Whistleblower News From The Inside -- January 17, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

U.S. charges Barclays forex trader with fraud – The Justice Department yesterday announced the charges against Barclay’s foreign exchange trader Robert Bogucki for his role in a 2011 front-running scheme. Bogucki, who was the bank’s head of foreign exchange trading in New York, allegedly manipulated options ahead of Hewlett-Packard Company’s planned acquisition of a British company. Reuters

Three individuals convicted in pain and scar cream kickback scheme against military insurance program – The owner of an Orlando, Florida-area pharmacy, a medical doctor, and a patient recruiter were convicted in a kickback scheme in which TRICARE paid the pharmacy $4.3 million in false claims for expensive pain and scar creams. DOJ

British regulator told to apologize to RBS whistleblower – Britain’s Financial Regulators Complaints Commissioner, which handles complaints against watchdogs, told Britain’s markets regulator to apologize to a former Royal Bank of Scotland employee after it offered “unconvincing” arguments for why it revealed his identity to the bank in a whistleblower case in 2013. Reuters