FCPA, Foreign Bribery and Natural Resources – Rio Tinto
Many of the world’s natural resources are found in third world and developing countries. While the United States is blessed with oil, natural gas, uranium and other minerals, much of what comes out of...
View ArticleBreaking News SCOTUS Won’t Toss Whistleblower Suit for Seal Violation
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court minutes ago refused to dismiss a whistleblower suit filed under the False Claims Act despite an apparent intentional seal breach by the whistleblower’s lawyer. Instead,...
View ArticleGeorgia Man Guilty of Medicaid Fraud Conspiracy
A trial court jury in Richmond County convicted Carl Wardlaw of conspiracy to commit Medicaid fraud. Immediately after the trial, Wardlaw was sentenced to 5 years in prison, the maximum under state...
View ArticleMore Details on Allied Home Mortgage and Jim Hodge Emerge
With over 2000 branches and thousands of employees, Allied Home Mortgage was a big and powerful lender. The company may be gone but there are still thousands of former branch managers, underwriters,...
View ArticleAllied and Jim Hodge… What Next?
The trial is over. On November 29th, a federal trial jury in Houston found in favor of the government on all counts. The jury awarded the government $7,370,132 against Allied CEO Jim Hodge and a...
View ArticleFrench Whistleblowers Dissatisfied? File in the US! (Sapin II / FCPA)
France claims it waging war on corporate fraud. On November 16th, the country adopted the Law on Transparency, the Fight Against Corruption and Modernization of Economic Life (Sapin II). Some see the...
View ArticleWells Fargo Hits a New Low (Bank Whistleblower Post)
Can Wells Fargo’s corporate ethics sink any lower? Apparently, the answer is yes. Much lower. There just seems to be no bottom. If you think the most recent scandal involving over up to 2 million phony...
View ArticleFla Hospital Pays $12mm in False Claims Act Whistleblower Case
The South Miami Hospital has agreed to pay approximately $12 million to settle charges that it violated the federal False Claims Act. Prosecutors say the nonprofit hospital submitted claims to Medicare...
View ArticleRadiology Centers & Illegal Practices – Whistleblower Award Post
In recent years we have encountered many stand alone radiology centers and clinics. Often these facilities are not connected with a healthcare group or hospital. Some are not even owned by a doctor....
View ArticleIs Outsourcing a Dirty Word for Mortgage Underwriters?
Is outsourcing in the mortgage industry a dirty word? A Houston jury thought so in our Allied Home Mortgage case. Although we and federal prosecutors accused Allied and its former CEO Jim Hodge of many...
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Allied Home Mortgage, Whistleblowers and the Future of the Mortgage Industry by Emily Pfund | Link to original source (104K) Last week, a federal jury in Texas imposed a nearly $93 million penalty...
View ArticleNuclear Reactors, Foreign Steel and Whistleblowers
U.S. regulations require projects built with federal dollars to be built with American made steel. Every piece of steel made in the U.S. or imported here comes with a certification. Not only does that...
View ArticleCyberhacking Update – IBM Says Banks Won’t Discuss Details
It’s hard to fight an enemy you can’t see. Cyberhacking is often carried out by computer geniuses operating halfway across the world. They operate in the darknet and collaborate in chatrooms. Often...
View ArticleDoes Universal Health Services Kidnap Patients?
Universal Health Services is the largest psychiatric services provider in the nation. Last year the company treated approximately 450,000 patients. With 200 facilities, the company serves patients in...
View ArticleKickbacks, RICO and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Insys Post)
Last week the Justice Department indicted six executives of Insys Therapeutics, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. All are charged with criminal violations of the federal RICO statute (Racketeer...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Medical Biller Gets 9 Years for Medicaid Fraud!
A Greenville, North Carolina medical biller was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to Medicaid fraud and identity theft charges. Donnie Lee Phillips II will be eligible for...
View ArticleINVESTIGATION: Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage, 21st Mortgage
Clayton Homes… by far the biggest player in the mobile home industry. Along with Vanderbilt Mortgage and 21st Mortgage and 25+ other companies, the Clayton Home empire is huge. And it just may be the...
View ArticlePlatinum Partners Hedge Fund Ponzi – Where Are the Banks?
Platinum Partners hedge fund is beginning to look like a Ponzi scheme. A very large Ponzi scheme. The New York Times says it could be one of the largest since Bernie Madoff. As much as $1 billion may...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Medical Biller Gets 9 Years for Medicaid Fraud!
A Greenville, North Carolina medical biller was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to Medicaid fraud and identity theft charges. Donnie Lee Phillips II will be eligible for...
View ArticleFlorida Eye Clinic Accused of Medicare Fraud
Two former billing supervisors have accused the Florida Eye Clinic of a massive Medicare fraud scheme. William Lovell and Rochelle Mendez say the clinic billed Medicare for services never rendered....
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