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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.

				

			

			
						
					
			

	
		
		

			

				
				
The Final Phoenix VA Report Is Out – No Deaths Linked To Delays?

				
Posted  08/28/14
								

				 
								 				By Marlene Koury

The VA Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") released its final report this week on the alleged patient deaths, wait times and scheduling issues at the Phoenix VA.  Despite the allegations of several whistleblowers, the investigators found that there was no conclusive evidence that delays in care were linked to veterans' deaths. But the report cautioned that, even so, the Phoenix VA has...				 
				 				
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Whistleblower News from the Inside - August 26, 2014

				
Posted  08/26/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

NP Precision Inc. pleads guilty to $1.2M fraud – The majority owner of defense contractor NP Precision, which produces and sells hardware components used in military aircraft, plead guilty to misusing progress payments on government contracts by failing to pay subcontractors and requesting progress payments under the contracts for costs that it had not actually incurred.  				 
				 				
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Whistleblower News from the Inside - August 22, 2014

				
Posted  08/22/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

GAP releases report on UN whistleblower cases -- The report details ten representative whistleblower cases from the United Nations and its funds, programs and agencies, and examines their consistent failure to protect whistleblowers from retaliation, in violation of the 2014 U.S. Consolidated Appropriations.  GAP

MassMutual whistleblower speaks on "why I became a...				 
				 				
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Whistleblower Spotlight -- Hanford Whistleblower Shelly Doss

				
Posted  08/22/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team 

This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" shines on Shelly Doss, a former environmental compliance specialist with Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), an environmental cleanup contractor for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.  Located in central Washington, Hanford made plutonium for nuclear weapons for decades and now is the country's largest environmental cleanup site...				 
				 					 

						
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DOJ Catch of the Week -- Bank of America

				
Posted  08/22/14
								

				 
				
Bank of America Sign
				 				This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to Bank of America.  Yesterday, the North Carolina based banking giant agreed to pay $16.65 billion to resolve federal and state mortgage fraud claims against the bank and its former and current subsidiaries, including Countrywide Financial Corporation and Merrill Lynch.  It is the largest civil settlement with a single entity in American history.   See 
						
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A Prosecutor’s Look at the Justice System from the Other Side of the Bars

				
Posted  08/21/14
								

				 
								 				By Jason Enzler

A former prosecutor was arrested in New York City in 2012 for spray-painting “NYPD Get Your Hands Off Me” on the entrance to city hall. That fact alone makes for a rather odd story. But in the case of Bobby Constantino, the “vandal” in question, there is much more to the story. And unfortunately, it is as relevant today -- with the ongoing strife in Ferguson, MO over allegations of police...				 
				 				
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Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Exposes Cancer Clinic Horror 

				
Posted  08/21/14
								

				 
								 				[caption id="" align="alignright" width="280"] Source: Madison County Sheriff's Department[/caption]

By Marlene Koury

In late 2011, Kristi Beeson was working as a laboratory technician at Rose Cancer Clinic in Mississippi, but had a bad feeling that something was not quite right.  In a short time, she had witnessed numerous fraudulent practices at the clinic, including unqualified technicians performing bone...				 
				 					 

						
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Anatomy of a Medicare Fraud Scam – Power Wheelchairs

				
Posted  08/21/14
								

				 
								 				By Gordon Schnell

It may not be the biggest scam contributing to the estimated $50 billion annual price tag for Medicare fraud and abuse.  But according to a recent Washington Post report, it could be one of the simplest and most lucrative ones.  It is the power wheelchair scam.  According to the Post, "criminals disguised themselves as medical-supply companies.  They ginned up bogus bills, saying they’d...				 
				 					 

						
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Whistleblower News from the Inside - August 19, 2014

				
Posted  08/19/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Portrait of an SEC whistleblower -- Former MassMutual Financial Group employee Bill Lloyd, who received a $400,000 reward, tells his story of blowing the whistle on the company’s investment scheme that bilked investors out of retirement funds.  NYT

Tucson hospitals pay $35M to settle whistleblower suit -- Nonprofit Carondelet Health Network has agreed to pay $35 million to...				 
				 				
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Whistleblower News from the Inside - August 15, 2014

				
Posted  08/15/14
								

				 
								 				By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Border Patrol corrupt and covering up shootings? – Whistleblower James Tomsheck, the agency’s former head of Internal Affairs, says at least 7 deaths in the past few years at the hands of border patrol agents have been “highly suspect.”  Center for Investigative Reporting

Sikorsky company hit with $50 million qui tam lawsuit – The whistleblower lawsuit, filed by the...				 
				 				
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