Month: November 2016

WASHINGTON, DC, November 29, 2016 – Two Phillips & Cohen LLP whistleblower lawyers, Mary Louise Cohen and Erika Kelton, were selected to the 2017 Super Lawyers List for Washington, DC, by Super...

Sean McKessy in TechCrunch, 11/18/16. “…There’s a temptation here to make yourself look more valuable than you are to attract investors. So I think all that makes Silicon Valley fertile...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, November 17, 2016 – Zwanger-Pesiri Inc., a Long Island radiology company, is paying a total of $10.5 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Phillips & Cohen...

The Securities and Exchange Commission took significant actions in FY2016 that made it a “historic” year for the SEC whistleblower program, according to a new report from the agency. The SEC paid out...

WASHINGTON, DC, November 16, 2016 – Peter Budetti, a former top US government official who is Of Counsel to Phillips & Cohen LLP, recently spoke in Vienna at an event hosted by the Organization...

Sean McKessy in The National Law Journal, 11/16/16. “What will be interesting to see is whether the enforcement staff has the brakes pulled on them a bit,” said Phillips & Cohen partner...

Peter Budetti, a former top US government official who is Of Counsel to Phillips & Cohen LLP, recently spoke in Vienna at an event hosted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe...

Regulators around the world are starting to recognize the value whistleblowers can bring to enforcement measures, offering incentives from protection to financial rewards to those who come forward with...

The year still has two months left to go, but already 2016 has seen more enforcement actions and far more fines collected under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) than in recent years. After bringing...

The Supreme Court heard arguments last week over whether violating the provision of the False Claims Act that requires “qui tam” whistleblower cases not be disclosed to anyone without court approval...