January 17, 2013
Payments to settle fraud charges shouldn’t be tax deductible
Several banks that recently settled cases for mortgage abuses will be able to deduct those settlement payments as “business expenses,” making those settlements less painful for the banks than they...
“Floyd Landis whistleblower suit targets more than Lance Armstrong.”
Peter Chatfield in The Washington Post, 1/17/13. False Claims Act whistleblower suits, which date from the Civil War era, are a mechanism for encouraging someone with information about fraud against the...
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January 11, 2013
Whistleblower attorney Colette Matzzie selected for Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America
WASHINGTON, DC – Colette G. Matzzie, a partner with Phillips & Cohen LLP, was named to Lawdragon’s list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” for 2012, the magazine announced...
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January 03, 2013
FDA’s Campaign to Control the Practice of Medicine – Letter to the Editor
The Wall Street Journal published the following letter to the editor written by Phillips & Cohen partner Erika A. Kelton in response to an op-ed that criticized the prosecution of a doctor who was...
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