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Whistleblower News From The Inside - March 31, 2015

Posted  March 31, 2015

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

StubHub sues Ticketmaster and Golden State Warriors over alleged anticompetitive ticketing practices — “In what could prove to be a landmark case in the sports ticket marketplace, StubHub . . . accus[es] the two of conspiring to create an illegal resale market by telling season-ticket holders to only resell through their platform.”  ESPN

Ex-Israeli leader found guilty of corruption — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been found guilty of accepting money from American businessman Morris Talansky when Olmert was Mayor of Jerusalem and a Cabinet minister.  NPR

Paramount whistleblower claims retaliation after reporting embezzlement by labor relations chief — Former employee Nichole Goluskin claims Paramount officials retaliated against her for claiming her boss, Stephen Koppekin, the studio’s longtime EVP Industrial Relations, had been overcharging expenses for travel on behalf of the union pension and health plans on which he served as a management trustee.  Deadline

The rise of the food safety whistleblower — Food industry employees have been increasingly using the whistleblower protections provided under the Food Safety Modernization Act with OSHA reporting 144 whistleblower complaints since 2011.  Food Safety News

A call for reauthorizing the qui tam provisions of the Washington Medicaid False Claims Act – “Current Washington law encourages whistleblowers to come forward, but key provisions of that law expire next year and the state Legislature has been slow to reauthorize them.  It should act, and do so decisively.”  Seattle Times

SEC charges billionaire Lynn Tilton with fraud — The securities regulator claims Tilton and her New York-based Patriarch Partners misled investors and improperly collected nearly $200M in fees.  CNBC