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UK Rejects Whistleblower Rewards; At Least For Now

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...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - June 24, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Home health agency pleads guilty to kickback scheme --  The owner of Nestor’s Health Services in Miami pleaded guilty in a $6.5 million health care fraud scheme involving paying kickbacks to referring physicians and not providing services or providing services that were not medically necessary.  DOJ Whistleblower says VA covered up deaths – A new whistleblower in the...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - June 20, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team False Claims Act lawsuit against Lance Armstrong can proceed -- A federal judge has rejected Lance Armstrong's attempt to dismiss a $100 million False Claims Act lawsuit filed against him.  USA Today NJ arrests owner of Diagnostic Imaging Affiliates for Medicaid Fraud -- Rehan Zuberi and 12 associates are charged with bribing doctors to send patients for MRIs, PET scans and...

DOJ Catch of the Week -- SunTrust

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to SunTrust Mortgage Inc., the mortgage lending arm of SunTrust Bank. On Tuesday, the Justice Department, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and virtually every state attorney general in the country, reached a $968 million agreement with the bank to resolve...

Breaking: SCOTUS Sides with Public Employee in Retaliation Case

By Marlene Koury This morning, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that public employees cannot be fired or retaliated against for testifying as concerned citizens about corruption. The case involved a community college employee, Edward Lane, who was fired after testifying during a 2006 federal corruption trial that a state legislator was on the college's payroll, despite doing no work.   Even though the...

SEC Settles First Whistleblower Retaliation Case; Warns There Will Be More

By Jason Enzler The Securities and Exchange Commission announced another ground-breaking development for its whistleblower program earlier this week, releasing details on its first whistleblower retaliation case filed under the Dodd-Frank Act.  In doing so, the SEC sent an unambiguous message:  They are just getting started in going after companies that retaliate against whistleblowers. At issue was...

Low Scores for US Healthcare . . . Again; Is Help on the Way?

By Gordon Schnell The US healthcare system is the most expensive in the world.  Yet, it continues to rank poorly when compared to the healthcare systems of other developed countries.  In fact, when compared to the most developed countries around the globe, the state of our overall healthcare system comes in dead last.  At least that is the finding of the report issued this week by The Commonwealth Fund titled

Whistleblower News from the Inside - June 17, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team SEC brings first whistleblower retaliation action --  Paradigm Capital and its owner agreed to pay $2.2M for engaging in prohibited transactions and then sought  retribution against the employee who reported the illicit trading activity.  Compliance Week New study shows insider trading runs rampant -- According to the detailed study by professors from NYU and McGill...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - June 13, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Whistleblower reveals highway guardrails become “deadly spears on impact” -- For any of you who travel on highways or have loved ones who do (in other words, probably all of us), this report on a whistleblower lawsuit is worth a read.  Bloomberg SEC warns against whistleblower retaliation -- The agency says it plans to take harsher measures, above and beyond back pay and...

Third Circuit Deepens Divide on What Courts Require of Qui Tam Complaints

By Jason Enzler Last Friday, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that it would join three other circuit courts in rejecting a more restrictive view of what qui tam relators must allege in order to survive challenges to their False Claims Act complaints. In doing so, the Third Circuit’s decision in Foglia, ex rel. U.S. v. Renal Ventures Management, LLC has deepened the split forming among the circuit...