Whistleblower Law Insights

Since Congress created a strong whistleblower program at the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Dodd-Frank Act in July of 2010, tips have been pouring into the SEC in record numbers, according...

NPR reported yesterday morning on the ways the Affordable Care Act helps fight health care fraud. The story noted the difficulty government regulators have in keeping up with the various health care scams...

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday granted the first whistleblower award under the new program created by the Dodd-Frank Act.  The reward totaled $50,000, or thirty percent of the SEC’s...

The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has made its first whistleblower award.  The SEC Whistleblower Office was established in August 2011, pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act. According to the SEC...

The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Attorney General Eric Holder, revealed a new public-private partnership to crack down on health care fraud yesterday.  The...

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner defended his response to concerns about Libor manipulation in 2008 – when he served as president of the New York Federal Reserve – before  Congress...

Eduardo Porter of the New York Times wrote an insightful article examining whether corporate corruption and fraud have increased in recent years. (See “The Spreading Scourge of Corporate Corruption.”)...

Two whistleblowers represented by Phillips & Cohen provided critical evidence that helped launch massive government investigations into Glaxosmithkline’s marketing practices, and resulted in...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced that Optiver Holding BV, a Dutch company, two U.S. subsidiaries and several officers will pay $14 million to settle allegations of manipulating the...

In a recent Forbes blog post, Phillips & Cohen attorney Erika Kelton tells of students who did an off-the-cuff cost/benefit analysis of Medicaid fraud and decided it might be a good way to get rich...