$3 Billion in False Claims Act Recoveries “Isn’t Enough”? We Agree!
Vinson & Elkins is one of the largest law firms in the nation. It didn’t grow so big and powerful representing whistleblowers in False Claims Act lawsuits, however. It makes its money representing...
View ArticleCharitable Donation or Kickback? Medicare Fraud Post
A former vice president of Accredo Health Group has sued Accredo and its affiliates claiming they committed Medicare fraud by engaging in a kickback scheme with certain charities that support...
View ArticleDoc Guilty in Medicare Fraud Lab Referral Scheme
Mention “Medicare fraud” and everyone forms a different mental picture. Some folks think about patients abusing the national healthcare program to buy unnecessary pain medications. Others think of...
View ArticleBribery & Corruption = FCPA Whistleblower Awards
Public bribery is an every day event in much of the world. Read the New York Post or Chicago Sun Times and it looks like a pretty common event in certain U.S. cities too. American companies and certain...
View ArticleStartling New Medicaid Fraud Report – Medical Transportation
Medicare’s Inspector General released a startling report claiming that New Jersey did a horrible job of overseeing its Medicaid nonemergency medical transportation program. As a result, the feds...
View ArticleLatin American Corruption = More Whistleblower Awards (FCPA Post)
jpInvestment dollars continue to pour into Latin America. In terms of political stability, Central and South America is a mixed bag. Even with countries and regimes considered stable, however,...
View ArticleThink You Don’t Need a Lawyer for SEC Whistleblower Case?
Think you don’t need a lawyer to file an SEC whistleblower case? Think again. The SEC has released new figures from its nascent whistleblower program and the results are disappointing but improving....
View ArticleNontraded REITs 2.0 (“Nontraded Preferred Shares”) – A Bad Idea
Earlier today the widely respected securities industry trade publication, InvestmentNews, published a story titled “REIT with a twist — and a high commission — is new darling of independent...
View ArticleUber Drivers Claim They Are Not Independent Contractors… in the UK
Our lawsuits against Uber have generated national press. Just about every major media outlet in the United States has covered the battle between corporate goliath Uber (market capitalization $62...
View ArticleBristol Myers pays $30m to Settle Insurance Fraud Claim
Expensive golf outings, Lakers basketball camp for kids, concerts, Broadway shows and cold, hard cash. These are some of the things that drug giant Bristol Myers used to lure doctors into prescribing...
View ArticleMedicaid Fraud CEO Spends $510,000 Taxpayer Money on Psychic
Usually when we write a Medicaid fraud story we report how the money from taxpayers stolen from taxpayers was used to support the fraudsters lavish lifestyle. Beaches houses, private jet charters,...
View ArticleHello Beautiful, You Are Under Arrest – Medicaid Fraudster Arrested
We rarely write back to back stories on Medicaid fraud. Sometimes the stories are just so colorful and outrageous that they need to be told. Earlier today we wrote about Medicaid fraudster Erv Brinker...
View ArticleLet the Sun Shine! Report says that Pharma Paid Billions to Docs
Have you ever heard of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act? Most people haven’t. It was part of the comprehensive “Obamacare” healthcare reforms. Under the Act, pharmaceutical companies drugs and...
View ArticleLance Armstrong – Doper, Dealer, Liar? (Whistleblower Post)
The whistleblower case against Lance Armstrong filed by his former racing partner, Floyd Landis, is really heating up. Armstrong didn’t admit to doping while racing for America’s U.S. Postal Service...
View ArticleWhistleblower Suit Accuses Frontier of $42 Million Fraud
Frontier Communications has grown from a sleepy rural telecommunications carrier to the 4th largest provider of digital subscriber services. Now offering traditional phone service, Internet and digital...
View ArticleWhistleblower Helps Feds Nab Medicare Fraud Suspect
Do you remember the game Monopoly? In the original edition there are “Chance” cards, some of which tell the player to “Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200.” Diana Jocelyn Gumila is...
View ArticleUS Contractors Tagged for Iraq, Afghanistan Reconstruction Fraud
The United States spends billions of dollars in the Middle East. While much of the money is spent on military spending, billions are also spent on reconstruction efforts. Much of that money has flowed...
View ArticleBREAKING: Hospital Faces FLSA Wage Suit for Docking Nurses Pay
Anyone who has worked in a busy hospital knows just how hectic things can get. As I write this post at 1:15 in the afternoon on a Saturday, my good friend (an anesthesiologist) is still at work at a...
View ArticleOpen Medicare Fraud Investigation: Dr Alberto Manahan
As a leading national whistleblower firm, we receive many tips. In fact, we receive tips everyday. Most are from “insiders” – billing clerks, nurses, therapists and former employees. Those folks have...
View ArticleNew Medicare Fraud Investigation – Reziuddin Siddique
Not a week goes by that we don’t receive several whistleblower tips. If we think we can help the whistleblower stop the fraud and earn an award, we try to make a case. Sometimes that becomes difficult,...
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