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Trump Asks Why “Beleaguered” Sessions Isn’t Investigating Clinton

Posted 07/24/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team President Trump began the week with new comments regarding Attorney General Jeff Session. In an interview with the New York Times last week the President said that he never would have chosen Sessions for Attorney General if he had known that Sessions would recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. This morning, the President tweeted out...

In Their Own Words -- Levin

Posted 07/24/17

-- “Health care providers who cheat the system must be held accountable.”

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Joel Levin commenting on the creation of a new unit within the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago aimed at specifically tackling healthcare fraud.

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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- July 24, 2017

Posted 07/24/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Wells Fargo Ordered to Rehire Whistleblower and Pay $577,500 in Back Wages -- A federal agency has ordered Wells Fargo to give a whistleblower her job back, along with $577,500 in back pay and damages. The whistleblower was working as a branch manager in Pomona, California, when she was fired for reporting misconduct related to the bank's fake account scandal, according to...

In Their Own Words -- Trump

Posted 07/21/17

-- “You’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you’re 70, you get a nice plan. Here’s something where you walk up and say, ‘I want my insurance.’”

Trump, completely misrepresenting how health insurance works in a New York Times interview. Click here for more.

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Fraudsters of The Week -- Fred Witmer and Gary Jury, Indiana Executives Convicted of Biofuel Fraud

Posted 07/21/17

This week, a judge sentenced two biodiesel executives to several years in prison for defrauding the federal government’s renewable fuel support and tax credit programs. Fred Witmer and Gary Jury are the co-owners of Indiana-based Triton Energy LLC, a company that purported to produce and sell biofuel for use in transportation. Instead, the two men used Triton to orchestrate a scheme to fraudulently produce...

Tagged in: Catch of the Week, Environmental Fraud, Tax Credit and Deduction Fraud,

DOJ Catch of The Week -- Foundations Health Solutions

Posted 07/21/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Foundations Health Solutions Inc., Olympia Therapy Inc. and Tridia Hospice Care Inc. On Monday, these Ohio-based companies, comprising one of the largest nursing home operations in the state, and their executives Brian Colleran and Daniel Parker, agreed to pay roughly $19.5 million to resolve allegations that they...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Catch of the Week, FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Lack of Medical Necessity, Whistleblower Rewards,

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- July 21, 2017

Posted 07/21/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Trump Made Several Misleading Claims in Times Interview -- In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, President Trump made a number of misleading and false claims, including statements on health insurance, the biography of his deputy attorney general and French history. NYT Former Credit Suisse Banker Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers to Defraud the...

JPMorgan Whistleblowers Set to Reap Record $61 Million Bounty

Posted 07/21/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Two whistleblowers are apparently set to share a record $61 million award from the SEC for helping make the case that JPMorgan Chase & Co. failed to disclose to wealthy clients that it was steering them into investments that would be most profitable for the bank. The SEC issued letters notifying six whistleblower applicants of the preliminary decision. The letters said that...

Tagged in: Anonymity, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Whistleblower Rewards,

Department of Interior Scientist Demoted for Whistleblowing on Climate Change

Posted 07/20/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Joel Clement, a scientist and former director of the Interior Department’s Office of Policy Analysis, was recently reassigned to an Interior Department accounting office. Clement believes he was punished for speaking about the dangers climate change poses to Alaskan Native Communities. In a Washington Post op-ed, Clement accused the administration of choosing “silence over...

In Their Own Words -- Clement

Posted 07/20/17

-- “Born and raised in Maine, I was taught to work hard and speak truth to power.”

Department of Interior Whistleblower Joel Clement.

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