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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 Continues its Crusade Against Foreign Bribery

				
Posted  08/10/12
								

				 
								 				By Gordon Schnell 

The reinvigorated efforts of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to fight foreign bribery continue to pay off.  This week, the SEC announced that the drug giant, Pfizer, has agreed to pay $60 million to settle criminal and civil charges that its subsidiaries bribed foreign officials in Europe and Asia in order to win business there.  Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), it...				 
				 					 

						
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Expanding Protections for Antitrust Whistleblowers -- A Good Start But Not Nearly Enough

				
Posted  08/6/12
								

				 
								 				By Gordon Schnell (Published in The Hill)

The proposed antitrust whistleblower legislation introduced last week by Senators Leahy (D-Vermont) and Grassley (R-Iowa) is certainly a step in the right direction.  See Expanding Protections for Antitrust Whistleblowers -- Help Is on the Way.  It would for the first time provide protections for employees reporting to the government or within their company antitrust...				 
				 				
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Expanding Protections for Antitrust Whistleblowers -- Help is On the Way

				
Posted  08/3/12
								

				 
								 				By Gordon Schnell 

Two U.S. senators this week proposed legislation that would for the first time extend whistleblower protections to those reporting on violations of the antitrust laws.  The bill, introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) as the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act, would amend the Antitrust Criminal Penalties Enforcement and Reform Act (ACPERA).  This...				 
				 					 

						
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Partnering With Former Fraudsters and Conflicted Parties to Root Out Health Care Fraud -- Is the Government Letting the Fox Guard the Hen House?

				
Posted  08/1/12
								

				 
								 				By Marlene Koury

The government announced last week that it would be partnering with Amerigroup in its new public-private partnership to prevent health care fraud.  If “Amerigroup” and “fraud” in the same sentence sound all too familiar, it is not because of the company's track record in fighting fraud.  Rather, it is likely because Amerigroup paid $225 million in 2008 to resolve claims that it defrauded...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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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...				 
				 					 

						
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