December 07, 2015
Kickback scheme broken up as part of government’s ‘Operation Spinal Cap’
Illegal kickbacks to doctors seem to be fueling an explosive growth in worker’s compensation claims by hospitals. Last week the US Department of Justice announced five individuals including a former...
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December 04, 2015
Whistleblowers and False Claims Act cases helped DOJ recover $3.5 billion last year
Whistleblowers helped the federal government recover more than $3.5 billion from civil cases involving fraud and false claims in fiscal year 2015. Qui tam cases filed under the False Claims Act proved...
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December 02, 2015
SEC is ramping up its investigation of pre-IPO trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission is starting to take a closer look at rapidly growing private companies and the brokerage firms who help them trade their private stock almost entirely away from the...
CFTC Inspector General will review agency’s whistleblower program
An internal audit into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower program will be restarted after it took a seat to other priorities last year, according to a report from the agency’s...