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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...

August 24, 2015

The FTC is mailing refund checks to consumers who lost money buying dietary supplements, Speak and Speak Smooth, deceptively marketed as proven effective at treating childhood speech disorders, including those associated with autism. The refunds are from money collected through a settlement, under which the NourishLife, LLC defendants agreed to stop making allegedly deceptive claims that their products develop and maintain normal, healthy speech and language capabilities in children. FTC

Tagged in: Antitrust Enforcement,

In Their Own Words — Buchwald

Posted 08/21/15

-- "Even though he's cooperated, he committed enormous crimes…it isn't enough to say, 'I've been caught, I'll cooperate and everything will be right with the world and I'll just go home.'"

U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald commenting on sentencing of former Park Avenue Bank president Charles Antonucci Sr.

Tagged in: In Their Own Words,

SEC Enforcement Spotlight – ITG Pays Over $20 Million To Settle Charges Related To Its “Dark Pool”

Posted 08/21/15

Brokerage company ITG, Inc. and its affiliate AlterNet Securities will pay $20.3 million to settle charges that they operated a secret trading desk and misused the confidential trading information of dark pool subscribers. See SEC Press Release. In 1987, ITG created POSIT, an alternative trading system or “dark pool,” for subscribers such as asset managers, broker-dealers, and institutional investors to...

Tagged in: Dark Pools, Market Manipulation and Trading Violations, Securities Fraud,

DOJ Catch Of The Week -- US Investigations Services

Posted 08/21/15

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to US Investigations Services Inc. (USIS) and its parent company, Altegrity. On Wednesday, the Northern Virginia-based companies agreed to settle charges that USIS violated the False Claims Act by failing to provide proper background checks as required under its contract with the Office of Personnel Management...

Tagged in: Catch of the Week,

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 21, 2015

Posted 08/21/15

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Former Park Avenue Bank president sentenced to prison in bailout fraud -- Charles Antonucci Sr., the first person convicted of trying to rip off the federal bailout program, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for, among other crimes, bank bribery, self-dealing, embezzlement of bank funds and a failed effort to fraudulently get more than $11 million worth of taxpayer rescue...

In Their Own Words — Foster

Posted 08/20/15

-- “I NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED. WE ALL NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED.”

Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, ex-CEO of Petrobras, Brazil’s state-run oil company, commenting on the corruption scandal that has rocked the Brazilian government. Click here for more.

Tagged in: In Their Own Words,

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 20, 2015

Posted 08/20/15

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team USIS/Altegrity will forego $30 million to settle FCA allegations – Background investigation service USIS, responsible for vetting the Navy Yard shooter, will forego claim to $30 million payment to settle FCA allegations that the company provided shoddy background checks. DOJ Alabama woman pleads guilty in $7.5 million tax fraud scheme – Talashia Hinton pleads guilty to...

August 20, 2015

Three construction companies have agreed to settle for a total of $1.4 million to resolve allegations they falsely certified compliance with minority-owned subcontractor requirements on multiple public construction contracts in Massachusetts. The Commonwealth’s complaint alleges that CTA Construction Company, Inc., MDR Construction Company, Inc., and minority-owned business enterprise Luxor Equipment Corporation, Inc., now known as Margen, Inc. violated the Massachusetts False Claims Act in connection with three contracts. MA

Tagged in: Contract Non-Compliance, Government Investigation,

In Their Own Words — Klein

Posted 08/19/15

-- "At that moment, I did nothing, because I was too scared, and I didn’t know if I could find anyone to believe me, because who was I?”

Whistleblower Mark Klein describing his discovery of the NSA’s spying on the AT&T network.

Tagged in: In Their Own Words,

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Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 24, 2015

August 24, 2015

In Their Own Words — Buchwald

-- "Even though he's cooperated, he committed enormous crimes…it isn't enough to say, 'I've been caught, I'll cooperate and everything will be right with the world and I'll just go home.'"

SEC Enforcement Spotlight – ITG Pays Over $20 Million To Settle Charges Related To Its “Dark Pool”

DOJ Catch Of The Week -- US Investigations Services

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 21, 2015

In Their Own Words — Foster

-- “I NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED. WE ALL NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED.”

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 20, 2015

August 20, 2015

In Their Own Words — Klein

-- "At that moment, I did nothing, because I was too scared, and I didn’t know if I could find anyone to believe me, because who was I?”

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