Whistleblower News From The Inside — May 3, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Government charges South Dakota of wrongly putting thousands in nursing homes — “In a scathing rebuke of the state’s health care system, the Justice Department said [] thousands of patients were being held unnecessarily in sterile, highly restrictive group homes.”  NYT

When farm to table is really fraud to table — “As more consumers become interested in locally sourced foods and sustainable farming, restaurants are racing to oblige. . . .  Unfortunately, some of th[eir] claims are misleading or outright fabrications.  CBS

US Chamber works behind the scenes to gut whistleblower protections — “Ensuring that contractors don’t defraud the government is clearly in the public interest. Yet . . . the Chamber has been . . . advocate[ing] policy changes that would reduce financial penalties on many companies and make it harder for whistleblowers to report alleged misconduct.”  Truth Out

Lawsuit against New York group home claiming abusive treatment — The three families that filed the action claim staff “punched, kicked and spit on disabled residents and that state authorities knew about the abuse and did nothing for weeks.”  ABC

Berlin Brandenburg airport corruption whistleblower poisoned — “German prosecutors are investigating allegations of grievous bodily harm, amid reports that an engineer working on Berlin’s troubled new airport was poisoned.  German media say the man was a whistleblower in a corruption scandal involving an airport construction firm.”  BBC

Whistleblower speaks out about food stamp fraud — “Angela Dominguez works for the [New Mexico] Human Services Department as a case processor for food stamps, and she and other case workers from all across the state say they were ordered to find ways to make emergency food stamp cases into non-emergencies.”  KOB4