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Whistleblower News from the Inside - July 1, 2014

Posted  07/1/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team BNP admits guilt and agrees to record $8.9B fine -- Paris-based BNP Paribas agrees to enter a guilty plea and pay $8.9B for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act by processing billions of dollars of transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Sudanese, Iranian, and Cuban entities subject to U.S....
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July 1, 2014

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a $24.6M settlement of his Charities Bureau’s investigation into direct mail fundraising abuses at what has become one of the country’s largest veterans’ charities, the Disabled Veterans National Foundation. The abuses, the investigation found — including misleading solicitations and failure to disclose conflicts of interest — were perpetrated by DVNF’s two outside, for-profit direct mail vendors, Quadriga Art and Convergence Direct Marketing. Under the settlement, Quadriga, which produced and sent out the mailings and played the dominant role in running DVNF’s fundraising efforts, will pay $9.7M in damages, and Convergence, which designed the solicitations and provided other advice, will pay $300,000 in damages. This $10M will go to help support and improve the lives of disabled American veterans. In addition, Quadriga will forgive $13.8M in debt that DVNF owes to Quadriga, and adopt a number of significant reforms to improve transparency and set a higher ethical bar for the direct mail charitable solicitations industry. Quadriga will pay an additional $800,000 to the State of New York for costs and fees. The settlement is believed to represent the largest amount of financial relief ever obtained in the U.S. for deceptive charitable fundraising. NYAG

Whistleblower News from the Inside - June 27, 2014

Posted  06/27/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team China commodities fraud widens -- China’s commodities fraud scandal grows as the Chinese government confirms gold contracts have also been faked and as news of a new private lawsuit hits accusing the two main companies under investigation for suspected fraud for acting as guarantor in several contracts to import aluminum. NYT Ask GAP’s Tom Devine anything today on Reddit...
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DOJ Catch Of The Week -- Omnicare

Posted  06/27/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to Ohio-based Omnicare Inc., the country’s largest provider of pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services to nursing homes.  On Wednesday, the company agreed to pay $124 million to settle government charges of offering improper financial incentives to skilled nursing facilities in return for their continued selection of...

Tagged in: Catch of the Week,

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False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Lance Armstrong To Move Forward

Posted  06/26/14
By Jason Enzler Late last week, Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins (sitting by designation at the D.C. District Court) gave the government and whistleblower Floyd Landis a green light to proceed with their False Claims Act lawsuit against famed cyclist Lance Armstrong and others.  At stake is over $100 million in claimed damages and penalties for an alleged doping scheme involving the U.S. cycling team. Landis, a...
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GAO Report Finds Medicaid Managed Care Vulnerable To Fraud

Posted  06/26/14
By Marlene Koury A new study conducted by the US Government Accountability Office ("GAO") shows that the Medicaid managed care program is vulnerable to serious health care fraud.  The study found that the weakness is primarily due to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") delegating managed care oversight to the states – but without providing them with clear guidance and resources to combat...

Tagged in: Managed Care,

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UK Rejects Whistleblower Rewards; At Least For Now

Posted  06/26/14
By Gordon Schnell The good news is the United Kingdom has spoken loud and clear on the critical role whistleblowers must play in rooting out fraud and misconduct in the workplace.  The bad news is it continues to believe whistleblower rewards is a bad idea.  This comes out of the response released yesterday by the UK Department for Business Innovation & Skills to the "Call for Evidence" it put out last year...

Tagged in: International Whistleblowers,

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June 25, 2014

Ohio-based Omnicare Inc., the country’s largest provider of pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services to nursing homes, agreed to pay $124 million to settle government charges of offering improper financial incentives to skilled nursing facilities in return for their continued selection of Omnicare to supply drugs to their elderly Medicare and Medicaid patients. Donald Gale, former employee of Omnicare Inc., will receive a whistleblower award of roughly $17M from the settlement.  DOJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Pharma Fraud, SNF, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

June 24, 2014

Constantine Cannon partner Gordon Schnell quoted in Compliance Week on the SEC's whistleblower retaliation action against Paradigm Capital. Click here to read the article.
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