2015 Whistleblower of the Year Candidate – The VA Whistleblowers
Posted 12/21/15
By Jason Enzler
This "Whistleblower Spotlight" features the Veterans Affairs whistleblowers, one of our candidates for 2015 Whistleblower of the Year. They are a (continually growing) group of healthcare providers, administrative employees, and other insiders at the VA Department who have come forward to identify the horrendous treatment of our veterans at the hospitals that are supposed to take care of them. ...
By Ari Yampolsky
This “Whistleblower Spotlight” features another of our Whistleblower of the Year candidates, the Russian doping whistleblower pair of Yuliya and Vitaly Stepanov. Together, they took a bold stand against what they saw as major corruption in the recently revitalized Russian sports machine. In doing so, they exposed one of the biggest international doping scandals in sports history. But...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Drug C.E.O. Martin Shkreli arrested on fraud charges -- Famous for acquiring a decades-old drug used to treat an infection that can be devastating for babies and people with AIDS and, overnight, raising the price to $750 a pill from $13.50, his criminal charges brought against him actually relate to something else entirely — his time as a hedge fund manager and when he ran his...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Qualitest Pharmaceuticals. On Wednesday, the company's corporate shell, Vintage Pharmaceuticals, its parent Endo Pharmaceuticals, and seven of their affiliates agreed to pay $39 million to settle charges they violated the False Claims Act by selling understrength chewable fluoride tablets. See 
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By Gordon Schnell
This "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Perdue chicken farmer Craig Watts, one of our candidates for 2015 Whistleblower of the Year. He is one of the 30,000 contract farmers in the U.S. who work with the handful of Big-Ag poultry producers, like Perdue Farms, that control what goes into the vast majority of chickens we eat. They also dictate how these chickens are treated. And after more...
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Qualitest Pharmaceuticals pays $39 million to federal government and 47 states to resolve 2013 whistleblower lawsuit over half-strength fluoride supplements — “A generic drug maker owned by Endo International Plc has reached a $39 million settlement with the U.S. government and 47 states stemming from the unlawful labeling of multivitamins that contained fluoride.”