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Whistleblower News From The Inside — September 8, 2016

Posted 09/8/16

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Diabetic medical equipment companies to pay more than $12M to resolve FCA charges – Two New Jersey diabetic medical equipment companies and the two brothers who own them will pay more than $12.2M to settle allegations they violated the False Claims Act by cold calling Medicare beneficiaries to coerce them into purchasing expensive durable medical equipment. Corporate Crime...

In Their Own Words -- Sophocles

Posted 09/7/16

-- “Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.”

Sophocles

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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- September 7, 2016

Posted 09/7/16

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team New York attorney general subpoenas EpiPen maker – The focus of the investigation appears to be determining whether Mylan Pharmaceuticals violated anti-trust laws. Los Angeles Times Russian mafia whistleblower inquest put on ice – The inquest of the death of Alexander Perepilichny, who preliminary reports suggest was been found dead with a rare poison from the gelsemium...

Army Helmet Recall and Investigation Puts Spotlight on Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

Posted 09/7/16

By Sarah Poppy Alexander To say safety standards are crucial to the Army is simply to state the obvious. Service members rely on their equipment to function as intended in any number of life and death situations. The Department of Defense thus depends on its contractors to live up to exacting standards to prevent any kind of lapse that may endanger servicepersons. Unfortunately, contractors and subcontractors...

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In Their Own Words — McKessy

Posted 09/6/16

-- “I wanted to let companies know these people have a role to play.”

Former SEC whistleblower chief Sean McKessy on his drive to tell corporations that whistle-blowers are not the enemy. Click here for more.

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Whistleblower News From The Inside — September 6, 2016

Posted 09/6/16

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Former SEC whistleblower chief to join Phillips & Cohen -- "Sean X. McKessy, the founding director of the whistle-blower program at the [SEC], is joining a law firm in Washington, where he will be an advocate for individuals coming forward with information about fraud or improprieties in their workplaces." NYT Why Hillary Clinton’s perceived corruption seems to echo...

In Their Own Words -- Meissner

Posted 09/2/16

-- "In our opinion, if they were being honest and forthright, they’d have supported my client when the matter was raised internally. And if they had supported my client, Monsanto would not have been able to use them as a shield, which they did in arguing that my client was wrong. "

Stuart Meissner of Meissner Associates, attorney for the SEC whistleblower who was recently awarded $22.4 million, on why the...

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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- September 2, 2016

Posted 09/2/16

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Monsanto Whistleblower Targets Deloitte – Attorneys for SEC whistleblower who was recently awarded $22.4 million have named Montsanto as the whistleblower’s employer. In doing so, the whistleblower hopes to put pressure on the company’s external auditor, Deloitte, for failing to put a stop to the fraud. Financial Times CFTC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed...

DOJ Catch Of The Week -- Coastal Spine And Pain

Posted 09/2/16

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Jacksonville-based Physicians Group Services, P.A., doing business as Coastal Spine and Pain. On Wednesday, the surgery and pain-management clinic agreed to pay $7.4 million to settle charges it violated the False Claims Act by performing medically unnecessary drug screening procedures. See DOJ Press...

Tagged in: Catch of the Week, FCA Federal, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicare,

In Their Own Words — Richmond

Posted 09/1/16

-- “New and expanded uses of data analytics to identify suspicious billing patterns. . . are providing law enforcement agencies with powerful investigative tools to combat fraud and abuse in federal health care programs.”

HHS OIG SAC Shimon Richmond, commenting on a $7.4M settlement between the federal government and a Florida physicians group accused of subjecting patients to medically unnecessary tests. Read...

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