New York court nullifies the NFL's 4-game suspension of Patriot QB Brady, finding the arbitration award was procedurally unfair. Whistleblower Insider
Hospice chain and owner settle whistleblower False Claims Act charges -- St. Joseph Hospice Entities, which consists of 13 hospice facilities in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama, and its...
Constantine Cannon And Department of Justice Continue Joint Pursuit Against California Sleep-Clinic Chain
Posted 09/4/15
By Jessica T. Moore
Constantine Cannon LLP has filed an amended complaint on behalf of a whistleblower alleging multi-faceted fraud on the part of Bay Sleep Clinic and its owners and operators, and billing company Access Medical Consultants. The filing in United States ex rel. Dresser v. Qualium Corp., et al, Civil Action No. 12-1745 in the Northern District of California, comes on the same day the United...
Deflate-Gate Revisited: Court Strikes Down NFL Suspension of Tom Brady
Posted 09/4/15
By Gordon Schnell
In a legal decision heard round the sports world, New York federal judge Richard Berman yesterday nullified the four-game suspension the NFL had previously imposed on New England Patriots superstar Tom Brady. The punishment was meted out for Brady's alleged involvement in deflating the footballs he used to beat the Indianapolis Colts in last season's AFC Championship Game. But according to...