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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- May 9, 2018

Posted  May 9, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Whistleblower revealed $32M in missing Navy equipment, mishandled classified material – The Office of Special Counsel announced this week that it notified President Trump and Congress of mismanagement at the Naval Sea Logistics Center at Port Hueneme, CA, resulting in over $32 million in unaccounted inventory. The investigation followed a whistleblower’s reports that warehouse employees failed to properly maintain and record inventory for years. OSC

U.S. signals softer approach to penalties for corporate misdeeds – In a speech in New York today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said companies in highly regulated industries like banking are too often assessed multiple fines for the same misconduct. According to former federal prosecutors, much of what Rosenstein announced is already standard practice. For example, companies that recently resolved Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations received credit from U.S. prosecutors for penalties paid to other jurisdictions. Bloomberg

Three physicians to pay $700k to resolve allegations of improper financial relationship with drug testing laboratory – Three doctors agreed to settle allegations they received improper payments for Medicare patient referrals from drug testing lab Universal Oral Fluid Laboratories (UOFL). According to the Justice Department, UOFL paid the physicians to refer patients to the lab for drug tests under arrangements that violated the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute. DOJ