Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 29, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Martin Shkreli’s Ex-Lawyer Is Convicted of Fraud — A lawyer who once advised the former drug company executive Martin Shkreli was convicted on Wednesday of helping Mr. Shkreli defraud a pharmaceutical company. NY Times

Lawyer: FIFA not seeking whistleblower’s Russia doping info — FIFA has made no attempt to contact Russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov to gain information about “many” footballers embroiled in the widespread conspiracy by the 2018 World Cup host nation, according to his lawyer. USA Today

Medicare Fails To Recover Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Lab Overcharges — Companion Dx is one of at least six clinical labs mired in bankruptcy court after Medicare alleged they improperly billed the government for unnecessary urine, genetic or heart disease tests expected to cause hundreds of millions dollars in losses to taxpayers, an investigation by Kaiser Health News found. Kaiser