Whistleblower Law Insights

While the director of the IRS Whistleblower Office has given his program good reviews in the latest annual report about the IRS whistleblower program, the reality isn’t so positive. In the FY2016 annual...

Medical device company Biomet will once again pay tens of millions of dollars to settle violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In 2012, Biomet agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle allegations...

A whistleblower helped uncover a scheme by a Missouri-based government contractor where the company not only allegedly overcharged the government for its products, but also allegedly violated country of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission took significant actions in FY2016 that made it a “historic” year for the SEC whistleblower program, according to a new report from the agency. The SEC paid out...

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...