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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- August 27, 2015

Posted  August 27, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Edward Snowden’s legacy? – Meet Cherax snowden, the crayfish species named after the NSA whistleblower.  Ars Technica

No retreat in Vermont fraud investigation – Vermont’s attorney general is conducting a criminal investigation into alleged Medicaid fraud at the Brattleboro Retreat, a private psychiatric hospital, following a whistleblower’s complaints.  The state’s inquiry comes two years after the United States Attorney’s Office rebuffed the whistleblower’s concerns and one year after a federal judge dismissed the whistleblower’s lawsuit.  Burlington Free Press

The plot thickens in Albuquerque – Albuquerque Public Schools CFO Don Moya filed a whistleblower lawsuit against education officials claiming they violated whistleblower protection laws when they came after him for trying to stop now-resigned deputy superintendent Jason Martinez from rigging a lucrative IT contract.  Now, allegations surface of child sexual assault, domestic violence, and dirty dealings at the highest levels state government.  Albuquerque Journal and KOB4

Fraud abroad – A federal court today will sentence a Miami doctor who billed Medicare $25 million for medical services provided at a clinic in . . . Nicaragua.  Along with his son, a senior executive of a managed-care company, Dr. Santiago Montoya used phony Miami-area addresses to cover up the fact that he illegally provided Medicare-paid services to over 1,000 American expatriates living in Nicaragua.  Medicare laws prohibit payments for services provided in a foreign country.  Miami Herald