Month: August 2015

SpecialCare Hospital Management Corp. and three New York hospitals agreed this week to pay a total of more than $8 million to New York and the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit and government...

Peter Budetti in Bloomberg, 8/20/15. “[Medicare fraud] is still an ongoing challenge,” says Peter Budetti, who oversaw fraud investigations at CMS until 2013 and is now an attorney at Phillips &...

Following the Bank of New York Mellon’s settlement with the SEC this week, expect to see more Wall Street banks settle foreign bribery allegations involving the practice of hiring relatives of sovereign...

Erika Kelton in The Wall Street Journal, 8/17/15. Any money that WikiLeaks raises can only go so far. “WikiLeaks can’t protect anyone’s job and there are serious questions as to the legal consequences...

News reports are once again highlighting fraud by Medicare Advantage plans to boost their revenues. The most recent whistleblower case that has been made public involves home health visits. The “qui...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a major step this week with its efforts to clean up municipal bond underwriting with the announcement of a $20 million settlement with brokerage firm Edward...

In a surprising move this week, GlaxoSmithKline rehired Vivian Shi, a former executive suspected of making the fraud and corruption allegations against Glaxo that led to $500 million in fines to China...