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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 18, 2017

Posted  December 18, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Whistleblowers: DEA Attorneys Went Easy on McKesson, the Country’s Largest Drug Distributor –   In October, we joined forces with the Washington Post and reported a disturbing story of Washington at its worst – about an act of Congress that crippled the DEA’s ability to fight the worst drug crisis in American history – the opioid addiction crisis. Now, a new front of that joint investigation. It is also disturbing. It’s the inside story of the biggest case the DEA ever built against a drug company: the McKesson Corporation, the country’s largest drug distributor. It’s also the story of a company too big to prosecute. In 2014, after two years of painstaking inquiry by nine DEA field divisions and 12 U.S. Attorneys, investigators built a powerful case against McKesson for the company’s role in the opioid crisis. Our reporting turned up the leader of the DEA team, David Schiller, who tells for the first time how his investigators hit a brick wall in Washington when they tried to hold the powerful company accountable. CBS News

‘No physical record of deeds’: Columbus cemeteries audited after complaints    Two whistleblower complaints about operations at Columbus cemeteries resulted in an audit that could mean significant changes. Elizabeth Barfield, an executive internal auditor with the Columbus Consolidated Government, presented the findings at a recent Columbus Council meeting, calling for better financial oversight and record keeping, among other things. Barfield said the audit was launched after Public Works Director Pat Biegler reported two whistleblower complaints that she received in June. One complaint raised concerns about income fluctuations in the financials and the other about confusion over burial site locations. Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Mental Health Agency Paying $7M to Settle Fraud Claims – One of Mississippi’s regional mental health boards is paying nearly $7 million over claims that it bilked Medicaid for services to preschoolers that were either substandard or not provided at all. U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst announced the settlement of the whistleblower lawsuit Thursday. Region 8 Mental Health Services will pay the money after a former employee, Julie Farmer, filed the False Claims Act lawsuit on behalf of the government in 2009. She’ll get $1.25 million of the $6.93 million. Some of the money will also go to the Mississippi state government to repay the state’s share of the state-federal Medicaid program. The bulk of the settlement money will go to the federal government. US News