August 17, 2015

Following a special audit, the Indiana Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a maintenance product company and a former school maintenance director demanding repayment of nearly $1 million for their illegal bribery and kickbacks scheme that defrauded the Warsaw Community Schools. IN

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 10, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team SEC files amicus brief in support of whistleblower suit by former Bio-Rad GC -- In an amicus curiae brief backing plaintiff Sanford Wadler, the agency argues that employees who raise concerns of corporate misdeeds need not go directly to the authorities with their complaints to qualify for whistleblower protection.  Wadler, who had served as Bio-Rad's GC for over 20 years, sued the company in May, claiming he...

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 5, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team SEC set to adopt CEO pay ratio rule – The SEC is expected to adopt a final version of a proposed rule under Dodd-Frank that will require companies to provide investors with a ratio showing how the median pay of their workforce squares with their chief executive officers' compensation.  Reuters Allied Dental pays whistleblower $420,000 -- A New Jersey dental practice has agreed to...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 4, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Idaho anti-whistleblower Ag-Gag law declared unconstitutional -- According to the Court, “[p]rohibiting undercover investigators or whistleblowers from recording an agricultural facility’s operations inevitably suppresses a key type of speech because it limits the information that might later be published or broadcast.”  NYT Pediatric Services of America to pay $6.88M to settle whistleblower charges -- The whistleblowers, Yvette Odumosu and Sheila McCray, charged the company...

DOJ Catch Of The Week -- NuVasive Inc.

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to California-based medical device manufacturer NuVasive Inc.  Yesterday, the company agreed to pay $13.5 million to resolve charges it improperly promoted the company’s CoRoent System for spine surgeries for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.  The settlement also resolves allegations NuVasive paid illegal kickbacks to induce physicians to use the company’s...

Whistleblower News from the Inside -- July 27, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Owner of Detroit Home Health Care Companies Sentenced to 80 Months in Prison for Role in $12.6 Million Fraud Scheme - A Michigan resident, Mohammed Sadiq, was sentenced to 80 months in prison late yesterday for his leading role in a $12.6 million Medicare fraud and tax fraud scheme.  Sadiq, who owned and directed operations at two home health care companies in Detroit, admitted that,...

Congress Highlights Medicare Part D Plans’ Failure To Prevent Fraud

Fraud in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program is getting the attention of not only the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) but also watchdogs on Capitol Hill.  On Tuesday, July 14, 2015, the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing to examine two recent reports from HHS OIG examining improper spending in the Medicare Part D program....

Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 15, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Whistleblower’s phone call halts child-endangerment on set of Divergent movie sequel.  After a whistleblower’s frantic calls, union representatives stepped in to halt the shooting of chaotic scenes with child actors, some as young as four, scrambling through a gauntlet of 100+ untrained adult extras swinging metal clubs, axes and machetes.  Deadline. Nine defendants charged in scam involving complex, international stock manipulation and money laundering. ...

DOJ Enforcement Spotlight -- Cancer Doctor Farid Fata

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Last Friday, the Department of Justice secured a 45-year prison sentence against the now infamous Detroit-area doctor, Farid Fata.  He was also ordered to forfeit $17.6 million of illegal reimbursements he obtained from Medicare and private insurance companies.  This stems from his guilty plea in September 2014 to violating the False Claims Act with a health care fraud scheme that included administering medically unnecessary...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 13, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Prosecutors go after fraud at Veterans Affairs – One case involves a VA employee taking more than $1.2 million in kickbacks; another involves an employee who stole gravestones from a cemetery to floor his garage.  Washington Post Time to modernize the nursing home system – Officials intend to make sweeping changes to the rules that nursing homes must follow in order to receive payments...