Whistleblower News From The Inside -- February 23, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Former employee accuses Tesla of selling defective cars – A recently-filed lawsuit claims Tesla intentionally sold defective cars to customers as "used" or "demo/loaner" vehicles. The plaintiff, Adam Williams, is a former regional manager for Tesla in New Jersey who started working at the company in 2011, and claims he was demoted and fired after reporting the practice to his superiors. The lawsuit alleges that, during...

Greek Parliament Opens Investigation into Pharmaceutical Bribery

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team After twenty hours of debate, the Greek Parliament has approved the creation of a committee to investigate accusations that Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, bribed at least ten high-level politicians. The investigation will now hold separate and secret votes on whether each of the ten involved politicians should be investigated. The list of politicians includes two former Prime Ministers, as well as the current...

Whistleblower News From The Inside - February 15, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Indian bank uncovers $1.8B fraud — A single branch of Punjab National Bank appears responsible for the fraud, which centers around two junior bankers issuing “letters of undertaking” to get overseas branches of other lenders to extend credit to “a few select account holders.” Letters of Undertaking are used as a sort of guarantee on behalf of a company. The letters were then entered into...

February 15, 2018

New York announced the arrest and indictment of, as well as a civil asset forfeiture action against, Arkady Goldin, 39, of Brooklyn, and Value Pharmacy, Inc. ("Value"), for allegedly defrauding the New York State Medicaid program out of millions of dollars. Goldin, an owner of Value, is charged with Grand Larceny in the First Degree and other crimes for having allegedly paid kickbacks to a hospital employee for the referral...

Whistleblower News From the Inside -- February 12, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down – Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country’s top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision. Ms. Brand’s profile had risen in part because she is...

Fraudster of the Week -- Former Football Player Monty Grow

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team On Monday, a federal jury in Miami unanimously convicted Monty Grow of running a compound pharmaceutical drug conspiracy that bilked $20 million from TRICARE, a healthcare program for military members and their families. Grow was a star linebacker at the University of Florida in the early 1990s and spent two seasons as a cornerback in the NFL. Prosecutors accused Grow of creating a network...

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- February 8, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team South Carolina man found liable of $51M of healthcare fraud — Cal Dent and two co-conspirators paid kickbacks to doctors across the country to get them to order medically unnecessary blood tests from Health Diagnostics Laboratory. Physicians were paid a “process and handling fee” of $17 per referral to the lab. USAO South Carolina Kentucky ear, nose, and throat doctor settles FCA suit for $2.8M...

South Carolina Resident Found Liable for $51 Million in Health Care Fraud

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The United States Attorney’s Office in South Carolina announced that a federal jury returned a unanimous verdict against Floyd Calhoun “Cal” Dent and two co-conspirators, Robert Bradford Johnson and LaTonya Mallory, for defrauding Medicare and Tricare. The government alleged that Mr. Dent and his co-conspirators paid kickbacks to physicians so they would order medically unnecessary blood tests in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and...

Top-10 Whistleblower Successes for 2017

Here is our look-back at the top-10 whistleblower successes for 2017 based on the amount of the whistleblower award recovered or, if not known, the amount the government recovered prompted by the whistleblower's efforts in coming forward.  Click here for a chronological listing of all whistleblower recoveries for 2017. Click for our new 2018 Top 10 List Mylan -- Pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis US will receive a whistleblower award of roughly $39 million from...

Top-10 False Claims Act Kickback Recoveries for 2017

Here is our look-back at the Top-10 Department of Justice False Claims Act recoveries in 2017 for violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and/or the Stark Law.  Click here for a full chronological listing of all the DOJ False Claims Act recoveries in 2017. Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC – The Ireland-based drug maker and certain subsidiaries agreed to pay $350 million to settle charges that Shire and the company it acquired in 2011, Advanced BioHealing, violated the False Claims Act...