Whistleblower News From The Inside -- October 9, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Contractor gets 3-year sentence for Iraq fraud that cost U.S. millions – A former government contractor who helped scam the State Department out of millions of dollars was sentenced Friday to three years in prison. Jose Rivera, 57, of Potomac, Md., worked with two others to trick the contractor DynCorp into paying a grossly inflated rent for a training camp in Iraq, according to...

In Their Own Words -- Porrino

-- "The conduct alleged in our lawsuit is nothing short of evil." New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino discussing the lawsuit brought by NJ against drug maker Insys

August 18, 2017

Illinois announced a $4.45 million settlement with the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics Inc. (Insys) for deceptively marketing and selling a highly addictive opioid drug for an array of treatments that were not approved by the Food And Drug Administration (FDA). The settlement resolves Madigan’s 2016 lawsuit against Insys for its sale of Subsys, which is significantly more powerful than morphine and intended exclusively for the treatment of breakthrough cancer pain....

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- July 12, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Ex-Insys employee in U.S. kickback case loses fight to smoke pot -- Jeffrey Pearlman, a former sales manager for Insys Therapeutics who was indicted in December for his role in an alleged scheme to pay kickbacks to doctors to induce them to prescribe the opioid Subsys, has lost the argument that he has a constitutional right to use medical marijuana while on bail. Reuters Whistleblower lawsuit...

Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 9, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Bristol-Myers Squibb to pay $19.5 million to settle false marketing allegations -- California, along with 42 other states and the District of Columbia, reached a $19.5 million agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb over allegations that the company illegally marketed its atypical antipsychotic drug Abilify.  The investigation found that Bristol-Myers Squibb engaged in off-label marketing by illegally promoting Abilify for therapeutic uses for which it was...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — July 15, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Whistleblower’s phone call halts child-endangerment on set of Divergent movie sequel.  After a whistleblower’s frantic calls, union representatives stepped in to halt the shooting of chaotic scenes with child actors, some as young as four, scrambling through a gauntlet of 100+ untrained adult extras swinging metal clubs, axes and machetes.  Deadline. Nine defendants charged in scam involving complex, international stock manipulation and money laundering. ...

Doctors Be Warned: DOJ Steps Up Enforcement of Anti-Kickback Law Against Individual Medical Professionals

The Department of Justice has recovered millions of dollars from hospitals, nursing homes, pharmaceutical companies and other medical providers through civil and criminal enforcement of the Anti-Kickback Law.  But the agency has begun paying increased attention to the doctors, nurses and administrative professionals on the receiving end of these bribes. The Anti-Kickback Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b) makes it illegal to “knowingly and willfully offer[] or pay[]” or “solicit[] or...

Whistleblower News From The Inside — June 26, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team  Doctors accused of fraud were top earners -- Most of the doctors swept up in last week's national Medicare fraud takedown collected a lot more from Medicare than others in the same specialty, according to Medicare physician payment data for 2013.   Modern Healthcare Nurse pleads guilty to kickbacks -- A Connecticut pain clinic nurse has pleaded guilty to federal charges of accepting kickbacks from...