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Here We Go Again -- Johnson & Johnson to Pay Upwards of $2.2 Billion to Settle Civil and Criminal Charges

Posted 07/31/12

By Jason Enzler Only a few weeks after GlaxoSmithKline's blockbuster $3 billion settlement over its healthcare fraud misdeeds relating to Paxil, Wellbutrin and Avandia, Johnson & Johnson is joining the party with a multi-billion dollar settlement of its own. Though it has yet to be finalized, the Wall Street Journal reported that Johnson & Johnson and the DOJ have reached an agreement requiring the company to...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

Wells Fargo Settles for Discriminatory Lending Practices

Posted 07/27/12

By Marlene Koury Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $175 million to settle government charges that it discriminated against qualified African-American and Latino borrowers in its mortgage lending from 2004 through 2009. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the settlement on July 12, 2012, making it the second largest fair lending settlement in the DOJ’s history after its December 2011 settlement with Bank of...

Tagged in: Housing and Mortgage Fraud,

FDAGate -- The Latest Lapse in Government Enforcement

Posted 07/20/12

By Gordon Schnell In what quickly has become the most recent "gate" scandal in Washington, the evidence continues to mount that the FDA acted to stifle whistleblowers within its own ranks. It all began several years ago when a half-dozen FDA scientists and doctors objected to certain imaging devices for mammograms and colonoscopies because of the high levels of radiation they believed the equipment emitted. The...

Tagged in: FDA Fraud,

Big Pharma Strikes Again – Glaxo Settles Largest Healthcare Fraud Case in History

Posted 07/13/12

By Jason Enzler Earlier this month, GlaxoSmithKline entered into the largest settlement in healthcare fraud history -- a whopping $3 billion -- to settle a broad range of criminal and civil charges involving the company’s drugs and marketing practices. Glaxo’s settlement easily surpasses the previous record for healthcare fraud, Pfizer’s $2.3 billion payout in 2009 to settle criminal and civil charges for...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

The IRS Whistleblower Office -- A New Beginning or Just a Lot of Lip Service

Posted 07/6/12

By Gordon Schnell Since its inception in 2007, the IRS Whistleblower Office has been subject to some fairly withering attacks. And for good reason. It was supposed to revamp the IRS whistleblower system, encouraging tipsters to flood in and help the government identify all of those tax cheats and their billions of dollars in unpaid taxes each year. The whistleblowers have certainly done their part. They...

Tagged in: IRS Whistleblower Reward Program,

Business is Booming at the SEC Whistleblower Office as Tips Continue to Flood In

Posted 06/29/12

By Jason Enzler The SEC’s Whistleblower Office is busy these days as tips continue to stream into the agency. Thomas Sporkin, the chief of the SEC’s Office of Market Intelligence, the unit that assesses the credibility of these tips, recently stated that the agency is receiving an average of seven tips per day, with about 2 or 3 of them meriting investigation. Many of these tips are coming from senior...

Tagged in: SEC Whistleblower Reward Program,

Low Scores for Government Efforts to Clean Up Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

Posted 06/25/12

By Gordon Schnell The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, just issued a relatively unflattering report on the government's internal efforts to clean up Medicare and Medicaid fraud. According to the report, the government makes more than $60 billion in improper Medicare and Medicaid payments every year because of fraud, waste and abuse of the system. This comes...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark,

Hear No Evil – The Increased Risk for Companies That Ignore or Retaliate Against Whistleblowers

Posted 06/18/12

By Marlene Koury Corporate misconduct is at an all-time high, according to a recently-issued report titled Inside the Mind of a Whistleblower, from the Ethics Resource Center (ERC). The ERC reported that up to 45 percent of U.S. employees said that they had observed misconduct at various levels in the workplace during 2011. This conduct included falsifying financial reporting information, engaging in...

Tagged in: Retaliation,

Show Me the Money – Large Rewards as an Indispensable Piece of the Whistleblower Enforcement System

Posted 06/15/12

By Gordon Schnell In yet another corporate attempt to upend the surging success of the American whistleblower system, the US Chamber of Commerce recently proposed a cap on whistleblower rewards. Under the False Claims Act as well as the recently implemented whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, whistleblowers are entitled to between 15% and 30% of any government recovery. This has...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Rewards,

Shattering the Myth of the Whistleblower as a Rogue and Disloyal Employee

Posted 06/11/12

By Gordon Schnell In its recently issued report titled Inside the Mind of a Whistleblower, the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) has made some surprising findings on how whistleblowers behave. Perhaps the most surprising of all is that virtually none of them -- a mere 3% -- go directly to the government to report the fraud or misconduct they have witnessed. Instead, they first work within their company to expose...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers,

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Here We Go Again -- Johnson & Johnson to Pay Upwards of $2.2 Billion to Settle Civil and Criminal Charges

Wells Fargo Settles for Discriminatory Lending Practices

FDAGate -- The Latest Lapse in Government Enforcement

Big Pharma Strikes Again – Glaxo Settles Largest Healthcare Fraud Case in History

The IRS Whistleblower Office -- A New Beginning or Just a Lot of Lip Service

Business is Booming at the SEC Whistleblower Office as Tips Continue to Flood In

Low Scores for Government Efforts to Clean Up Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

Hear No Evil – The Increased Risk for Companies That Ignore or Retaliate Against Whistleblowers

Show Me the Money – Large Rewards as an Indispensable Piece of the Whistleblower Enforcement System

Shattering the Myth of the Whistleblower as a Rogue and Disloyal Employee

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Here We Go Again -- Johnson & Johnson to Pay Upwards of $2.2 Billion to Settle Civil and Criminal Charges

Wells Fargo Settles for Discriminatory Lending Practices

FDAGate -- The Latest Lapse in Government Enforcement

Big Pharma Strikes Again – Glaxo Settles Largest Healthcare Fraud Case in History

The IRS Whistleblower Office -- A New Beginning or Just a Lot of Lip Service

Business is Booming at the SEC Whistleblower Office as Tips Continue to Flood In

Low Scores for Government Efforts to Clean Up Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

Hear No Evil – The Increased Risk for Companies That Ignore or Retaliate Against Whistleblowers

Show Me the Money – Large Rewards as an Indispensable Piece of the Whistleblower Enforcement System

Shattering the Myth of the Whistleblower as a Rogue and Disloyal Employee

Learn about Whistleblower Rewards Programs

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