Phillips & Cohen

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...

The False Claims Act, along with its “qui tam” whistleblower provision, has emerged as the government’s best tool to combat fraud committed by for-profit colleges. The law has helped recover millions...

It’s a choice nobody should ever have to make: break the law or lose your job. But that’s exactly the choice that companies like Wells Fargo force on their employees when they set unrealistic sales...

Pharmaceutical companies defrauding the government by manufacturing adulterated pharmaceuticals have often gone to great lengths to thwart FDA inspections of their sites. But Japanese drug maker Nippon...

A federal appeals court last week issued a ruling that will make it easier for whistleblowers to hold companies accountable for violations of customs laws. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that...

Tenet Healthcare’s recent settlement was the latest of several instances in which it has paid millions to settle a lawsuit for defrauding government healthcare programs. The Dallas-based hospital chain...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a rule that will go a long way toward holding long-term care facilities accountable for substandard care of vulnerable patients. The new...