Whistleblower News From The Inside — February 2, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Centerra Services International to pay $7.4M to settle whistleblower charges —  According to the government and whistleblower, the company (formerly known as Wackenhut Services) “violated the False Claims Act by double billing and inflating labor costs in connection with a contract for firefighting and fire protection services in Iraq.”  DOJ

Government Accountability Project issues White Paper on why SEC whistleblowers wait — “The report is an in-depth study of the factors whistleblowers face to ‘do it right’ when they challenge corporate misconduct, and the dangers of pressuring them to make ‘quick and dirty’ reports.  GAP

Charleston airport staffers fired after filing whistleblower suit — “Two Charleston County Aviation Authority employees were fired, one week after they filed a whistleblower’s lawsuit alleging they were demoted after pointing out spending irregularities and the agency’s top leaders’ failure to follow purchasing policies.”  Post and Courier

SAP SE to pay $3.7M to settle FCPA charges — “An SEC investigation found that SAP’s deficient internal controls allowed a former SAP executive to pay $145,000 in bribes to a senior Panamanian government official and offer bribes to two others in exchange for lucrative sales contracts.”  SEC

China says online lender Ezubao took $7.6B in giant Ponzi scheme — “A Chinese online finance company bilked investors out of more than $7.6 billion, spent lavishly on gifts and salaries and buried the evidence, according to local authorities who described the operation as an enormous Ponzi scheme.”  NYT

Whistleblowers ask U.S. attorney for new probe of Los Alamos fraud — “Three former employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory are asking Damon Martinez, U.S. attorney for New Mexico, to reopen an old fraud case at the lab and look into the 2003 death of a former lab deputy director they maintain is suspicious.”  Albuquerque Journal