Category: False Claims California

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rewards Whistleblowers Commission Targets Fraudulent Trading Schemes CFTC Awards Climbing 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 and commodities like gold or other precious […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER $85 Million Nursing Home Medicare Fraud Jury Verdict Upheld $255 Million After Statutory Penalties And Trebling Whistleblower Prosecuted Case On Her Own The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit last month affirmed a jury verdict against a nursing home management company which found the company […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Rewards Blowing The Whistle On Healthcare Fraud Whistleblower Cases Under The False Claims Act  Former Employees Bring Alleged Fraud To Light Under the False Claims Act (FCA),31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq., the federal government rewards whistleblowers who present credible information of false claims for reimbursements under […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Illegal Kickbacks For Prescribing Medications Whistleblower Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Kickbacks for prescriptions violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, and, when the government is paying for the services, the False Claims Act. 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b (Anti-Kickback Statute); 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. (False Claims Act). The government rewards […]

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 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 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Rewards Blowing The Whistle On Healthcare Fraud Whistleblower Cases Under The False Claims Act  Under the False Claims Act (FCA),31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq., the federal government rewards whistleblowers who present credible information of false claims made to the government for payments and reimbursements under programs […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Contractors May Defraud The Government Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Contractors who defraud the government in connection with federally funded construction projects or other government orders for work projects or goods violate the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. (FCA). Private citizens who report […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Rewards Whistleblowers Reporting Healthcare Fraud Unnecessary, Unsupervised and Unaccredited Practices When the government pays for medical services through Medicare, Medicaid or other programs, the provider is bound by government rules related to those services. The government is defrauded when the provider breaks those rules but charges the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Environmental and Securities Fraud by Biofuel Industry Whistleblower Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Private citizens who bring any kind of fraud against the government to light are rewarded under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq. (FCA), when the government recovers. The fraud may include false […]