Government Employees are Now Clearly Eligible for SEC Whistleblower Awards
Posted 08/3/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
A $2.5M award announced last week included a footnote delineating who, among government employees, is eligible for SEC whistleblower awards. Employees of local, state, and federal agencies, other than regulatory, or law enforcement agencies, are eligible for awards. Which agency this whistleblower worked for was not revealed. Notable excluded regulatory agencies include the SEC...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
US intervenes in FCA suit against City of Los Angeles —The suit alleges that the city fraudulently obtained millions in HUD grants by certifying that the money would be spent on housing for persons with disabilities, but instead the city used the money to create inaccessible housing which deprived people with disabilities an equal opportunity in finding affordable housing....
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
In the wake of their failed seven-year effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Congressional Republicans are now engaged in a bipartisan effort to save the law that has helped insure millions of Americans, including their own constituents. The retention of cost-sharing reduction payments—which reimburse insurers for cutting deductibles and other out-of-pocket...
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State Department contractor cops to $5.3m Iraq kickback scam – Jose Rivera, a former employee of major defense contracting firm DynCorp International, has pled guilty to allegations that he helped steer the lease for an Iraqi police training facility toward a property owned by the employer of his co-conspirator in exchange for kickback payments. 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
As 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Jury begins deliberations in federal fraud trial against 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli – A jury began deliberations Monday at the federal securities fraud trial of Martin Shkreli, the former biotech CEO best known for hiking up the price of a life-saving drug and for trolling his critics on social media. 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Over the weekend the 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
How Whistleblowers are Retaliated Against – The July 25 Health & Science article “The psychology of whistleblowers and why only some are willing to go there” examined what it takes to be a whistleblower. I have had that experience as a federal employee in an agency that “encourages” dissenting opinions. Although supposedly protected by law against retaliation,...