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Whistleblower News from the Inside - November 1, 2013
Posted 11/1/13
Model photoshopping exposed – ABC video explores the skinny on the extent of model photoshopping and its dangerous social consequences. ABC
Senate Judiciary Committee approves antitrust whistleblower bill – It aims to prevent retaliation against those reporting price-fixing violations to the DOJ. Reuters
Snowden inspiring more NSA leakers – The Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower...
Bring In the Whistleblowers and Pay Them - the Next Logical Step In Advancing Antitrust Enforcement
Posted 11/1/13
Competition Policy International (November 2013). Click here to read the article.
Too Much Junk Science
Posted 10/31/13
By Gordon Schnell
We read about them all the time. The latest major breakthrough in taming one disease or another. If not an ultimate cure-all, then at least a novel treatment to ease the condition or its associated symptoms. In some cases, these reported advances really do result in groundbreaking remedies that improve the lives of many. But in just as many cases it seems, after the initial hype has...
Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 29, 2013
Posted 10/29/13
Too much screen time for kids – With the average child spending 8 hours a day in front of a TV, cell phone or computer, the American Academy of Pediatrics calls for parents to significantly reduce their kids’ screen time. Chicago Tribune
Infosys pays $34M for visa fraud – The payment is to settle DOJ charges stemming from a whistleblower who alleged that the Indian software company illegally brought Indian...
Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 25, 2013
Posted 10/25/13
Whistleblower enforcement provides 20-to-1 return – A report by Taxpayers Against Fraud finds the government recovers $20 for every $1 it spends prosecuting healthcare fraud under the False Claims Act whistleblower statute. TAF
Top executive rushed security clearances – Employees at USIS, which performed checks on whistleblower Edward Snowden and alleged Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis (and millions of...
New Frontiers in Health Care Fraud
Posted 10/24/13
Tim McCormack was a Panel Moderator at the Thirteenth Annual Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund Conference
Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 22, 2013
Posted 10/22/13
More bad news on antibiotics overuse – A new Johns Hopkins report finds that feeding antibiotics to livestock is posing major public health risks but the farm and pharmaceutical lobbies have blocked efforts to stop it. Washington Post
A-Rod pinning hopes on MLB whistleblower – Adding potential fuel to allegations of a MLB witch hunt against him, Rodriguez claims to have an MLB insider to support to his...
Keynote Speech
Posted 10/19/13
October 19, 2013
Mary Inman presented at the Los Angeles County Bar Association 10th Annual Healthcare Law Compliance Symposium
Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 18, 2013
Posted 10/18/13
Wall Street Journal prohibited from disclosing LIBOR culprits – A UK court grants a request from the UK Serious Fraud Office preventing the paper from identifying individuals the UK plans to implicate in the LIBOR rate-fixing scheme, a press restriction unheard of in the U.S. WSJ
Snowden denies disclosing secrets to Russia – The NSA whistleblower says he dumped all his classified documents before fleeing to...