Whistleblower News From The Inside -- July 17, 2015
Posted 07/17/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
SEC makes $3m whistleblower award --The SEC today announced a whistleblower award of more than $3 million – the third highest award to date -- to a company insider whose information helped the SEC crack a complex fraud. SEC
Pfizer announces it will shutter India plant, echoing same news from Sandoz -- Pfizer announces it will close a plant in India later this year less...
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Fraud in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program is getting the attention of not only the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) but also watchdogs on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, July 14, 2015, the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing to examine 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
“Indispensable” whistleblower to get $33.5 m of Lidoderm settlement – Federal Judge rules former Endo Health Solutions sales rep who filed a lawsuit over off-label marketing of pain treatment Lidoderm will get $33.5 million from the government’s $140 million settlement. 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Whistleblower’s phone call halts child-endangerment on set of Divergent movie sequel. After a whistleblower’s frantic calls, union representatives stepped in to halt the shooting of chaotic scenes with child actors, some as young as four, scrambling through a gauntlet of 100+ untrained adult extras swinging metal clubs, axes and machetes. 
Citizenfour filmmaker suing over alleged harassment -- Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. government to find out why she has been searched, questioned and subject to enhanced security screenings over the course of six years at U.S. and overseas airports. 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Last Friday, the Department of Justice secured a 45-year prison sentence against the now infamous Detroit-area doctor, Farid Fata. He was also ordered to forfeit $17.6 million of illegal reimbursements he obtained from Medicare and private insurance companies. This stems from his guilty plea in September 2014 to violating the False Claims Act with a health care fraud scheme...