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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.

				

			

			
						
					
			

	
		
		

			

				
				
Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 5, 2017

				
Posted  12/5/17
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Sex, money and retaliation? This is what a whistleblower says happened in Kentucky legislature - Read the details of the allegations in the whistleblower lawsuit filed yesterday by Daisy Olivo, communications director for the Kentucky House Republican leadership, against the Legislative Research Commission. Courier Journal

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In Their Own Words -- Cox

				
Posted  12/4/17
								

				 
								 				
-- “The United States Attorney’s Office, in coordination with our partners at Main Justice and HHS-OIG, have and will continue to aggressively pursue those that violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, regardless of the nature or form that the kickback takes. We must hold individuals and entities responsible for improperly furthering their financial interests at the expense of the federal health care programs.”

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Texas Hospital to Pay $7.5 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations

				
Posted  12/4/17
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

The Department of Justice announced Friday that Pine Creek Medical Center LLC, a physician-owned hospital based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act. The claims centered on allegations that Pine Creek paid physicians kickbacks through marketing services in exchange for surgical referrals. The government alleged...				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 4, 2017

				
Posted  12/4/17
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Sarasota Physician Agrees To Pay $1.95 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Regarding Unnecessary Ultrasounds –  Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Dr. Arthur S. Portnow, the owner and operator of Arthur S. Portnow, P.A., d/b/a Apple Medical and Cardiovascular Group, d/b/a Apple Medical Group (collectively, Dr. Portnow) has agreed to...				 
				 				
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SEC Awards More Than $16 Million to Two Whistleblowers

				
Posted  12/1/17
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

The SEC announced awards of more than $8 million each to two whistleblowers whose critical information and continuing assistance helped the agency bring the successful underlying enforcement action.

With this case, SEC enforcement actions involving whistleblower awards have now resulted in more than $1 billion in financial remedies ordered against wrongdoers.

The first...				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- November 1, 2017

				
Posted  12/1/17
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Russian Cyber-Criminal Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Role in $50 Million in Online Identity Theft – According to Roman Valeryevich Seleznev’s admissions in his plea agreement, Carder.su was an Internet-based, international criminal enterprise whose members trafficked in compromised credit card account data and counterfeit identifications and committed identity theft,...				 
				 				
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Question of the Week: Should the journalist who revealed the Laquan McDonald police shooting be forced to reveal his sources?

				
Posted  11/30/17
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Jamie Kalven is an independent journalist and activist who covers issues of race, poverty, police practices, and government corruption in his hometown of Chicago. In late 2014, he received a tip that the Chicago police were lying about the circumstances in the death of an African-American teenager, Laquan McDonald, on October 20, 2014. The police had reported that Mr. McDonald...				 
				 					 

						
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A Whistleblower Caught Between Two Worlds

				
Posted  11/30/17
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Forbes reports on the story of whistleblower Brian Aryai who brought a qui tam case in 2009 alleging a scheme of overpayments to labor union foremen by construction companies. The case was recently unsealed in September 2017 and has exposed the troubles Aryai faced when he was seemingly caught in a turf battle between two powerful former United States Attorneys. The two former...				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words -- Arguedas

				
Posted  11/30/17
								

				 
								 				
-- “Jeff had a long career as a lawyer doing good work, he made a terrible mistake, for which he is extremely sorry, and is now working to make amends.”

Cristina Arguedas, the attorney for former Akin Gump partner Jeffrey Wertkin commenting on her client’s guilty plea in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday.				 
				 					 

						
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