SEC Report Shows a Significant Number of Tips Coming From UK Whistleblowers
Posted 11/10/17
The 2016 Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program shows a growing number of international whistleblowers are taking advantage of the SEC's award program. In 2016 alone, the Commission received submissions from individuals in 67 foreign countries. After the United States, the SEC received the highest number of whistleblower tips from the UK and Canada. OWB Annual Report 2016
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The Department of Justice today announced that on Nov. 9, the Madoff Victim Fund began its initial distribution of $772.5 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC fraud scheme. These funds will be sent to 24,631 victims across the globe. This distribution represents the first in a series of payments that...
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New Orleans Woman Convicted for Role in $3.2 Million Medicare Kickback Scheme -- A federal jury found a New Orleans woman guilty today for her role in an approximately $3.2 million Medicare fraud and kickback scheme. According to evidence presented at trial, from 2004 to 2009, Parkman and others engaged in a scheme to provide medically unnecessary durable medical equipment,...
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Transportation company settles FCA suit for $4.4M—Mercer Transportation Company has settled allegations that it bribed officials at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Georgia in exchange for contract awards that the company would not have otherwise received. The case was brought by a whistleblower, who will receive an $814K award. 
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The global community is reeling from a weekend full of 
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Charges were unsealed yesterday against three former Rolls-Royce employees and two other individual for their alleged participation in a scheme to bribe foreign officials to benefit a U.S.-based Rolls-Royce subsidiary, including to win work on a new gas pipeline.
According to the unsealed indictment, the three Rolls-Royce employees along with an employee at a consulting firm...
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Major Investors Sue Outcome Health, Alleging Firm Committed Fraud to Secure $487.5M Investment — Investors in Outcome Health, including units of Goldman Sachs and Google, filed suit against the Chicago-based pharmaceutical advertising startup, alleging it committed fraud to secure nearly $500 million in funding.