Month: March 2024

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to demonstrate its increased focus on cybersecurity issues with its litigation efforts in a groundbreaking cybersecurity case. Last month the...

Today, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a whistleblower award totaling approximately $1.25 million to a whistleblower who satisfied the CFTC’s whistleblower rules by raising...

Phillips & Cohen partner Jeffrey Dickstein was quoted in the Portland Press Herald about Phillips & Cohen’s whistleblower lawsuit against six healthcare providers that the Department of Justice...

Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton talked to Bloomberg Law’s Ben Penn about the Department of Justice’s new pilot whistleblower awards program and the possibility Foreign Corrupt Practices...

Introduction to DOJ’s New Whistleblower Pilot Program The Department of Justice will begin a new whistleblower pilot program, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced during a speech at the...

DOJ Joins Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Major Health Systems Washington, DC—The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today joined a newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit filed by Phillips & Cohen LLP...

Phillips & Cohen partner Steve Hasegawa spoke to Bloomberg Law about the Planned Parenthood whistleblower Medicaid fraud lawsuit.   The Fifth Circuit could “thread a needle” and determine that...

Statement of Erika Kelton, an international whistleblower attorney and partner with Phillip & Cohen: “Today’s expected announcement that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will further incentivize...

Unprecedented Success in False Claims Act Recoveries in 2023 The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently touted that the agency’s settlements and judgments exceeded $2.68 billion under the False Claims...