-- “THERE WAS A FINAL SENSE OF JUSTICE, OF ‘WOW SOMETIMES IN OUR COUNTRY WE PREVAIL AND THERE’S JUSTICE.’”
ITT Technical Institutes whistleblower Rodney Lipscomb, commenting on the Institutes’ recent collapse, weeks after the Department of Education banned it from enrolling new students using federal financial aid. Read more here.
-- "In our opinion, if they were being honest and forthright, they’d have supported my client when the matter was raised internally. And if they had supported my client, Monsanto would not have been able to use them as a shield, which they did in arguing that my client was wrong. "
Stuart Meissner of Meissner Associates, attorney for the SEC whistleblower who was recently awarded $22.4 million, on why the...
-- “New and expanded uses of data analytics to identify suspicious billing patterns. . . are providing law enforcement agencies with powerful investigative tools to combat fraud and abuse in federal health care programs.”
HHS OIG SAC Shimon Richmond, commenting on a $7.4M settlement between the federal government and a Florida physicians group accused of subjecting patients to medically unnecessary tests. Read...
-- “The SEC whistleblower program has had a transformative impact on the agency, enabling us to bring high quality enforcement cases quicker using fewer resources.”
Andrew Ceresney, Director of the SEC Division of Enforcement, commenting on the agency’s awarding over $100 million to whistleblowers.
-- "THE LACK OF CASES IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS FOR ANY MISCONDUCT RELATED TO THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HAS BECOME AN ALL-TOO COMMON COMPLAINT. . . . [E]VEN THOSE FEW CASES THAT WERE BROUGHT HAVE NOW ENDED UP LARGELY AS DEFEATS FOR THE GOVERNMENT."
New York Times "White Collar Watch" writer Peter J. Henning from his column Prosecution of Financial Crisis Fraud Ends With a Whimper. Click here for more.
-- “A PREOCCUPATION WITH MOSTLY PHANTOM ELECTION FRAUD LEADS TO REAL INCIDENTS OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT, WHICH UNDERMINE RATHER THAN ENHANCE CONFIDENCE IN ELECTIONS, PARTICULARLY IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES."
U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson, in an opinion striking down parts of Wisconsin's strict voter ID law. Click here for more.