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Posted 11/6/18
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IRS Whistleblower Office Releases FY 2017 Annual Report
Posted 01/8/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The IRS recently released its FY 2017 annual report detailing the work of the IRS’ whistleblower office. In 2017, the IRS whistleblower office made 242 awards totaling $33.9 million. This adds on to FY 2016’s total to make 660 awards in the past two years. The 660 awards over the past two years are greater than the 655 awards paid over the previous six years from FY 2010 to...
Justice Department Recovers over $3.7 Billion from False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2017
Posted 12/22/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The Justice Department announced that it obtained more than $3.7 billion in settlements and judgements from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government during the 2017 fiscal year. Of the $3.7 billion, $2.4 billion involved the health care industry. Since the False Claims Act was amended in 1986, the Department of Justice has recovered over $56...
IRS Releases Encouraging Whistleblower Report for 2016
Posted 01/24/17
The Internal Revenue Service recently released its annual report to Congress regarding its whistleblower program and the results are encouraging, with hope for an even better 2017.
Since 2007, whistleblowers have helped the IRS collect more than $3.4 billion in tax revenue and have been awarded more than $465 million for their efforts. Coming off of a strong 2015 in which the IRS awarded 99 whistleblowers a...
IRS Whistleblower Report to Congress Signals a Brighter Future
Posted 02/19/16
By Marlene Koury (published in AccountingWEB)
The IRS Whistleblower Office recently released its annual report to Congress reflecting a pretty good year, with hope for a better year to come. The IRS reported that in fiscal year 2015, it made 99 awards to whistleblowers totaling more than $103 million – more than double the amount of money it awarded whistleblowers in the previous year. The apparent success...
IRS Whistleblower Report to Congress Signals a Brighter Future
Posted 02/18/16
AccountingWEB (February 18, 2016)
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DOJ Announces Another Banner Year For False Claims Act Recoveries -- Whistleblowers Continue to Lead the Charge
Posted 12/4/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Yesterday, to much fanfare, the Department of Justice announced it had obtained more than $3.5 billion in False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for its fiscal year 2015. It is the fourth year in a row the $3.5 billion mark has been crossed, and brings to more than $26 billion the total FCA recoveries the government has obtained since 2009. And once again, as the DOJ made clear...
SEC Releases Whistleblower Report for 2014: The Best Year Yet
Posted 11/20/14
By Marlene Koury
The SEC just released its 2014 Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program report reflecting a record year in both the rewards it has paid and the tips it has received. The SEC issued whistleblower awards to more people in 2014 than in all previous years combined. And the SEC received more than 3,500 tips from whistleblowers, up by 20% from the previous couple of years. It received tips from every state and...
Another Record Year for DOJ Whistleblower Recoveries
Posted 01/16/14
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The DOJ just released its annual compilation of False Claims Act (FCA) statistics. Once again, the numbers are sure to raise eyebrows. Overall, the DOJ recovered $3.8 billion during FY 2013 – an amount second only to last year’s record-breaking recovery of almost $5 billion. Neither of these figures reflects criminal fines and forfeitures or state recoveries for...
Banner Year for Whistleblowers and the Public, No End in Sight
Posted 10/12/12
By Jason Enzler
Fiscal Year 2012 just wound up and the results are in for the government’s total recoveries in False Claims Act cases: $9 billion in fines and penalties. This is over twice that of last year’s tally of $4 billion. And all but one of the top 25 recoveries involved cases where individuals blew the whistle. This past year also included some other notable firsts:
- The largest recovery in...