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The Securities and Exchange Commission has established a fund of over $450 million to pay whistleblowers whose information leads to the successful penalization or conviction of companies or individuals...

Five oil and gas service companies and subsidiaries and a global freight forwarding company have agreed to settlement penalties totaling $236 million. These payments will resolve alleged violations of...

The first False Claims Act suit alleging violations of the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) has settled for $1 million. The FCA whistleblower suit alleged that Rocky Mountain Instrument...

Louis Berger Group Inc., a New Jersey engineering consulting firm, will pay $69.3 million to resolve criminal and civil probes related to overbilling for reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan...

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been dismissed as a lackadaisical regulator in the past, but it’s getting more aggressive. Although the CFTC is smaller than the Securities &...

Although the Medicare claims database is currently regarded as a “gold mine” for medical fraud investigators, most of the data remains unavailable to the public. The database contains electronic records...

Reporting and returning overpayments from government health care programs will be the most important Medicaid program integrity issue in 2011, according to New York State Medicaid Inspector General Jim...

The state of Kentucky has entered into a 3-year contract with Ingenix, a company that will use algorithms and other mathematical formulas to detect fraud and abuse in medical claims from Kentucky Medicaid...

Companies are finally starting to use compensation as a reward for compliance – rather than as a reward for improving the bottom line at any cost. BP just announced that it will base fourth quarter bonuses...

A new report from the Dept. of Health & Human Service’s Inspector General says that forty-four percent of medical schools are providing instruction to students on Medicare and Medicaid fraud...