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Whistleblower News From The Inside — August 11, 2016

Posted  August 11, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

8 Floridians charged in $157M compounding pharmacy fraud – Eight Floridians are accused of submitting false claims by prescribing medication tainted by illegal kickbacks and bribes and misrepresenting the ingredients in compounded prescriptions. DOJ

South Korean Novartis AG executives charged with bribery – Six former and current Novartis executives in the company’s Korean unit were indicted for allegedly paying more than $2M to doctors in exchange for prescribing the company’s medications. Stat News

Whistleblower alleges IBM subsidiary scammed $13M from Fannie Mae — A recently unsealed complaint alleges that IBM subsidiary Seterus collected bonuses for incomplete work on pre-foreclosure documents required to be completed when a borrower defaults. A former Seterus employee brought the whistleblower suit. Mortgage Professional America

Dallas Cowboys legend Deion Sanders accused of misusing subsidized school lunch funds – Sanders is accused of submitting more than $1M in fake claims through his charity Uplift Fort Worth to a federal program that funds lunches for children in need; the charity filed claims for meals at nonexistent locations and locations where no children were present. Dallas Business Journal

CENTCOM accused of manipulating intel on ISIS – A government task force report, stemming from a senior CENTCOM analyst’s whistleblower complaint, reveals that beginning in mid-2014, CENTCOM final intelligence reports contradicted the initial internal assessments made by its own analysts. CBS News

Ukrainian judge caught with jar of cash – Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau seized $150k from judge Mykola Chaus, who now faces up to 12 years in prison. The money is allegedly a bribe judge Chaus received in exchange for a favorable decision in a suspected drug dealer’s case. Ukraine Today