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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.

				

			

			
						
					
			

	
		
		

			

				
				
SEC Announces Record $30M Whistleblower Award

				
Posted  09/23/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced an expected whistleblower award of more than $30 million.  It will be the largest award to date under the SEC whistleblower program established in 2012 under the Dodd-Frank Act.  It surpasses the $14 million award the SEC made to great fanfare roughly a year ago.  The new award will also be the fourth award to a...				 
				 					 

						
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DOJ Catch of the Week -- A Plus Home Health Care

				
Posted  09/19/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to Fort Lauderdale based A Plus Home Health Care Inc.  On Wednesday, the home health care company -- and its owners, Tracy Nemerofsky and her father, Stephen Nemerofsky -- agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle charges A Plus paid spouses of referring physicians for sham marketing positions to induce patient referrals. ...				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 19, 2014

				
Posted  09/19/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

GlaxoSmithKline fined $490M by China for bribery -- The record penalty comes from a Chinese court verdict delivered after a one-day trial finding the pharmaceutical giant guilty of paying bribes to doctors and hospitals to promote GSK products.  BBC

Three patient recruiters sentenced for roles in kickback scheme -- Patient recruiters for Trust Care Health Services in Florida...				 
				 				
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TAF Whistleblower of the Year -- Halifax Whistleblower Elin Baklid-Kunz

				
Posted  09/18/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

The whistleblower advocacy and education group Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF) just had their fourteenth annual conference in Washington. And in what has become a highlight of the three-day event, the organization made its annual Whistleblower of the Year award. This year's winner is Elin Baklid-Kunz. She is the long-time employee of Halifax Health Medical Center who exposed the...				 
				 					 

						
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The Growing Problem of Drug Abuse by Seniors

				
Posted  09/18/14
								

				 
								 				By Jason Enzler

Drug abuse and misuse by the older generation is on the rise, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. And the forecast predicts things may get worse.

The problem appears to be two-fold: addiction and misuse. On the addiction side, experts are concerned that seniors are receiving powerful opiates and anti-anxiety medications without adequate monitoring to identify when patients...				 
				 					 

						
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Holder Calls for Larger Whistleblower Awards

				
Posted  09/18/14
								

				 
								 				By Marlene Koury

Attorney General Eric Holder wants to raise the award limits for Wall Street whistleblowers, citing the need to provide greater incentives to blow the whistle. In a speech he gave yesterday at New York University, Holder said whistleblowers provide critical information to investigators in prosecuting cases, but the incentives provided to certain whistleblowers are simply insufficient.

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Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 16, 2014

				
Posted  09/16/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Episcopal Ministries to the Aging settles Medicare fraud charges --  The nonprofit Maryland corporation agreed to pay $1.3 million to resolve allegations that it caused the submission of false claims for unnecessary health care services.  DOJ

AgFeed settles accounting fraud case – The Chinese animal-feed and hog-production company has agreed to pay $18 million to settle SEC...				 
				 				
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Whistleblower Spotlight -- Saudi Arabia's Twitter Whistleblower @mujtahidd

				
Posted  09/16/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" shines on the unidentified individual who goes by the Twitter handle @mujtahidd. With more than 1.5 million followers, he appears to be on a one-man crusade to expose corruption in and bring transparency to this historically tight-lipped desert kingdom of 28 million people. Choosing a moniker which in Arabic translates into "an authoritative...				 
				 					 

						
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DOJ Catch of the Week -- Reliance Medical Systems

				
Posted  09/12/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to spinal implant company Reliance Medical Systems. On Monday, the government announced its filing of two False Claims Act lawsuits against the company, two of its distributorships -- Apex Medical Technologies and Kronos Spinal Technologies -- and Michigan neurosurgeon Dr. Aria Sabit.  The complaints allege Apex and...				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 12, 2014

				
Posted  09/12/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Bipartisan support for strengthening whistleblower protections -- "To say it was heartwarming would be a stretch, but it was good to see the bipartisan support this week on behalf of federal whistleblowers from a congressional panel" with many seeming "pretty disgusted with the way Uncle Sam can treat federal employees who report waste, fraud and abuse."  Washington...				 
				 				
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