In Their Own Words - Deltour
Posted 12/16/14
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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 - December 16, 2014
Posted 12/16/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
SUNY Research Foundation settles whistleblower claims for $3.75M -- The whistleblower had filed a False Claims Act case claiming the Foundation directed its employees to doctor audits to hide the number of ineligible people receiving Medicaid benefits. Syracuse.com
Eyak Technology and Eyak Services settles False Claim Act claims for $2.5M -- The settlement resolves allegations...
Whistleblower News from the Inside - December 12, 2014
Posted 12/12/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Virginia joins Guardrail case -- Virginia joined a whistleblower lawsuit against Trinity Industries Inc. over an allegedly defective guardrail system, becoming the first state to say it will seek to claw back money spent on the company’s roadside safety hardware. Bloomberg
Foreign whistleblowers gaining traction – Lawyers say they are coming across a proliferation of foreign...
DOJ Catch Of The Week -- OtisMed Corp.
Posted 12/12/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to medical products manufacturer OtisMed Corp. On Monday, the company and its former CEO Charlie Chi admitted to intentionally distributing knee replacement surgery cutting guides (called the OtisKnee) after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had rejected their application for marketing clearance. OtisMed agreed to...
Unfavorable Ruling for Dodd-Frank Whistleblowers: Moving Back Toward Asadi
Posted 12/11/14
By Marlene Koury
There is a split among the federal courts as to whether an employee is covered under the anti-retaliation provisions of Dodd-Frank when the employee only reports the conduct internally rather than to the SEC.
Last summer, the Fifth Circuit in Asadi v. GE Energy ruled the whistleblower retaliation protections of the Dodd-Frank Act apply only to those who actually provide information to the...
Whistleblower Spotlight -- UNC Whistleblower Mary Willingham
Posted 12/11/14
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By Gordon Schnell
This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" features Mary Willingham, the former academic adviser at the University of North Carolina who went public on what she sees as the university's major failings in educating its big money athletes. In a talk she gave last week at the Durham Sports Club (as reported in WRAL.com),...
First Circuit Weighs In On Scope Of False Claims Act "First-To-File" Bar
Posted 12/11/14
By Gordon Schnell
Under the so-called "first-to-file" rule, a whistleblower is precluded from bringing a False Claims Act case if one based on the same underlying facts is already pending. This pressure to be first to the courthouse forces whistleblowers to make a tradeoff between the speed and quality of their False Claims Act filing. In United States ex rel. Sun v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., the First Circuit...
Whistleblower News from the Inside - December 10, 2014
Posted 12/10/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The only one jailed for CIA torture was the whistleblower who tried to expose it -- Former CIA officer John Kiriakou is currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for his efforts to expose the existence of the CIA's torture program. Huffington Post
Japanese protest new anti-whistleblower secrecy law -- Demonstrators flooded Tokyo’s streets over a new secrecy law limiting...
In Their Own Words - Hiyama
Posted 12/10/14
-- "THIS LAW WILL RESTRICT THE PEOPLES' RIGHT TO KNOW. IT'S FULL OF AMBIGUITY AND WILL TAKE US BACK TO THE 'PUBLIC PEACE AND ORDER' CONTROLS OF WORLD WAR II."
From Tomoki Hiyama, one of approximately 800 people who gathered in front of the Japanese Parliament, protesting Japan’s new anti-whistleblower secrecy law which will limit disclosure of government misconduct by imposing on anyone leaking state secrets (and...In Their Own Words - Ross
Posted 12/9/14