Category: Qui Tam

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegations of Six-Year Fraud Against Medicare And Other Government Programs Whistleblower Alleged Illegal Inducements And Unnecessary Inpatient Admissions Former Patient Advocate Blew The Whistle The federal Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b, prohibits offering, soliciting, or receiving any remuneration to induce referrals for medical services or procedures, including […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Fraudulent Postal Service Contracts By Former Employees of Airline Allegations of False Delivery Scans Employees Hid Actual Data From Government Federal government contracts are almost always subject to very specific requirements and regulations. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) contracts out domestic and international delivery services and those […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Leaking Non-Public Information And Insider Trading  Special Access Employees May Not Disclose Non-Public Information CFTC Targets Unauthorized Disclosures As Fraud The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) polices the options and commodities markets in the U.S.   The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), Pub. L. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegations of Staffing With Unqualified Personnel Billing At Higher Rates Alleged As Fraud Qui Tam Cases For Overbilling Contracts with the federal government and the State of California are almost always subject to very specific requirements and regulations.   When a contractor knowingly violates those specifications or guidelines and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Rewards for Blowing Whistle On Commodities Trading Fraud Commodity Futures Trading Commission Issues Whistleblower Alert On Spoofing Spoofing And Other Commodities Trading Fraud The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) saw a 126% increase in whistleblower tips during 2020. The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Use of Substandard Materials Non-Compliant Materials Allegedly Disguised Dangerous Airfields Cited By Government When a government contractor knowingly uses substandard or non-compliant materials or goods in performance of a government contract such conduct may constitute a false claim against the government.  See federal False Claims Act (FCA), 31 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Former Employee Blows Whistle On Telemedicine Fraud  Criminal And Civil Prosecution Of Wrongdoers Defendants Allegedly Submitted $400 Million In False Claims  The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that the owner of a medical device maker has agreed to resolve criminal charges and civil claims arising out of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Protecting The State’s Most Vulnerable Med-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse Unit Strengthened California DOJ:  Operation SAFE (Stop Abuse and Fraud of Elders) Evans Law Firm, Inc. is a plaintiff’s litigation law firm.  We represent individuals here in California who have suffered injury, especially older Californians who have been […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegations of Unlawful Kickbacks Free Trips to Golf Tournaments and the Kentucky Derby Whistleblowers Will Receive Share of Settlement In order to protect all of us from medical services or care procured by health care providers paying kickbacks for referrals, federal law prohibits such conduct.  See Anti-Kickback Statute, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Individual Whistleblowers Essential To Enforcement  $62 Billion Has Been Recovered Through Private Whistleblowers Since 1986  Whistleblower Rewards Average 20% Of Recoveries  The modern-day Federal False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C.§ 3729 et seq., and its qui tam whistleblower provisions (The term for individual whistleblower suits) grew largely out […]