Whistleblower News From The Inside -- June 8, 2017
Posted 06/8/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Virginia hospitalist group settles FCA suit for $4.2M—Fredericksburg Hospitalist Group has settled allegations that it and its member doctors intentionally upcoded evaluation and management (E&M) codes to the highest level allowable under Medicare billing rules, resulting in fraudulently increased reimbursements. E&M codes are a subset of medical procedure code that categorize...
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President Trump took to twitter this morning to announce that he will nominate Christopher Wray to serve as the new FBI director. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow,” Trump tweeted. The announcement comes just one day before former FBI Director James Comey is set to testify...
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Senate Passes VA Reform Bill -- The legislation, passed by a bipartisan voice vote, would make it easier to fire VA employees and establish a “VA accountability office” to receive anonymous whistleblower disclosures. 
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In an open 
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What we know about Reality Winner -- The 25-year-old federal contractor "is accused of leaking classified information regarding a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack to an online news outlet." 
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Early Monday morning President Trump seemingly 
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Former NSA Executive: Agency Used “Blanket” Surveillance During 2002 Olympics -- Former National Security Agency senior executive and whistleblower Thomas Drake revealed himself this week as the source for a lawsuit alleging the NSA conducted “blanket, indiscriminate surveillance” of Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. In a declaration filed in...
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State Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks has been indicted on nine federal fraud and bribery counts in an action that supersedes the criminal charges brought against him in April. Oaks, 70, is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to answer the charges within the next week or two.
The indictments handed up Wednesday by a federal grand jury follow a criminal complaint...