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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 27, 2015

Posted 08/27/15

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Edward Snowden’s legacy? – Meet Cherax snowden, the crayfish species named after the NSA whistleblower. Ars Technica No retreat in Vermont fraud investigation – Vermont’s attorney general is conducting a criminal investigation into alleged Medicaid fraud at the Brattleboro Retreat, a private psychiatric hospital, following a whistleblower’s complaints. The...

In Their Own Words — Alvarez

Posted 08/26/15

--"The agency has shown a long-standing intolerance for whistleblowers while conducting faith-based management of its contractors regardless of poor performance. This has bred a culture in which no safety misdeed goes unrewarded.”

Former senior Energy Department official Robert Alvarez commenting on problems with the Department’s efforts to clean-up the Hanford nuclear waste site.

Tagged in: In Their Own Words,

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 26, 2015

Posted 08/26/15

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Whistleblower leaks report showing design flaws in nuclear waste treatment plant – An anonymous engineer working at the Hanford nuclear waste plant has released an internal report that cites serious problems with the plant’s proposal to clean up and store nuclear waste left over from the production of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Washington Post Former owner of...

August 25, 2015

An Illinois federal court has ordered Charles Mosley, a former senior vice president at Sentinel Management Group, Inc., to pay over $2 million to resolve charges of misusing customer funds. CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,

In Their Own Words — Blatter

Posted 08/25/15

-- "THE INSTITUTION IS NOT CORRUPT, THERE IS NO CORRUPTION IN FOOTBALL."

Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter in defending soccer's world governing body from highly publicized charges of wide-spread corruption. Click here for more.

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Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 25, 2015

Posted 08/25/15

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Why phone fraud starts with a silent call -- "They're trying to see: Are they getting a human on the other end? You even cough and it knows you're there." NPR Health Care Solutions Network medical director convicted in $63M health care fraud scheme -- According to the evidence, the now-defunct partial hospitalization program billed Medicare and Medicaid for mental...

August 24, 2015

The New York Attorney General announced a $6 million dollar settlement with Empire State Home Care Services, Inc. (Empire), a home care agency operating out of Brooklyn, NY. The settlement resolves claims that Empire improperly reported its home health aide hours as well as administrative and general expenses on cost reports filed between 2002 and 2005. These cost reports were used to set the reimbursement rates that Empire received from the state for the years 2004 through 2007 and resulted in over $3 million in reimbursements to which Empire was not entitled. NY

Tagged in: Government Investigation, Home Health and Hospice,

August 24, 2015

The New York Attorney General announced settlement agreements with five defendants in a False Claims Act case that will return more than $8 million to the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The agreements resolve claims that SpecialCare Hospital Management Corporation defrauded Medicaid and Medicare by illegally referring patients to unlicensed drug and alcohol treatment programs in exchange for kickbacks. Investigation of the defendants began after whistleblowers Mathew I. Gelfand, M.D. and Enrico Montaperto filed complaints under New York’s False Claims Act. NY

Tagged in: FCA State, Improper Medical Facility, Improper Medical Personnel, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

In Their Own Words — Atwater

Posted 08/24/15

-- “Stealing from the state of Florida takes money from the pockets of all taxpayers in Florida, and it’s absolutely intolerable.”

State of Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater concerning US Foods’ settlement of claims it unlawfully inflated prices for food supply services. For more click here.

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Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 24, 2015

Posted 08/24/15

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Food-supply giant to pay $15.5 million to State of Florida for inflated billing – US Foods will pay to resolve whistleblower allegations and a state investigation that uncovered its deceitful billing practice of not passing along discounts received from suppliers as required by agreements with the Florida Department of Corrections. Law360 Empire State Home Care Services...

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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 27, 2015

In Their Own Words — Alvarez

--"The agency has shown a long-standing intolerance for whistleblowers while conducting faith-based management of its contractors regardless of poor performance. This has bred a culture in which no safety misdeed goes unrewarded.”

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 26, 2015

August 25, 2015

In Their Own Words — Blatter

-- "THE INSTITUTION IS NOT CORRUPT, THERE IS NO CORRUPTION IN FOOTBALL."

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 25, 2015

August 24, 2015

August 24, 2015

In Their Own Words — Atwater

-- “Stealing from the state of Florida takes money from the pockets of all taxpayers in Florida, and it’s absolutely intolerable.”

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 24, 2015

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