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Boeing Whistleblower’s Family Sues Jet Company Over His Death

Posted 03/21/25

John Barnett worked as a quality control manager at Boeing for 32 years before retiring in 2017. He was one of several Boeing employees to publicly raise safety and quality concerns about the company's manufacturing processes and ultimately sued the company over allegations it retaliated against him for raising those concerns. On March 9, 2024, in the midst of being deposed by Boeing's attorneys in that action,...

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Another Tragic Whistleblower Death - OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji

Posted 12/20/24

As widely reported in the press last week, former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower Suchir Balaji, 26, died by suicide a few weeks ago. The San Francisco police found his body on November 26 after they were called to his apartment prompted by concerns of his wellbeing. Sadly, Balaji adds to the list of whistleblowers who have died this past year amid their efforts to expose what they saw as serious wrongdoing...

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U.S. Forest Service Archaeologist Whistleblower Highlights Destruction of Native American Tribal Sites in North Carolina

Posted 11/26/24

U.S. Forest Service archaeologist Scott Ashcraft knew western North Carolina’s woods contained critical information about human history in the Appalachian Mountains. For years, Ashcraft’s attempts to alert forest managers were ignored. Ashcraft believed outdated modeling overlooked artifacts buried on steep terrains, including significant areas for Native American tribes. Based on this theory, Ashcraft wanted...

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Walgreens to Pay $106.8M to Settle Whistleblower Case Alleging it Billed the Government for Prescriptions it Did Not Dispense

Posted 09/17/24

Walgreens has agreed to pay $106.8 million to settle false claims allegations that between 2009 and 2020 it billed government healthcare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, for prescriptions that it never dispensed because they were not picked up by patients. The government alleged that Walgreens received tens of millions of dollars to which it was not entitled for prescriptions that it never actually provided...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Medicare, Pharma Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

Lead-Tainted Applesauce Marketed for Children Bypasses Overstretched FDA Testing Protocols

Posted 03/1/24

Apple Sauce in Containers Next to Yellow Apple

The NY Times reports that hundreds of children were poisoned last year from cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches that were traced to the Ecuadorian company Negasmart, which supplies to Austrofood and distributes the product under the name Wanabana. The FDA, working with Ecuadorean investigators, traced the contamination of the Sri Lankan imported cinnamon to a spice grinder in Ecuador that likely intentionally...

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February 28, 2024

The owner and operator of a clinical laboratory in Georgia has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $14.3 million to resolve charges of paying illegal kickbacks and causing false claims to be submitted to Georgia’s Medicaid program. According to Capstone Diagnostics’ former laboratory manager, Andrew Maloney directed Capstone to pay volume-based commissions to independent sales representatives in exchange for them arranging medically unnecessary urine drug tests and respiratory pathogen panels to come their way. The laboratory ultimately submitted over $1 million in tainted claims to Georgia Medicaid. For bringing a successful case under the False Claims Act, whistleblower Jesse Allen will receive almost $3 million. DOJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Laboratory and IDTF, Medicaid, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

Catch of the Week: Lincare, Inc.

Posted 02/16/24

This week's Department of Justice (DOJ) Catch of the Week goes to Lincare, Inc., a durable medical equipment supplier with locations throughout the country. Yesterday (February 15), the company agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle DOJ charges of violating the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for the rental of non-invasive ventilators (NIVs) when patients no longer needed or used them. DOJ also charged Lincare...

Tagged in: Catch of the Week, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicaid, Medical Devices and DME, Medicare, Other Government Health Programs, Whistleblower Case,

Top Ten Healthcare False Claims Act Recoveries for 2023

Posted 01/30/24

Doctor Holding Stethoscope with Crossed Arms

This past year was another big year for DOJ enforcement under the False Claims Act, the government's primary fraud-fighting tool. And as we noted in our recent Top Ten listing of False Claims Act recoveries for 2023, all but 3 of the Top Ten recoveries were in the healthcare space involving various schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. So here is our look at the Top Ten healthcare recoveries for...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Medicare, Top 10, Whistleblower Case,

Catch of the Week: New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Posted 01/26/24

This week's Department of Justice (DOJ) Catch of the Week goes to New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Yesterday (January 25), the hospital agreed to pay $801,000 to settle charges it violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for medically unnecessary images for radiation therapy treatments provided to cancer patients. The settlement is notable not for the relatively small amount of money...

Tagged in: Catch of the Week, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicaid, Medicare, Other Government Health Programs, Whistleblower Case,

Top Ten Whistleblower Recoveries for 2023

Posted 01/22/24

2023 was another big year for whistleblowers, helping the government recover billions of dollars in dozens of fraud enforcement actions. As usual, virtually all these whistleblower-prompted recoveries were under the government's three primary whistleblower rewards programs -- the False Claims Act, the SEC Whistleblower Program, and the CFTC Whistleblower Program. Successful whistleblowers under each of these...

Tagged in: CFTC Whistleblower Reward Program, FCA Federal, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Top 10, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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Boeing Whistleblower’s Family Sues Jet Company Over His Death

Another Tragic Whistleblower Death - OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji

U.S. Forest Service Archaeologist Whistleblower Highlights Destruction of Native American Tribal Sites in North Carolina

Walgreens to Pay $106.8M to Settle Whistleblower Case Alleging it Billed the Government for Prescriptions it Did Not Dispense

Lead-Tainted Applesauce Marketed for Children Bypasses Overstretched FDA Testing Protocols

February 28, 2024

Catch of the Week: Lincare, Inc.

Top Ten Healthcare False Claims Act Recoveries for 2023

Catch of the Week: New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Top Ten Whistleblower Recoveries for 2023

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