In Their Own Words -- Grassley
Posted 08/18/17
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SEC Uncovers Wide-Reaching Insider Trading Scheme
Posted 08/18/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The SEC announced insider trading charges against seven individuals who generated millions in profits by trading on confidential information about dozens of impending mergers and acquisitions. Data analysis allowed the SEC’s enforcement staff to uncover the illicit trading despite the traders’ alleged use of shell companies, code words, and an encrypted, self-destructing...
Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 18, 2017
Posted 08/18/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Poland Spring Allegedly Committing “Colossal Fraud” -- A lawsuit claims that Poland Spring Water is deceiving consumers with evergreen labels that say their bottle contains "100 percent natural spring water" that hails from Maine. The class-action lawsuit claims that parent company Nestle Waters North America is bottling common groundwater that doesn't meet the federal...
Rehab Clinics Allegedly Paying Kickbacks to “Body Brokers”
Posted 08/17/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
With the rise of the nation’s opioid crises, more opportunities for corruption and fraud have developed. An industry of patient brokering or “body brokering” has been born. Body brokers are paid kickbacks by rehab clinics in exchange for their recruiting of patients. Patients with good insurance are the most appealing recruits.
Kickbacks are also being paid between...
Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 17, 2017
Posted 08/17/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Navy Commander pleads guilty to conspiring to defraud Navy — CDR Bobby Pitts has admitted that he conspired to protect Leonard Glenn Francis (“Fat Leonard”). In 2015, Francis pleaded guilty to a decade-long fraud scheme that involved bribing officials with cash, prostitutes, luxury travel, Cuban cigars, Kobe beef, and Spanish suckling pigs. Pitts admitted to leaking...
Trump Says “Alt-Left” Shares Blame for Charlottesville
Posted 08/16/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
In a move that garnered praise from former KKK leader David Duke, Trump has once again blamed “both sides” for last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville. The about-face follows Trump’s long-awaited, if hollow, condemnation of neo-Nazi groups on Monday.
Ignoring the advice of his advisors and politicians from both sides of the aisle, Trump defended his initial...
In Their Own Words -- Coates
Posted 08/16/17
“It’s lamentable, but it’s predictable. And no one should be surprised.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Trump’s response to the events in Charlottesville. Read more hereWhistleblower News From The Inside -- August 16, 2017
Posted 08/16/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Whistleblower to Receive $1.59 million in Shipyard Overbilling Case — “The U.S. Department of Justice reports that Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. has agreed to a $9.2 million settlement of allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly overbilling the government for labor on U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships at its shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi.”
Deregulation Brings New Threats to Our Food Supply
Posted 08/15/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
According to a just-released post on the Government Accountability Project's (GAP) Food Integrity Campaign Blog, the Trump Administration's focus on deregulation may have particularly dire consequences on the safety of our food supply. There are two pieces of legislation in particular to which we should pay particular heed.
First, is the Regulation Accountability Act which...
In Their Own Words -- Edwards
Posted 08/15/17