Month: April 2012

Article by Erika A. Kelton published in Forbes, 4/27/12. The whistleblower world and Wall Street are abuzz with the question of whether the Securities and Exchange Commission inadvertently revealed the...

WASHINGTON, DC – Whistleblowers are an important part of the enforcement effort to uncover and stop Medicaid fraud, Claire M. Sylvia, a whistleblower attorney with Phillips & Cohen LLP, said...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced that Optiver Holding BV, a Dutch company, two U.S. subsidiaries and several officers will pay $14 million to settle allegations of manipulating the...

WASHINGTON, DC – Phillips & Cohen LLP is representing Common Cause in a whistleblower case filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last week that says the American Legislative Exchange...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The whistleblower whose False Claims Act case against a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) settled for about $37 million said he was pleased with the...

In a recent Forbes blog post, Phillips & Cohen attorney Erika Kelton tells of students who did an off-the-cuff cost/benefit analysis of Medicaid fraud and decided it might be a good way to get rich...

Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire has signed a Medicaid fraud false claims act. The act includes a qui tam provision, which will allow private citizens who discover fraud involving the state’s...