Whistleblower Insider is written by the Constantine Cannon law firm team of experienced qui tam and whistleblower lawyers. It is updated regularly to provide the latest whistleblower and fraud news and developments.
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Harkening back to the days of the dot-com bubble, investors are rapidly jumping on the bitcoin bandwagon. The cryptocurrency has gained has gained incredible interest as the price has skyrocketed from under $1,000 to over $19,000. Adding fuel to the fire, bitcoin futures began trading on the CBOE Futures Exchange and the CME also plans to allow futures trading.
SEC Chairman...
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Two physician groups, Dallas-based EmCare Inc. and Pennsylvania-based Physician’s Alliance Ltd (PAL), agreed to settlements that resolve claims the groups received illegal kickbacks in exchange for referring patients to hospitals owned by Health Management Associates (HMA). The settlements, announced by the Justice Department yesterday, resolve two separate whistleblower...
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Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed — Coinbase is carrying out an insider trading investigation, fearing its own workers may have exploited its move into Bitcoin Cash, a spin-off of the original Bitcoin. BBC
Citation companies agree to $2.25M False Claims Act settlement — Citation Oil & Gas Corp. and its affiliates will pay $2.25 million to resolve...
Whistleblower Insider wants to hear from you on who should be honored as the 2017 Whistleblower of the Year. We are especially interested in those individuals who best encapsulate the qualities of the typical whistleblower -- courage, strength, integrity, selflessness and a deep concern for public health and safety. You can choose among the candidates listed below, or identify your own candidate. Please...
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Athletics and doping: how far we've come and how far we have to go – "There is general acknowledgement that doping continues, that its extent is greater than has been admitted and that the future of sport may well be at stake if the problem is not solved. It is, however, equally clear that there is no genuine commitment by many sport authorities, athletes, coaches and even...
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New Jersey doctor Robert Claude McGrath and his chiropractor son Robert Christopher McGrath were sentenced to prison for conspiring to defraud Medicare by using unqualified people to give physical therapy to Medicare recipients. The pair, sentenced to 30 and 12 months respectively, previously pleaded guilty to the charges. They also were ordered to pay restitution of...
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Whistleblowers: DEA Attorneys Went Easy on McKesson, the Country’s Largest Drug Distributor – In October, we joined forces with the Washington Post and reported a disturbing story of Washington at its worst - about an act of Congress that crippled the DEA's ability to fight the worst drug crisis in American history - the opioid addiction crisis. Now, a new front of that...
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The Chicago Tribune reports on the story of pharmaceutical sales representative turned whistleblower, Allison Zayas. Zayas worked for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca marketing and selling the antipsychotic drug Seroquel to doctors and nursing homes. In the winter of 2009, one of Zayas’ clients, a doctor, described to her how a patient died while taking a combination of...