March 31, 2011
Do state false claims acts meet HHS OIG standards?
Under the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act states were given a financial incentive to enact false claims acts that targeted Medicaid fraud. If a state false claims act meets certain requirements, the state is...
Posted In Whistleblower Law Insights
March 15, 2011
IRS pays whistleblower $1.1M reward for exposing Wall Street and Enron tax fraud scheme
WASHINGTON, DC – The Internal Revenue Service has paid a $1.1 million reward to a whistleblower represented by Phillips & Cohen LLP for information that exposed an alleged tax fraud scheme by...
Posted In Phillips & Cohen News
March 08, 2011
Two companies pay for overcharging government for phone systems
Two companies have paid over $16.5 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that they systematically overcharged the US government for desktop telephone services. Avaya Inc. paid over $13 million to...
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Pharma company receives additional fines for myriad violations of law
Forest Pharmaceuticals has been ordered to pay a criminal fine of $150 million and forfeit assets of $14 million, resulting from their guilty plea last year. In November of 2010, the drug company admitted...
Posted In Whistleblower Law Insights