Whistleblower News From The Inside - March 3, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Superstorm of fraud reported in denial of Hurricane Sandy claims — FEMA executive acknowledges fraud in engineering reports used by insurance companies to deny storm victims insurance relief.  CBS

SEC makes new Dodd-Frank whistleblower award — The SEC announces a whistleblower award payout between $475,000 and $575,000 to a former company officer “who reported original, high-quality information about a securities fraud.”  SEC

Snowden ready to return to US — The NSA whistleblower would come home “but on the condition that he be given guarantees to receive a fair and impartial trial.”  RT

Seven of nine EU bodies lack internal whistleblower rules — “Only the European Commission and the European Court of Auditors have complied with the January 2014 obligation to have the revised [whistleblower] rules put in place.”  EU Observer

Questions remain over sacking of whistleblower by Australian Jewish News — The paper denied firing Adam Kamien for releasing a damaging text message which resulted in the resignation of Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant as president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia.  Guardian

Patient safety consultant settles False Claims Act charges — Dr. Charles Denham, who operates the consulting company Health Care Concepts Inc. and the research organization Texas Medical Institute of Technology, agrees to pay $1M to settle allegations he solicited and accepted kickbacks.  DOJ