Whistleblower Group

October 9, 2014

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a settlement with retail specialty pharmacy Sorkin’s Ltd Rx. (d/b/a CareMed Pharmaceutical Services) resolving allegations it made false statements to the New York State Medicaid Program to secure expeditious prior authorizations for the coverage of specialty drugs, and that it submitted false claims to the New York State Medicaid Program for certain prescription medications that were restocked and resold and for refills that recipients never obtained. Sorkin’s will return $846,224 to Medicaid. NYAG

October 9, 2014

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced an agreement with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. to reimburse more than 31,000 Citi customers who were charged higher advisory fees than they negotiated. The agreement returns nearly $16 million to about 31,000 Citigroup customers. NYAG

October 8, 2014

The CFTC has settled charges against Friedberg Mercantile Group, Inc. of Toronto, Canada for secured amount deficiency, commingling of customer funds, and failure to timely report secured amount deficiency.  CFTC

October 8, 2014

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that his office, along with the Attorneys General of 49 other states and the District of Columbia, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Communications Commission, reached a $105M settlement with AT&T Mobility LLC resolving allegations that AT&T Mobility placed on consumers’ mobile telephone bills charges for third-party services that had not been authorized by consumers, a practice known as “cramming.” One common cramming charge is a $9.99-per-month premium text message subscription service (also known as PSMS) for horoscopes, trivia, and sports scores that consumers often never requested. NYAG

October 7, 2014

Nine Constantine Cannon antitrust litigation partners were selected to the 2014 Super Lawyers list and three associates were selected to the 2014 Rising Stars list. Jeffrey I. Shinder, Managing Partner of Constantine Cannon's New York office, and partners Axel Bernabe, Matthew L. Cantor, Ankur Kapoor, Gary J. Malone, Gordon Schnell and Alysia A. Solow were selected to the 2014 New York Super Lawyers list. W. Stephen Cannon, Chairman of Constantine Cannon, and partner Douglas E. Rosenthal were selected to the 2014 D.C. Super Lawyers list. Super Lawyers selected associates Rosa M. Morales, Taline Sahakian and Allison F. Sheedy as Rising Stars.