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Whistleblower News From The Inside - January 16, 2015
Posted 01/16/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Whistleblower says VA destroyed records, retaliated -- Whistleblower alleges staff at the VA’s Cleveland medical center destroyed records regarding the death of a patient to avoid unwanted publicity, then punished her and put her under surveillance after she revealed lapses in the patient’s care. Washington Times
Defense contractor pleads guilty to bribery and fraud-- The...
January 16, 2015
The CFTC ordered Summit Energy Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Louisville, Kentucky, to pay a $140,000 civil monetary penalty for acting as an unregistered commodity trading advisor. CFTCJanuary 16, 2015
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Sea Mar Community Health Centers agreed to pay $3.35M to settle charges of improperly billing Medicaid for thousands of dental appointments. According to the government, Sea Mar billed fluoride treatments as stand-alone appointments with a dentist or hygienist when they could have been performed much more cheaply by dental assistants as part of a patient’s regular six-month checkups. WAJanuary 16, 2015
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Citi, and Wells Fargo Bank agreed to pay $2.7M million and undertake obligations to facilitate the repair of defective property titles, resolving claims they violated Massachusetts foreclosure law and the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act by illegally foreclosing upon Massachusetts residents’ homes when the banks lacked the legal authority to do so. MAAfriLeaks -- A New, Secure Website for Whistleblowers in Africa
Posted 01/15/15
By Marlene Koury
AfriLeaks is a new whistleblower website aimed at safely connecting whistleblowers with investigative journalists to expose corruption and human rights abuses in Africa. It was developed in partnership with Italy’s Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights and the Africa Network of Centers for Investigative Journalism and is run by an alliance of African news organizations –...
In Their Own Words - Fourth Circuit decision in United States v. Triple Canopy, Inc.
Posted 01/15/15
-- “The Government’s decision to pay a contractor for providing base security in an active combat zone would be influenced by knowledge that the guards could not, for lack of a better term, shoot straight."
From the Fourth Circuit decision in United States v. Triple Canopy, Inc. reversing the district court’s dismissal of the government’s False Claims Act case against Triple Canopy for allegedly billing the...Fourth Circuit Embraces Expansive View of False Claims Act Fraud and Materiality In Triple Canopy Ruling
Posted 01/15/15
By Gordon Schnell
Another circuit court decision giving a properly expansive view of what it takes to make out a fraud claim under the False Claims Act. This one from the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Triple Canopy, Inc.. Before the Court were two key questions. One, whether a defense contractor's claim for payment still could be false when there was nothing false on the face of the invoice. And two,...
Whistleblower News From The Inside - January 14, 2015
Posted 01/14/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
SEC settles whistleblower complaint against BATS Global Markets Inc. -- The company agreed to pay $14 million to resolve charges that two exchanges it acquired last year did not accurately describe order types to customers. MarketWatch
Supreme Court hears False Claims Act oral argument -- A transcript of the oral argument heard by the Court yesterday in U.S. ex rel. Carter...