Red State, Blue State – Construction Whistleblowers Can Rejoice
While millions of Americans were glued to their televisions last night waiting to see if Hillary or Donald Trump won the presidential election, there were over $200 billion of transportation...
View ArticleBrian Mahany Discusses Election And What It Means to Whistleblowers
No sooner were the election results tabulated when we received calls from two whistleblower clients, both anxious about how a Trump presidency effects their case and whistleblowers generally. Both have...
View ArticleCustoms Duties and Tariffs Whistleblower Claims to Soar under Trump
The jury is out on President -elect Trump. As I write this, the whistleblower bar is in turmoil. Will Trump support big pharma’s efforts to gut the False Claims Act? Will he repeal Dodd Frank (the law...
View ArticleTesco Bank Cyberhacking State Sponsored? FIRREA Post
Tesco Bank is a well known UK bank. Created with the help of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Tesco today enjoys 7 million customer accounts. Confidence in the bank was badly shaken this week when the bank...
View ArticleLawyer, Flop House Operators Charged with Medicaid Fraud
Don’t think that people charged with Medicaid fraud only wear white lab coats. Home health aides, billing specialists, pharmacies, hospitals, third party billing companies, patient recruiters and yes,...
View ArticleDraining the Swamp – Big Biz and Lobbyists (Whistleblower Post)
We are currently locked into a huge battle with Uber. David versus Goliath. Underpaid Uber drivers against a company worth $66 billion dollars. Despite its huge size, Uber wants to be even bigger and...
View ArticleLincoln Financial Unit Fined for Cybersecurity Breach
A Lincoln Financial Group subsidiary was fined $650,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for a 2012 cybersecurity breach that allowed hackers to penetrate a cloud based server and...
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Accounting Today
In the Blogs: The Season Approaches by Jeff Stimpson | Link to original source (119K) Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week. Like it is TaxMama: Following “a total...
View ArticleDr Death Declares His Innocence… from Prison! (Farid Fata MD)
Nothing surprises us anymore. The biggest threat to this country and we taxpayers isn’t ISIS, it isn’t terrorism, it isn’t even politicians. It is fraud. It’s occurring at record levels and much of it...
View ArticleOppenheimer & Co. Hit with $3.4 Million Penalty
Money laundering concerns, litigation, unreported customer complaints… it sounds like something from the movie Wolf of Wall Street and the infamous Stratton Oakmont brokerage firm. Sadly, these are...
View ArticleMedicare Fraud to Murder? Man who Owed Money Murdered
Readers of this blog know that we have long claimed that Medicare fraud is not a victimless crime. Often patients are harmed, receive substandard care or receive treatments and drugs they do not need...
View ArticleWhistleblower: United Airlines Does Shoddy Maintenance Work
Last year, a former aviation maintenance technician for United Airlines filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the company and accused the airline of shoddy aircraft maintenance. Last week a...
View ArticlePharmacist Guilty in Scheme Involving Counterfeit Drugs
Walter Beich, a 63-year-old pharmacist from Illinois, pled guilty to a Medicaid and Medicare fraud scheme involving filling prescriptions with counterfeit drugs. According to court records, Beich pled...
View Article$85 Million Wasted on “Empty Shells”? Government Contractor Fraud Post
Recently I spoke with an American diplomat in Pakistan. He said much of our government spending there was being lost to fraud. When I asked about Afghanistan, he simply shook his head in dismay. We...
View ArticleWhistleblowers Opportunity! Samsung Influence Peddling Scandal
Earlier this week there was a small story buried deep inside the Wall Street Journal indicating that South Korean prosecutors had raided Samsung’s headquarters in the city of Jeonju. There has been no...
View ArticleMany Bankers Eligible for Overtime Pay (FLSA Post)
There have been several large overtime pay collective action cases in recent years involving bankers. Ever since Wells Fargo management decided to fire 5,500 bankers who were allegedly involved in the...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Huge Win in Allied Home Mortgage Fraud Case
Yesterday a Houston jury awarded the government approximately $90 million in a case originally filed by us against Allied Home Mortgage. This is only the second major lender to go to trial on a False...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Win for Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers often have a tough time taking on their employer. Even those that take on a former employer can still face an uphill battle. It is often a true David versus Goliath fight, one in which a...
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Whistleblower News Review
Whistleblower Didn’t Live to See Landmark Allied Mortgage Verdict, Taxpayers Recover $92 Million by ML McLaren | Link to original source (117K) In May, 2011, Peter Belli filed a complaint in Boston....
View ArticleBig Whistleblower Retaliation Win – Mantech International
Whistleblower retaliation is against the law. It’s already difficult for an employee to stand up and report fraud taking place within the work place. Our whistleblower clients tell us that they were...
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