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Whistleblower Spotlight -- Deceased VA Whistleblower Christopher Kirkpatrick

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Christopher Kirkpatrick, the 38-year old clinical psychologist who took his own life after being fired from the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center for complaining about the treatment of his patients there.  Kirkpatrick would appear to be just one of the scores of whistleblowers who have been retaliated against for stepping up to...

In Their Own Words -- Sparrow

-- "It shows the incentives provided for whistleblowers are working well, and all the other controls and detection systems are failing miserably."

Malcolm Sparrow, a health care fraud expert at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the increasing number of whistleblower actions challenging fraud in the Medicare Advantage healthcare program.  Click here for more.

Whistleblower News From The Inside - April 22, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Real Housewives of NJ star Jim Marchese scores millions in whistleblower payouts -- The small mortgage firm he owns recently collected $8.5 million for helping spur the DOJ’s record $16.65B mortgage fraud settlement with Bank of America, and in 2007 he received $1.6M million after reporting his former employer, a Seattle pharmaceuticals firm now called CTI BioPharma Corp.,...

In Their Own Words -- Marchese

-- “I’m trained as an attorney, I’m Sicilian, and I’m from New Jersey.  If I see you kick a puppy, I’m going to say something.  It’s not within me to not say something.”

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jim Marchese on the recent $8.5 million whistleblower award his mortgage company received in connection with the government’s record $16.65 billion settlement last summer with Bank of America Corp....

SEC Enforcement Spotlight — BlackRock Advisors

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team BlackRock Advisors LLC agreed to pay a $12 million penalty to settle SEC charges it breached its fiduciary duty by failing to disclose a conflict of interest created by the outside business activity of a top-performing portfolio manager.  The firm also must engage an independent compliance consultant to conduct an internal review.  See SEC Press Release According to the...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — April 21, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team  Whistleblower talks about $100M lawsuit against IU Health -- Dr. Judith Robinson, a former medical director within the system, brought a whistleblower lawsuit against Indiana's largest health network alleging it defrauded taxpayers of $100M while risking the health of low-income mothers and their babies.  Greensburg Daily News Teva to pay $512M to settle suit over delay of...

In Their Own Words -- Eisinger

-- "IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY WHISTLEBLOWERS CAN SEEM A LITTLE CRAZY, IT'S BECAUSE ANYBODY WHO IS NOT A LITTLE BIT CRAZY WOULD BACK AWAY FROM THE ORDEAL OF CONFRONTING A CORPORATE BEHEMOTH OR GRINDING GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY."

Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica reporter, on his story of Halliburton whistleblower Tony Menendez whom Eisinger reports "there’s nothing crazy about . . . beyond an optimism that persists even when...

In Their Own Words -- Illingworth

-- "It was one of those moments, I think, that you can sort of -- if you’re plotting it on a graph, the whole game changed from that point on, because, I guess, I had the balls to stand up and I told it how it was."

Simon Illingworth, former Melbourne, Australia police sergeant who helped expose police corruption and is now enjoying life as a farmer in rural Victoria, growing garlic and raising cattle, who recently...

In Their Own Words -- Weber

-- “[I] told them everything: 'This is wrong, this is unethical, you’re going to get sued.' . . . It wasn’t about the money, and it still isn’t.”

Heidi Weber, a former Dean of Minnesota-based for-profit Globe University who won nearly $400,000 against the school which she accused of firing her for complaining about unethical practices. Click here for more.

In Their Own Words -- Urvoas

-- “The Snowden case has demonstrated the need to create conditions so that agents can denounce abuses by the intelligence services.”

Jean-Jacques Urvoas, member of the French National Assembly, on his proposed amendment that would legalize the leak of information by intelligence employees if they want to expose an abuse of power by their own authorities. Click here for more.