Month: November 2008

Bayer HealthCare LLC has agreed to pay the United States $97.5 million to resolve allegations that the company paid kickbacks to diabetic suppliers and caused those suppliers to submit false claims to...

RBC Mortgage Company (RBC) will pay the federal government more than $10.71 million to resolve a False Claims Act suit that alleged the company gave the U.S. government false information about borrowers...

St. Vincent Health System Inc. of Erie, Pennsylvania, will pay $1.9 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging overcharging of Medicare. The overcharges allegedly resulted...

Sen. Charles Grassley, one of the authors of the 1986 amendments that strengthened the False Claims Act, is concerned that money authorized through the recently approved $700 billion bailout not be lost...

The United States Dept. of Justice announced that it has secured $1.34 billion in settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act in fiscal year 2008. This brings the total recoveries to more than...

Pratt & Whitney and PCC Airfoils, a division of Precision Castparts, have agreed to pay $52 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that the companies knowingly sold defective turbine blade...

The District of Columbia has filed a $105 million lawsuit against the Bank of America for its role in a a tax scam perpetrated by one of the District’s employees. The suit was brought under the District’s...

Walnut Hill Care Center of New Brtiain, Connecticut, will pay the U.S. government $222,419 to resolve charges it hired a nurse without checking to see her license had been revoked, the New Britain Herald...

Kendall Dye, an engineer with ATK Thiokol, was astonished when he discovered that the company was knowingly supplying dangerously unsafe flares to the United States military, the New York Times reported...

EGL Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $750,000 to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to employees of KBR, the Justice Department announced....