In Their Own Words -- Grassley
Posted 08/7/15
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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 7, 2015
Posted 08/7/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Pharma company’s First Amendment rights trump the FDA’s marketing rules – A judge in the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction allowing Amarin Pharma Inc. to make truthful statements about its omega-3 drug, Vascepa, even if they pertain to off-label use of the drug. Reuters
New SEC whistleblower rule published – The SEC has issued a new rule...
Moving Beyond the "Ag" In "Ag-Gag" -- the Next Wave of Anti-Whistleblower Legislation?
Posted 08/7/15
Huffington Post (August 7, 2015). Click here to read the article.
August 7, 2015
The CFTC has filed an enforcement action against Gary Creagh and Wall Street Pirate Management, LLC, both of New York, for making false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or omissions to the National Futures Association. CFTCAugust 7, 2015
The FTC charged a data broker operation, including Sequoia One LLC and Gen X Marketing Group LLC, with illegally selling payday loan applicants’ financial information to a scam operation that took millions of dollars from consumers by debiting their bank accounts and charging their credit cards without their consent. According to the FTC’s complaint, the data broker enterprise bought loan applications from the operators of payday loan websites, and got others directly from consumers via their own payday loan websites. Instead of passing on those applications to legitimate payday lenders, the defendants sold the information to companies that raided the consumers’ accounts for at least $7.1 million. FTCWhistleblower News From The Inside -- August 6, 2015
Posted 08/6/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Decision in 60-day repayment rule case puts providers on high alert -- Healthcare providers that receive an overpayment from the government must report and return the overpayment within 60 days of the date they “identify” the overpayment. Those who don’t may violate the False Claims Act. In the first court decision interpreting this rule, a federal judge in New York...
Will Idaho Be the End of Ag-Gag?
Posted 08/6/15
By Molly Knobler and Gordon Schnell
Animal rights activists don’t get many legal wins, but this is a big one. On Tuesday in a 28-page, carefully reasoned opinion that pulled no punches, Chief Judge for the District of Idaho Lynn Winmill found Idaho’s “Ag-Gag” law unconstitutional under both the Free Speech and Equal Protection clauses. This was the law specifically aimed at criminalizing whistleblowers...
The AseraCare Trial Gears Up and Creates Ripples for Larger Hospice Industry
Posted 08/6/15
By Mary Inman and Ari Yampolsky
The issue teed up in the Government's trial against AseraCare cuts to the core of Medicare’s hospice benefit. A Medicare beneficiary is eligible for hospice care only if two doctors certify that she is “terminally ill.” This means that her illness will lead to her death within six months, if the illness runs its normal course. Because Medicare beneficiaries who choose...
August 6, 2015
The CFTC ordered Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC to pay a $300,000 penalty for failing to hold sufficient U.S. dollars in segregated accounts in the United States to meet all of its obligations to cleared swaps customers. CFTCIn Their Own Words -- Stein
Posted 08/5/15