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Adventist Health System’s $118 million settlement this week is the latest and largest one involving violations of the physician referral law known as the Stark Act. The settlement covered a qui tam...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission released an order Sept. 17 holding that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are commodities and are subject to regulation under the Commodity Exchange Act and...

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...

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...

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...

Long-time whistleblower champion Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) took to the Senate floor this week to talk about the False Claims Act and the important role that whistleblowers play to stop fraud. He reminds...

Last week, in Schroeder v. United States, the Ninth Circuit joined several other courts in holding that a False Claims Act whistleblower must be dismissed from a suit if he or she is convicted of criminal...

Earlier this month, a panel of three judges in the Fourth Circuit handed down the latest chapter in United States ex rel. Drakeford v. Tuomey Healthcare Sys., Inc., a False Claims Act case based on Stark...