Whistleblower News From The Inside -- October 24, 2017
Posted 10/24/17
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New investigative website fights rich and powerful -- "Corporate insider-turned-whistleblower Wendell Potter starts up an investigative website to expose corruption and show the public how to fight back." HuffPost
Movie on Uber sexual harassment whistleblower in the works -- "Susan Fowler, the woman who exposed Uber's rampant sexual harassment issues with her viral blog...
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Texas nursing home company settles FCA suit for $5M - Health Services Management Inc., Has resolved allegations that it billed Medicare and Medicaid for services that were never provided. The case was brought to light by a whistleblower, who also reported many instances of abuse and neglect. The whistleblower will receive a $1M award. 
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office announced “Express Hospitality Group” has agreed to pay $13 million to settle claims initially brought by a whistleblower under New York State’s False Claims Act. Schneiderman also announced the conviction of Yankee Clipper Food Services on felony charges for avoiding New York taxes between 2011 and 2015.
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On Tuesday, 38-year-old Joseph Baumiller of Dallas, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud TRICARE, the health care program serving military members and their families. Baumiller, the former president of Trilogy Pharmacy, admitted to conspiring with several marketers, physicians, and other pharmacists to orchestrate a scheme involving the payment of kickbacks...
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Verizon Paying $17 Million In FCC Fraud Case, But Could Have Been Docked Much More -- The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is under fire for letting Verizon get off easy by settling a high-profile over-billing investigation. FCC chairman and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai agreed to close the case with the carrier repaying $17 million to the government’s E-rate program...
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The new film “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House” stars Liam Neeson as Mark Felt, one of the most famous whistleblowers in U.S. history. Felt revealed in a 2005 Vanity Fair interview that he was the long-celebrated anonymous whistleblower known as Deep Throat. Many have credited Felt’s whistleblowing as a key to Nixon’s downfall.
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Texas man pleads guilty to $50M in TRICARE fraud—Andrew Baumiller has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud TRICARE. Baumiller is the first of several accused individuals to plead guilty for a scheme involving kickbacks paid to physicians in exchange for those physicians’ referrals to a group of pharmacies. The kickbacks were disguised as grants for participating in a...
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