Category: False Claims

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Hospice Chain Settles $12.2 Million Whistleblower Case Whistleblower Reveals Massive Kickback Scheme A large hospice chain recently settled a whistleblower (also known as a “qui tam”) case alleging large scale violations of the False Claims Act (FCA). The FCA allows private citizens to initiate whistleblower or qui tam […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Role of Whistleblowers in Healthcare How Whistleblowers can Reform the Healthcare Industry Whistleblowers have long been looked to by the U.S. government to help uncover wrongdoing and work with government agents to ensure that inside information about systematic fraud is revealed. The False Claims Act, which empowers […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New Developments in False Claims Act Cases As the end of a Supreme Court session rolls around, attorneys tend to take a moment to recoup, gather the decisions, and take a look at what new features have been added to the landscape of the law. This has been […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER SEC Whistleblower Program Awards The Securities and Exchange commission has just doled out it’s second-largest award ever, a whopping $17 million, to a Wall Street employee who provided insider information that helped advance an SEC investigation. Due to the nature of the investigation and the anonymity of the […]

Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 This newly signed law strengthens the protections for whistleblowers who report illegal practices to the government, particularly with regards to trade secrets. In the past, employees who signed “gag orders” or non-disclosure agreements were hampered in their ability to report malfeasance, particularly in the […]

Congress Looks at Reforming the False Claims Act The False Claims Act was originally created during the Civil War to allow ordinary citizens to sue fraudulent companies on behalf of the government. Companies that intentionally sold low-quality goods to the Union Army could be brought to task by civilians who […]

What Protections are guaranteed to Whistleblowers? A whistleblower is an employee who reports fraud executed by his or her company to the federal authorities or the authorities in California. To constitute a qui tam case, the company has to misappropriate the funds received by the government and the whistleblower has […]

Hospital in California Allegedly Involved in a Healthcare Fraud Including Kickbacks, Justice Claims $600 Million in Return ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In California, the Pacific Hospital is involved in a healthcare fraud case with an alleged $600 million in falsified billing in an eight-year period. The scheme was allegedly created by the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The IRS Whistleblower Reward Increased in Fiscal 2016 The IRS announced that rewards paid to whistleblowers from October 1st, 2015 to September 30, 2016 will have a 6.8 percent deduction. There is a similar deduction from the award every year, typically taken to pay outstanding government debts, and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In a False Claim Act Suit even the Chief Executive Officer is targeted In a False Claim Act suit, a whistleblower reports all fraud in his knowledge executed by government contractors to the federals. But the Department of Justice (DOJ) represented by a Deputy Attorney General, Sally Quillan […]