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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.

				

			

			
						
					
			

	
		
		

			

				
				
Precious Metals, Costly Fraud

				
Posted  02/4/22
								

				 
				
stack of coins
				 				Safeguard Metals LLC and its principal, Jeffrey Santulan a/k/a Jeffrey Hill were hit with multiple enforcement actions this week, alleging fraud in their sale of securities and commodities to investors they targeted to sell their existing securities and invest the proceeds into gold and silver coins.  The CFTC and 27 state security regulatory agencies jointly filed one action, and the SEC filed its own action.  Both...				 
				 					 

						
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													  Financial and Investment Fraud, 
													  Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, 
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Catch of the Week: Feds Shut The Door on an Uncommon Fraud Scheme involving New York Indigent Care Pool

				
Posted  02/3/22
								

				 
				
				 				The Southern District of New York announced a $12.9 million settlement with healthcare provider The Door, which provided services to uninsured youth for which it received reimbursement from New York State’s Indigent Care Pool.  The settlement demonstrates the importance of whistleblowers, including the two that brought this case and stand to share in up to 25% of what the government collected, in helping to shut...				 
				 					 

						
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													  FCA Federal, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
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DOJ Announces $5.7 Billion in FCA Recoveries in Fiscal Year 2021, with Boost from Purdue Settlement Claim

				
Posted  02/2/22
								

				 
				
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				 				DOJ has released its annual announcement of recoveries in civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government, and the total recoveries are eye-popping: $5.65 billion in settlements and judgments.  These recoveries make FY2021 the second largest year in False Claims Act history, and the largest since 2014.

As in prior years, healthcare fraud dominated, with more than $5 billion of the total...				 
				 					 

						
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													  FCA Federal, 
													  Government Procurement Fraud, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Importance of Whistleblowers, 
													  Managed Care, 
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2021 Whistleblower of the Year Goes to... Reality Winner

				
Posted  02/1/22
								

				 
				
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				 				The results are in, and Constantine Cannon’s 2021 Whistleblower of the Year award goes to Reality Winner.  She is the former military contractor who publicly released a top-secret NSA intelligence report about Russia’s attempt to infiltrate the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.  For doing so, Winner was ordered to serve the longest sentence (five years and three months) ever imposed for disclosing classified...				 
				 					 

						
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Catch of the Week: Texas Hospice CEO Gets 13 Year Sentence in $60 Million Fraud Scheme

				
Posted  01/28/22
								

				 
				
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				 				A federal judge in Texas sentenced Bradley Harris, former head of Novus Health Services, Inc. hospice company in Frisco, to more than thirteen years in prison and ordered him to pay $27.6 million in restitution. The sentence, announced in a DOJ press release, follows his guilty plea on charges of conspiracy and fraud on Medicare and Medicaid.

Harris is the latest to be sentenced in a fraud scheme spanning...				 
				 					 

						
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													  Catch of the Week, 
													  Government Programs Fraud, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Home Health and Hospice, 
													  Improper Medical Facility, 
													  Improper Medical Personnel, 
													  Lack of Medical Necessity, 
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Top Ten Financial and Healthcare Fraud Prison Sentences of 2021

				
Posted  01/28/22
								

				 
				
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				 				Individuals involved in financial and healthcare fraud schemes face not just civil liability, but also criminal penalties – including prison time. In 2021, the Department of Justice obtained substantial prison sentences in a myriad of cases involving healthcare and financial frauds, many of which involved convictions of the type of fraudulent schemes that whistleblowers report. Whistleblowers play an essential role...				 
				 					 

						
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													  Compounding Pharmacy Fraud, 
													  COVID-19, 
													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  Education Fraud, 
													  Financial and Investment Fraud, 
													  Healthcare Fraud, 
													  Home Health and Hospice, 
													  Lack of Medical Necessity, 
													  Medicare, 
													  Money Laundering, 
													  Ponzi Schemes, 
													  Securities Fraud, 
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A Tool to Help Level the Playing Field for Low-Income Tenants

				
Posted  01/24/22
										

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						Gordon Schnell, Elizabeth “Liz” Soltan						
									

				 
				
Headshots of attorneys Liz Soltan and Gordon Schnell
				 				Published in the Boston Globe

It happens all the time to low-income tenants: apartments crumbling and in disrepair, mold growing on the walls, pest infestations, unfair extra charges, and landlords who will not make things right so long as they can still make a buck. . . .  For these mistreated tenants, there remains little ability to enforce their right to safe and stable housing.  For the most part, they remain...				 
				 					 

						
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Top Ten State Fraud Recoveries of 2021

				
Posted  01/21/22
								

				 
				
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				 				State enforcement of anti-fraud laws is an important deterrent and tool to create accountability.  In cases of healthcare fraud and financial fraud, including government contract fraud, unlawful kickbacks, and tax evasion, state governments act as critical enforcement authorities, including through state False Claims Acts.

Whistleblowers with information about fraud that violates state laws, or involves state...				 
				 					 

						
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Top Ten Federal Financial Fraud Recoveries of 2021

				
Posted  01/21/22
								

				 
				
Money with Gavel and Handcuffs
				 				While 2021 may have felt like more of the same as the pandemic dragged on, it marked some new trends in federal financial fraud recoveries. As we predicted last year, the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 has heralded some large recoveries against banks. The Act also established an Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Program, so that whistleblowers who report financial institutions engaging in money laundering –...				 
				 					 

						
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													  Antitrust General, 
													  Bribery and Bid-Rigging, 
													  Criminal Proceedings, 
													  Financial and Investment Fraud, 
													  FIRREA, 
													  Foreign Exchange, 
													  Market Manipulation and Trading Violations, 
													  Money Laundering, 
													  Price Fixing, 
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Top Ten Tax Recoveries for 2021

				
Posted  01/19/22
								

				 
				
Currency Zoomed In
				 				Our top tax recoveries for 2021 total over $7 billion, an impressive number that is due largely to just one of our top ten tax recoveries. Tax evaders were creative last year, utilizing offshore banking, good old tax fraud, and forum shopping for an accounting opinion that fits—all with the intention of cheating the IRS and, in return, the taxpaying public. IRS Criminal Investigation flexed its muscles and went...				 
				 					 

						
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													  Abusive Tax Shelters, 
													  FCA State, 
													  IRS Whistleblower Reward Program, 
													  Tax Credit and Deduction Fraud, 
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