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Whistleblower News from the Inside - April 29, 2014
Posted 04/29/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Harsh words for Hillary on commitment to protecting whistleblowers – “At best, Clinton is ignorant about federal whistleblower laws,” or “she is willfully misleading her audience.” Atlantic
SCOTUS to rule on whistleblower free speech rights --The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether the First Amendment protects public employees from retaliation if they testify about...April 28, 2014
The CFTC obtained a Consent Order against Tunney & Associates, P.C, an accounting firm with offices in Hammond, Indiana and Orland Park, Illinois, and Michael Tunney, its sole owner and a certified public accountant, requiring T&A and Tunney jointly to pay a $100,000 civil penalty for violating CFTC Regulations when conducting audits for The Linn Group, a CFTC-registered Futures Commission Merchant. CFTCWhistleblower News from the Inside - April 25, 2014
Posted 04/25/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
VA is expanding its investigation of whistleblower complaint – The complaint alleges lengthy delays in waits for appointments that has led to as many as 40 veteran deaths. WSJ
Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel settle antitrust suit for $300M – The four tech giants were sued in a class action brought on behalf of 64,000 of their engineers for allegedly agreeing not to solicit...
April 25, 2014
The CFTC obtained a Consent Order of Permanent Injunction that bars Australian firm Halifax Investment Services, Ltd. from soliciting orders to trade foreign currency (forex) from US residents who do not qualify as eligible contract participants (ECPs) and from offering to be the counterparty to US residents’ forex transactions without registering with the CFTC. The Order settles CFTC charges that Halifax unlawfully solicited members of the public to engage in forex transactions and operated as a Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (RFED) without being registered with the CFTC. CFTCDC Circuit Creates Split on Scope of First-to-File Rule Under False Claims Act
Posted 04/24/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Under the so-called first-to-file rule, “[w]hen a person brings an action under the False Claims Act, no person other than the Government may intervene or bring a related action based on the facts underlying the pending action.” 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(5). The rule serves two primary purposes. It encourages whistleblowers with allegations of fraud to come forward as quickly as...
Losing Focus – The “Irrational Exuberance” Surrounding College Sports
Posted 04/24/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Most of us are well familiar with the multi-billion dollar business big-time college sports have become and their questionable impact on the so-called “student-athletes” who fuel them. See The Hypocrisy of Big-Time College Sports. Questions of amateurism, exploitation and academic failure and fraud associated with these major sports have been swirling about for years. And...
April 23, 2014
Amedisys home health companies agreed to pay $150M resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by allegedly billing Medicare for nursing and therapy services not medically necessary or provided to patients who were not homebound, and by otherwise misrepresenting patients’ conditions to increase its Medicare payments. The allegations were first raised in several qui tam lawsuit filed by former Amedisys employees under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. DOJWhistleblower News from the Inside - April 22, 2014
Posted 04/22/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
UNC whistleblower resigns – The whistleblower whose research on athletes' literacy caused a firestorm of controversy at the University of North Carolina is leaving because of the “hostile work environment” that followed her reporting. CNN
Skeptical Justices hear Coca-Cola defend its Minute-Maid label against Pom – The rival juice maker claims false advertising in the...
Whistleblower News from the Inside - April 18, 2014
Posted 04/18/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Chinese whistleblowers on the rise – The SEC received one whistleblower tip per week from China last year, double the year before and five times more than in 2011, but the “SEC is just one of many channels for this new breed of Chinese whistleblowers.” Reuters
NHS whistleblower wins landmark retaliation case – Dr. Raj Mattu, a cardiologist, was suspended for 8 years...