Category: Whistleblower

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Reverse Mortgage Lender Settles for $89 Million in Whistleblower Case Recently, a large reverse mortgage lender settled a whistleblower case alleging violations of the False Claims Act and Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA). The lender allegedly sold reverse mortgage loans insured by the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER IRS Whistleblower Reveals Hedge Fund Tax Fraud Massive Tax Fraud and Multiple False Claims Tax fraud ranges from cheating on a 1040 to massive tax avoidance schemes, often offshore, amounting to the tens of millions. One whistleblower (also known as a “relator” under some statutes) has blown the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER San Francisco Prosecutor Awarded $2 Million In Highly-Anticipated Case Whistleblower Case Recently, a San Francisco jury ruled in favor of a San Francisco prosecutor who alleged that she was terminated from her place of work for trying to dig deeper into some suspected fraud and city corruption. In […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Attachments Help Secure Whistleblower Awards Potential Millions in Whistleblower Award The HDL Labs/BlueWave Medicare fraud scam is the biggest clinical lab fraud scam yet in the health care industry. A whistleblower (or “qui tam”) lawsuit brought several years ago by a private individual exposed the fraud. The […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Sonoma County Whistleblower Awarded Damages Sonoma State University Whistleblower Recently, an employee of Sonoma State University made claims that he was harassed by members of the university’s staff for speaking up on a very serious issue: asbestos. When the whistleblower refused to stay quiet about the harm of […]

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tips for Whistleblowers What the SEC Looks For The SEC needs your help in tracking down securities fraud. Whistleblowers bring useful information to the SEC that can lead to investigation and prosecution – and a possible reward for the whistleblower’s help. In January of this […]

IRS Whistleblowing on Abusive Offshore Schemes Awards for Helping the IRS Catch Tax Cheats The highest whistleblower award in US history was paid to an individual with original information of a massive offshore tax fraud. A former employee of the Swiss bank UBS received $104 million for unveiling the bank’s […]

Sleep Clinic Whistleblower Reaps Big Award Medicare Pays Whistleblower Over $500K A former technician at a Bay Area sleep clinic recently received a large award from Medicare for information that her prior employer broke the law. Specifically, the whistleblower’s information to Medicare and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed […]

IRS Whistleblowing Cheating On Taxes Taxes are a chore to most, but to others, it seems like they may be an art, and art of fraud, that is. Records show that more and more companies and individuals are attempting to cheat on tax returns and submitting millions of dollars’ worth […]

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Awards Higher Than Ever IRS Whistleblower Awards We can all agree that an increase in whistleblower awards is good where wrongdoing is exposed and prosecuted. This is especially true in the tax arena; it means that citizens are doing their job and reporting cases—good cases—to […]