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Whistleblower News from the Inside - November 14, 2014

Posted  November 14, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Varicose vein device maker indicted for illegal sales activity — DOJ indicts Vascular Solutions Inc. and its CEO with selling medical devices without FDA approval and conspiring to defraud the US by engaging in a sales campaign despite FDA warnings, a whistleblower’s complaint, and a failed clinical trial showing that the device was less safe and less effective than a product that had already been approved.  DOJ

“Outing” a whistleblower is an adverse action – The Fifth Circuit issued its decision yesterday in Halliburton v. Admin. Review Bd., on the scope of SOX whistleblower protections, finding that outing  a whistleblower is a prohibited adverse action.   US Courts

Former executive director of the State Bar of CA files whistleblower lawsuit — Joseph Dunn, also a former State Senator, alleged in the suit that he was dismissed without cause shortly after filing an anonymous complaint to the bar’s trustees on Nov. 3 identifying “serious ethical breaches, prosecutorial lapses and fiscal improprieties.”  Reuters

Olympic skier banned for manipulating race results — International Ski Federation bans Vanessa Mae for four years after confirming results of races in Slovenia were manipulated for her to achieve the qualifying points required to compete at the Olympics.  Telegraph

UK going all in for Forex probe — A source claims that Britain’s finance ministry will hand the country’s anti-fraud agency all the funds it needs to conduct a criminal investigation into alleged rigging of the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market.  Business Insider

Debt brokers illegally exposed personal information — The FTC alleges that debt sellers posted up to 70,000 consumers’ bank account and credit card numbers, birth dates, contact information, employers’ names, and information about debts the consumers allegedly owed on a public website in an attempt to sell portfolios of past-due payday loan, credit card, and other purported debt.   FTC