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July 15, 2015
A Hawaii administrative panel determined that Liberty Dialysis was overpaid over $7 million for treatments given to Medicaid patients between 2006 and 2010. While the Attorney General stated that the original overpayments were the result of a state computer error, Hawaii also announced that it was pursuing litigation against Liberty, which is alleged to have known it was being overpaid and continued to submit claims in a way designed to continue those overpayments. HIWhistleblower News From The Inside — July 15, 2015
Posted 07/15/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Whistleblower’s phone call halts child-endangerment on set of Divergent movie sequel. After a whistleblower’s frantic calls, union representatives stepped in to halt the shooting of chaotic scenes with child actors, some as young as four, scrambling through a gauntlet of 100+ untrained adult extras swinging metal clubs, axes and machetes. Deadline.
Nine defendants...
In Their Own Words - Poitras
Posted 07/14/15
-- “I AM FILING THIS SUIT IN SUPPORT OF THE COUNTLESS OTHER LESS HIGH-PROFILE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN SUBJECTED TO YEARS OF KAFKAESQUE HARASSMENT AT THE BORDERS. WE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW HOW THIS SYSTEM WORKS AND WHY WE ARE TARGETED.”
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras discussing reasons behind her filing a lawsuit against the U.S. government. Click here for more.Whistleblower News From The Inside
Posted 07/14/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Citizenfour filmmaker suing over alleged harassment -- Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. government to find out why she has been searched, questioned and subject to enhanced security screenings over the course of six years at U.S. and overseas airports. Time
Amphastar whistleblower lawsuit against Sanofi...
DOJ Enforcement Spotlight -- Cancer Doctor Farid Fata
Posted 07/14/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Last Friday, the Department of Justice secured a 45-year prison sentence against the now infamous Detroit-area doctor, Farid Fata. He was also ordered to forfeit $17.6 million of illegal reimbursements he obtained from Medicare and private insurance companies. This stems from his guilty plea in September 2014 to violating the False Claims Act with a health care fraud scheme...
In Their Own Words -- Fata
Posted 07/13/15
-- “I MISUSED MY TALENTS, YES, AND PERMITTED THIS SIN TO ENTER ME BECAUSE OF POWER AND GREED."
Farid Fata, the Detroit area cancer doctor addressing the court before being sentence to 45 years in prison for mistreating over 550 people, including making false diagnoses and administering chemotherapy to patients who did not have cancer.Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 13, 2015
Posted 07/13/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Prosecutors go after fraud at Veterans Affairs – One case involves a VA employee taking more than $1.2 million in kickbacks; another involves an employee who stole gravestones from a cemetery to floor his garage. Washington Post
Time to modernize the nursing home system – Officials intend to make sweeping changes to the rules that nursing homes must follow in order to...
IRS Releases Another Report on Whistleblower Program
Posted 07/10/15
By Jason Enzler
The Internal Revenue Service just released its annual report to Congress regarding its whistleblower program – and it reveals a program that at first blush is just as disappointing as it was last year. In fact, a comparison of the two years suggests that the IRS whistleblower program may even have become less effective than it was previously.
For example, in FY 2013, the IRS received over...