Have a Claim?

Click here for a confidential contact or call:

1-212-350-2774

Whistleblower News From the Inside -- October 18, 2017

Posted  October 18, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

SEC Charges Rio Tinto with Fraud — The lawsuit accuses British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and two of its former executives of hiding losses by inflating the value of African coal assets. BBC

Doctor Admits $3M Fraud in Medicare, Insurance Billing — A North Jersey doctor admitted Tuesday he defrauded Medicare and insurance companies out of $3 million by lying about who performed physical therapy on patients over a nine-year period. NJ.com

Justice Department Indicts 2 Chinese Nationals in Synthetic Opioid Case — As part of recent efforts to keep deadly synthetic opioids from illegally entering the United States, DOJ indicted two Chinese nationals and their North American based traffickers and distributors for conspiracy to distribute large quantities of fentanyl and its analogues, drugs that are roughly 50 times more powerful than heroin. NPR