ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Wants Whistleblower Help Blowing The Whistle On Fraud Employees And Other Insiders With Credible Information Of Fraud The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rewards individuals who provide original information to the CFTC about fraudulent trading schemes in futures, options, foreign currency, virtual currency […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Jewelry, Cash, Checks, and Personal Information Jewelry and Family Keepsakes Preventing Caregiver Theft We often write about caregivers taking cash, credits cards and checks from seniors and even getting their hands on seniors’ homes and financial accounts through fraud and undue influence. But jewelry and family keepsakes can […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors Targets of Financial Elder Abuse If You’re a Victim, We Can Help When Brokers, Agents, and Advisors Prey on the Elderly Stock brokers, insurance agents and financial advisors often target the elderly and ingratiate themselves to older persons in order to sell them products they do not […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  California False Claims Act Rewards Whistleblowers  Expanding The Act To Tax Fraud Legislation Approved By The State Assembly On June 10, the California State Assembly approved AB 2570, legislation sponsored by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, seeking substantial expansion of the California False Claims Act (CFCA). Among other […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Securities and Exchange Commission Rewards Whistleblowers Any Securities Fraud Can Be The Basis of a Whistleblower Case Reporting Domestic And Offshore Securities Fraud On June 4, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded $50 million to an individual who provided detailed, firsthand observations of misconduct by […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents at Risk Neglect and Lack of Supervision Pressure Wounds/Bedsores Can Be Deadly Neglect and abandonment of nursing home residents can be fatal. Pressure wounds/bedsores and infections can kill. Understaffing and lack of training and supervision are real problems within care facilities and the pandemic has […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Social Isolation And The Danger Of Elder Abuse Staying In Touch More Important Than Ever Financial Abusers Take Advantage Of Isolation As our litigators have shared before, social isolation is a common denominator in almost all the financial elder abuse cases we see. When a senior is isolated, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents at Risk Negligence, Neglect, and Intentional Abuse Dementia Patients Particularly at Risk Nursing home residents are at risk of harm from staff negligence, neglect, abandonment and even intentional abuse such as rape, sexual assault, battery, intentional overmedication, and other forms of abuse. Dementia patients are […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Understand The Costs And Downsides Deferred Annuities Are Insurance Policies Not Fund Investments Do Not Be Rushed Into A Sale When selling annuities to senior citizens, insurance agents may gloss over the fine print and leave out some important details about how annuities actually work. Our litigators recommend […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Disagreement Over Government’s Power To Dismiss Senator Grassley Speaks Out Again Since early 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has actively sought to dismiss dozens of cases brought by whistleblowers under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. Senator Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), a […]