Deborah Duffy

NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 23, 2022 – Lawdragon has selected five Phillips & Cohen partners to its 2022 list of “500 Leading Lawyers in America” for their work representing whistleblowers. The magazine...

With the Biden administration making repeated commitments to fight bribery and corruption and a jump in whistleblower submissions to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, signs are promising for aggressive...

In Compliance Week, Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy, a former Chief of the SEC Office of the Whistleblower, applauds the SEC’s proposal to fix certain changes that were made to whistleblower...

Sean McKessy, the former Chief of the SEC Office of the Whistleblower and partner at Phillips & Cohen, recently contributed to a Washington Post story related to the SEC investigating Apple for its...

WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 4, 2022 – The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent $37 million whistleblower award was issued to two individuals who filed a joint whistleblower submission to the SEC...

What is the Puerto Rico whistleblower law (The False Claims to Government of Puerto Rico Programs, Contracts, and Services Act)? The Puerto Rico whistleblower law, called the False Claims to Government...

Because some companies fail to disclose cybersecurity incidents as required or violate other Securities and Exchange Commission cybersecurity-related rules, whistleblowers with information about disclosure...

“The Hard Sell – Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup,” a new, critically acclaimed book by Evan Hughes, tells the story of the rise of pharma company Insys through illegal kickbacks to doctors...

Sutter Health, northern California’s largest hospital system, is paying $90 million to settle a whistleblower’s qui tam lawsuit that alleged Sutter engaged in Medicare Advantage fraud to inflate its...

LOS ANGELES, JULY 19, 2021 — Prime Healthcare, its founder and CEO, Dr. Prem Reddy, and a California cardiologist have agreed to pay a total of $37.5 million to the federal government and the state of...