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Fifth Circuit Applies “Demanding” Escobar Materiality Standard

Posted 04/5/17

By Rosie Dawn Griffin The Supreme Court’s holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar continues to be hashed out in the lower courts. Last month, the Fifth Circuit applied Escobar’s materiality standard in U.S. ex rel Abbott et al. v. BP Exploration and Production, Inc. et al., a whistleblower case former BP contractor Kenneth Abbott brought under the False Claims Act (FCA) in...

Tagged in: Court Decision, FCA Federal, FCA Materiality,

In Their Own Words -- Bi

Posted 04/4/17

-- "I feel vindicated, I really do. This is why I was sacked in the first place. I raised a concern that this video was not appropriate for 11-year-olds, it had an 18-rating caution, they sacked me and they thought I was accusing the school of being anti-Muslim."

Suriyah Bi, a teaching assistant turned whistleblower, commenting on the court battle over her dismissal from a Birmingham school. Ms. Bi was fired for...

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Wells Fargo Whistleblower Wins $5.4 Million and His Job Back

Posted 04/4/17

A federal regulator on Monday ordered Wells Fargo to pay $5.4 million to a former manager who said he was fired in 2010 after reporting to his supervisors and to a bank ethics hotline what he suspected was fraudulent behavior. The bank must also rehire him, the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. OSHA concluded that the manager was "abruptly" forced to leave a Los Angeles...

Tagged in: Financial Institution Fraud, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- April 4, 2017

Posted 04/4/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team More Trouble at Fox News: Ailes Faces New Sexual Claims and O’Reilly Loses Two Advertisers -- The sexual harassment scandal that engulfed Fox News last year and led to the ouster of its chairman, Roger Ailes, continued to batter the network on Monday, as a new lawsuit described unwanted sexual advances by Mr. Ailes and two major advertisers pulled their spots from the show of...

The Government’s Struggle to Hold Opioid Manufacturers Accountable

Posted 04/3/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team In 2011 the DEA was focused on fighting the growing opioid epidemic and targeted Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest manufacturers of oxycodone. The government alleged that Mallinckrodt had failed to properly report suspicious orders of painkillers that eventually made their way to the black market in Florida. The government contended that Mallinckrodt’s actions...

Tagged in: Pharma Fraud,

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- April 3, 2017

Posted 04/3/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Former Penn State Assistant Gets $1.7 Million in Whistleblower Fees -- Penn State whistleblower Mike McQueary’s lawyers were granted $1.7 million for their work on McQueary’s whistleblower case regarding his treatment by the university after the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case. The judge wrote that it would not be reasonable to expect whistleblowers to put their jobs...

Home Health Agency Owner Pleads Guilty to Conspiring in $17 Million Medicaid Fraud Scheme

Posted 03/31/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The owner and operator of five Houston-area home health agencies pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare and the State of Texas’s Medicaid-funded Home and Community-Based Service and Primary Home Care programs of more than $17 million. He also pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money. These health care programs provided qualified individuals with in-home...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA State, Home Health and Hospice, Medicaid,

In Their Own Words -- Trump

Posted 03/31/17

-- “If I don’t win, and even if I do win, we want to open— my kids will open it up again, because it was a terrific school. It was great. It was good.”

President Trump, commenting on his intention to revive Trump University, regardless of the outcome of the multiple fraud lawsuits against it. The cases settled in November and the settlement was approved March 31, 2017. Click here for more.

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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- March 31, 2017

Posted 03/31/17

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Trump University $25 million settlement approved -- Thousands of former Trump University students will get most of their money back after a court approved the $25 million settlement. Nearly 4,000 former students submitted claims and those who are eligible could get back about 90% of their money. The settlement was agreed to last November, just 10 days after Donald Trump won...

In Their Own Words -- Australian Federal Police

Posted 03/30/17

-- "In many cases, foreign bribery offences are only detected when reported by whistleblowers, without which they would most likely not be detected at all."

The Australian Federal Police, in a submission to an Australian parliamentary joint committee inquiry on whistleblower protections and rewards. Read more here.

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Fifth Circuit Applies “Demanding” Escobar Materiality Standard

In Their Own Words -- Bi

-- "I feel vindicated, I really do. This is why I was sacked in the first place. I raised a concern that this video was not appropriate for 11-year-olds, it had an 18-rating caution, they sacked me and they thought I was accusing the school of being anti-Muslim."

Wells Fargo Whistleblower Wins $5.4 Million and His Job Back

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- April 4, 2017

The Government’s Struggle to Hold Opioid Manufacturers Accountable

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- April 3, 2017

Home Health Agency Owner Pleads Guilty to Conspiring in $17 Million Medicaid Fraud Scheme

In Their Own Words -- Trump

-- “If I don’t win, and even if I do win, we want to open— my kids will open it up again, because it was a terrific school. It was great. It was good.”

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- March 31, 2017

In Their Own Words -- Australian Federal Police

-- "In many cases, foreign bribery offences are only detected when reported by whistleblowers, without which they would most likely not be detected at all."

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Fifth Circuit Applies “Demanding” Escobar Materiality Standard

In Their Own Words -- Bi

-- "I feel vindicated, I really do. This is why I was sacked in the first place. I raised a concern that this video was not appropriate for 11-year-olds, it had an 18-rating caution, they sacked me and they thought I was accusing the school of being anti-Muslim."

Wells Fargo Whistleblower Wins $5.4 Million and His Job Back

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- April 4, 2017

The Government’s Struggle to Hold Opioid Manufacturers Accountable

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- April 3, 2017

Home Health Agency Owner Pleads Guilty to Conspiring in $17 Million Medicaid Fraud Scheme

In Their Own Words -- Trump

-- “If I don’t win, and even if I do win, we want to open— my kids will open it up again, because it was a terrific school. It was great. It was good.”

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- March 31, 2017

In Their Own Words -- Australian Federal Police

-- "In many cases, foreign bribery offences are only detected when reported by whistleblowers, without which they would most likely not be detected at all."

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