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October 24, 2023

AECOM, an architecture and engineering firm in Texas, has agreed to pay $11.8 million to resolve allegations of defrauding FEMA and violating the False Claims Act in connection with efforts to rebuild educational facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.  While serving as a technical assistance contractor for FEMA, AECOM allegedly helped applicants submit fraudulent requests for disaster assistance funds, resulting in some applicants receiving funds in excess of what was permitted.  The misconduct was revealed by whistleblower Robert Romero, who will receive a relator’s share of $2.4 million as part of the settlement.  DOJ

October 11, 2023

Automotive management company Victory Automotive Group Inc. (VAG) has agreed to pay $9 million for allegedly providing false information on a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness application.  In order to be eligible for a PPP loan under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, VAG allegedly falsely certified that it was a small business with fewer than 500 employees, when in fact it and its affiliates cumulatively had over 3,000 employees across the country.  The misconduct was reported by a whistleblower in a qui tam suit; the whistleblower will receive a relator’s share of about $1.63 million.  DOJ

October 10, 2023

Mobile cardiac PET scan provider Cardiac Imaging Inc. (CII), and its founder and owner Sam Kancherlapalli, have agreed to pay over $75 million and over $10 million, respectively, to resolve a qui tam case by former billing manager Lynda Pinto, which alleged the company, Kancherlapalli, and part-owner Richard Nassenstein defrauded Medicare.  In violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, and False Claims Act, CII and Kancherlapalli allegedly paid kickbacks to referring cardiologists in the form of fees, ostensibly for supervising PET scans, that were far above fair market value.  The alleged misconduct occurred over a ten year period.  DOJ

Catch of the Week: The Boeing Company

Posted  10/2/23
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This week's Department of Justice (DOJ) Catch of the Week goes to the Boeing Company.  Yesterday (September 28), DOJ announced the Virginia-based aircraft maker agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle charges it violated the False Claims Act in connection with its Navy contracts to manufacture the V-22 Osprey military aircraft. According to the government, for more than ten years Boeing violated contractual...

October 2, 2023

BioTek reMEDys Inc. and its CEO, Chaitanya Gadde, have agreed to pay $20 million to resolve allegations of providing illegal kickbacks to patients and physicians, in violation of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.  Former employees Shantae Wyatt and Latoya Sparrow alleged in a qui tam suit that the specialty pharmacy induced patients to purchase drugs by routinely waiving mandatory copays, and induced physicians to make referrals by providing dinners, gifts, and free administrative or clinical support services.  One physician in particular who received kickbacks, Dr. David Tabby, has paid $480,000 to resolve allegations against him.  Wyatt and Sparrow will receive over $4 million from the settlement with BioTek and Gadde, and over $91,000 from the settlement with Tabby.  DOJ

October 2, 2023

Genomic Health, Inc. (GHI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exact Sciences Corporation that provides clinical diagnostic tests, has agreed to pay $32.5 million to resolve two separate qui tam suits alleging violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute in connection with lab tests for cancer patients.  GHI allegedly evaded Medicare’s 14-Day Rule—which prohibits labs from separately billing for the same covered tests within 14 days of a patient’s discharge from a hospital—by canceling and reordering tests so they fell within appropriate time frames, seeking reimbursement directly from Medicare, and writing off unpaid lab fees owed by hospitals.  As a result of this settlement, the whistleblowers in the case will receive over $5.5 million.  DOJ

September 30, 2023

The Cigna Group has agreed to pay over $172 million and enter into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement in order to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act.  According to qui tam suit by a former part-owner of a Cigna vendor, Robert Cutler—who will receive an $8.1 million share of the settlement—the healthcare company knowingly submitted inaccurate and untruthful diagnosis codes on behalf of Medicare Advantage Plan beneficiaries in order to inflate their reimbursements from Medicare.  DOJ

September 28, 2023

The Boeing Company has agreed to pay $8.1 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act.  Under a Navy contract to manufacture a tiltrotor military aircraft, Boeing allegedly failed to comply with certain manufacturing specifications, submitted false claims, and made false statements.  The claims were brought in a qui tam suit by former Boeing employees, who will receive a relator’s share of $1.5 million as a result of the settlement.  DOJ

Catch of the Week: Gramercy Cardiac Diagnostic Services

Posted  09/26/23
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This week's Department of Justice (DOJ) Catch of the Week goes to Gramercy Cardiac Diagnostic Services and its owner Klaus Peter Rentrop.  Gramercy provides cardiac diagnostic imaging services, previously operating out of four offices in New York City.  On Monday (September 18), the DOJ announced Rentrop and Gramercy will pay $6.5 million for violating the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute through their...

CFTC Awards $15 Million to Two Whistleblowers

Posted  09/20/23
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Yesterday (September 19), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced its award of $15 million to two whistleblowers.  Keeping to its commitment of protecting the identity of its whistleblowers, we do not know who the whistleblowers are or the enforcement actions to which the rewards relate.  All we know is the whistleblowers "provided significant information and assistance that led the CFTC to bring...
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