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Read the Second Place Winner’s Essay in Constantine Cannon’s Law School Scholarship Contest

Posted 03/10/20

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Constantine Cannon is excited to share the second place essay in our first annual Scholarship Essay Writing Contest. The contest asked entrants to discuss the importance of whistleblowers. Our second place winner, Hannah Fitzmorris, wrote about the IRS Whistleblower Reward Program which “empowers ordinary citizens in positions of relative power disadvantage to utilize the tools of morality and duty of...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Scholarship, Whistleblower Eligibility,

“Objective Falsity” Is Not Required Under the False Claims Act: A Legally False Opinion May Suffice

Posted 03/6/20

In a significant win for whistleblowers, a federal appellate court held this week that, in order to determine liability under the False Claims Act, a whistleblower need not prove that a claim is “objectively” false. Instead, the Court held that, consistent with common law, a claim can be false under the FCA if based not on objectively verifiable facts, but on non-compliance with statutory or regulatory...

Tagged in: Court Decision, FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Importance of Whistleblowers, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Medicare, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Eligibility,

Read the Essay Submitted by Will Powell Watson in the Constantine Cannon Law School Scholarship Contest

Posted 03/6/20

Constantine Cannon is excited to share the essay that placed third in our first annual Scholarship Essay Writing Contest. The contest asked entrants to submit an essay addressing the important role whistleblowers play, and steps that can be taken to support and protect them. Entrants were encouraged to relate a personal whistleblower experience or describe a whistleblower who inspired them. Our third-place...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Scholarship, Whistleblower Eligibility,

Read the Essay Submitted by Katelyn Jackson in the Constantine Cannon Law School Scholarship Contest

Posted 02/28/20

Our whistleblower team received dozens of inspired essays from law students across the United States in our first annual Constantine Cannon Law School Scholarship. The contest asked entrants to submit an essay addressing the important role whistleblowers play, and steps that can be taken to support and protect them. Entrants were encouraged to relate a personal whistleblower experience or describe a whistleblower...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Scholarship, Whistleblower Eligibility,

Constantine Cannon Law School Scholarship Recipients: Fifth Place Essay

Posted 02/20/20

Constantine Cannon is delighted to share the essay that placed fifth in our first annual Scholarship Essay Writing Contest. The contest asked entrants to discuss the importance of whistleblowers. Our fifth place winner, Sahdia Khan, wrote about a whistleblower who inspired her, British Intelligence Specialist Katharine Gun. As Ms. Khan writes, Gun, who exposed the United States’ top-secret request that Great...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Scholarship, Whistleblower Eligibility,

Catch of the Week – Hybrid Tech pays $29 Million to Resolve Claims of Collusive Bidding on Sale of Energy Department Loan in Case Brought by Creditors

Posted 02/6/20

Our Catch of the Week arises out of misconduct in a corporate restructuring, features a unique whistleblower, and resulted in a $29 million recovery by the government. The defendants, Hybrid Tech Holdings, LLC and related entities, were alleged to have rigged bids in a government auction of a loan made to Fisker Automotive under the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan...

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Catch of the Week, Government Loan Programs, Government Programs Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Eligibility,

Vote Now for the 2019 Whistleblower of the Year

Posted 01/30/20

Whistleblower Insider wants to hear from you on who should be honored as our 2019 Whistleblower of the Year. As in past years, we are especially interested in those individuals who best encapsulate the qualities of the typical whistleblower — courage, strength, integrity, selflessness and a deep concern for public health and safety. You can choose among the candidates listed below, or identify your own candidate....

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower of the Year, Whistleblower Spotlight and Interviews,

EU, UK, and Canadian Whistleblowers Receive New or Enhanced Protections

Posted 12/5/19
By Ginger Buck

Three recent international developments have occurred that will further enable and encourage whistleblowers to report alleged wrongdoing, and provide guidance for employers and organizations to respond to such complaints. The European Union formally adopted a whistleblower protection directive on September 25, 2019, requiring organizations with 50 or more workers to establish internal reporting channels over the...

Tagged in: Government Programs Fraud, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

November 8, 2019

Two New York City real estate development companies, Mica Gabe Brooklyn LLC and Brooklyn Warehouse 180 LLC, will pay $3 million to resolve claims that they secured a New York tax break, Section 421-a, by falsely stating that building service employees would be paid prevailing wages when, in fact, employees hired at the buildings were paid less than the wages required by law. The $3 million settlement consists of $2.5 million in damages under Section 421-a and the New York False Claims Act, and $415,000 in back wages. The investigation was initiated with the filing of a whistleblower complaint under the NY FCA by local union 32BJ SEIU, which will receive a portion of the damages as a whistleblower reward. NY

Tagged in: FCA State, Government Programs Fraud, Tax Fraud, Whistleblower Eligibility,

In Second-Ever Enforcement Action of Its Kind, SEC Stands with Whistleblower Against Company’s Attempt to Muzzle Reporting

Posted 11/8/19

Imagine that, after you invest in a company, you start to smell a rat. After you try to alert other investors or report what you believe is a fraudulent scheme, the company you invested in draws up an agreement that conditions your shareholding on a prohibition on speaking with regulatory agencies. If it seems illegal, that’s because it is. Yet that’s exactly what online auction and memorabilia company Collectors...

Tagged in: Confidentiality and The Seal, Financial and Investment Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Protection Laws,

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Read the Second Place Winner’s Essay in Constantine Cannon’s Law School Scholarship Contest

“Objective Falsity” Is Not Required Under the False Claims Act: A Legally False Opinion May Suffice

Read the Essay Submitted by Will Powell Watson in the Constantine Cannon Law School Scholarship Contest

Read the Essay Submitted by Katelyn Jackson in the Constantine Cannon Law School Scholarship Contest

Constantine Cannon Law School Scholarship Recipients: Fifth Place Essay

Catch of the Week – Hybrid Tech pays $29 Million to Resolve Claims of Collusive Bidding on Sale of Energy Department Loan in Case Brought by Creditors

Vote Now for the 2019 Whistleblower of the Year

EU, UK, and Canadian Whistleblowers Receive New or Enhanced Protections

November 8, 2019

In Second-Ever Enforcement Action of Its Kind, SEC Stands with Whistleblower Against Company’s Attempt to Muzzle Reporting

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