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Whistleblower Insider is written by the Constantine Cannon law firm team of experienced qui tam and whistleblower lawyers. It is updated regularly to provide the latest whistleblower and fraud news and developments.

				

			

			
						
					
			

	
		
		

			

				
				
Whistleblower News From The Inside - February 11, 2015

				
Posted  02/11/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

 FDA cover-up of scientific fraud? – “For more than a decade, the FDA has shown a pattern of burying the details of misconduct.”  Slate

 Call for UK National Health Service “whistleblower guardians” -- This follows from Sir Robert Francis’ Freedom to Speak Up Review which surveyed thousands within the health service and found “too many were put off speaking up...				 
				 				
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Whistleblower News From The Inside - February 10, 2015

				
Posted  02/10/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Qualcomm to pay $975M antitrust fine to China -- It is the largest in China's corporate history, ending a 14-month government investigation into the company’s alleged anti-competitive practices.  Reuters

Freed CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou says "I would do it all again" to expose torture -- Watch/read the interview here.  Democracy Now

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In Their Own Words - Honl

				
Posted  02/10/15
								

				 
								 				
-- "If he wants to sue a minimum-wage whistleblower, he can have at it."

Ryan Honl, A Gulf War veteran and former employee at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who has been threatened with a lawsuit by the medical center’s chief of staff, David Houlihan, dubbed by some veterans as the “Candy Man” for his supposedly loosed distribution of painkillers.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Falciani

				
Posted  02/9/15
								

				 
								 				
-- “I’m not a white knight, but there is something beautiful and exhilarating about establishing the truth.”

Herve Falciani on his journey from computer expert to fugitive to the whistleblower who exposed HSBC’s efforts to help some of its wealthy clients evade hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.  Click here for more.				 
				 					 

						
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In Their Own Words - Frosh

				
Posted  02/6/15
								

				 
								 				
-- “THE FALSE CLAIMS ACT MULTIPLIES OUR RESOURCES TO FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD…WHAT THIS LAW DOES, IN EFFECT, IS INCENTIVIZE INTEGRITY.”

Maryland Attorney General  Brian E. Frosh commenting on the need for a False Claims Act in Maryland.				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower News From The Inside - February 6, 2015

				
Posted  02/6/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Maryland AG urges adoption of False Claims Act -- Calling it a powerful tool to prevent fraud and abuse in state and local government, Attorney General Brian E. Frosh unveiled his top priority for the 2015 legislative session and urged the General Assembly to adopt the Maryland False Claims Act.  Maryland Attorney General

Medtronic Inc. agrees to pay $2.8 M to resolve...				 
				 				
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DOJ Catch Of The Week -- Standard And Poor's Financial Services

				
Posted  02/6/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to Standard & Poor's Financial Services (S&P). On Tuesday, the ratings giant, along with its parent corporation McGraw Hill Financial Inc., agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle charges it schemed to defraud investors in structured financial products known as Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and...				 
				 					 

						
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2014 Whistleblower Of The Year Goes To… Mary Willingham!

				
Posted  02/5/15
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

The votes are in -- Mary Willingham is Whistleblower Insider’s 2014 Whistleblower of the Year!  Ms. Willingham is the former educator at the University of North Carolina who went public with her concerns about the university’s major failings in educating its big money athletes and has been on a continued quest to clean up college sports.  We recently shined the...				 
				 					 

						
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Fourth Circuit Joins Other Circuits In Narrow Read of Public Disclosure Bar

				
Posted  02/5/15
								

				 
								 				Under the False Claims Act, a whistleblower may be precluded from filing a qui tam lawsuit based on information that has already been publicly disclosed by another source.   This so-called "public disclosure bar" is designed to weed out "parasitic" actions from those brought by whistleblowers with true inside knowledge of fraud.  There has been some disagreement among the courts as to how "public" a disclosure must...				 
				 					 

						
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Feds Green-Light Institute’s New Patent Policy For Wi-Fi Standards, Finding It Potentially Procompetitive

				
Posted  02/5/15
										

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								 				The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it would not challenge recent revisions to the Patent Policy of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (“IEEE-SA”)—giving the green light to new Wi-Fi standards that computers, smartphones and tablets will follow in connecting to the Internet.

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