December 02, 2015
SEC is ramping up its investigation of pre-IPO trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission is starting to take a closer look at rapidly growing private companies and the brokerage firms who help them trade their private stock almost entirely away from the...
December 02, 2015
CFTC Inspector General will review agency’s whistleblower program
An internal audit into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower program will be restarted after it took a seat to other priorities last year, according to a report from the agency’s...
November 30, 2015
Doctors’ deals with surgical monitoring firms under scrutiny
Business arrangements between neuromonitoring companies and surgeons are raising concerns because of the impact those deals have on healthcare bills, according to a report from the Austin American-Statesman....
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November 24, 2015
Whistleblower lawsuit alleges another contractor is overcharging the US Navy
Still reeling from a massive bribery scandal that cost the government tens of millions of dollars, the US Navy is facing a new lawsuit that once again calls their oversight of contractors into question....
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November 23, 2015
HCA pays $2 million in Medicare fraud settlement
HCA has reached a settlement in yet another Medicare fraud billing case brought by whistleblowers. The Justice Department, along with the state of Florida, announced last week that HCA Holdings Inc. will...
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November 20, 2015
Whistleblower Law Insights Weekly Report: 11/20/2015
The SEC released its annual report on its Whistleblower Award Program, which showed whistleblower tips continued to increase in 2015. There were nearly 4,000 tips from 61 different countries in 2015, leading...
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November 20, 2015
Wisconsin’s latest False Claims Act settlement likely to be one of the last
The Department of Justice and the Wisconsin Attorney General announced Wednesday that they reached an agreement to settle three separate False Claims Act lawsuits against Deaconess Home Health for $3.7...
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November 19, 2015
Climate change research is a disclosure issue for energy companies
Members of Congress and prosecutors have been raising the question of whether energy companies misled the public and their investors about the risks of climate change. Last month, House Democrats Ted Lieu...
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November 19, 2015
Sen. Grassley Receives Award For Defending Whistleblowers
The Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund awarded Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) the “Honest Abe Integrity in Government” award this week for his work defending whistleblowers and taxpayer funds....
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November 18, 2015
Arbitration clauses in employment contracts can hurt whistleblowers, others
A series of New York Times articles earlier this month brought increased public attention to a phenomenon that class action lawyers have been observing closely for many years and that is a concern for...
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