Whistleblower Law Insights

The federal government announced that it has reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Maximus Inc. that requires the company to pay $30.5 million. Maximus has also agreed to enter into a corporate...

A California state appeals court has reinstated a whistleblower suit that claimed Hewlett-Packard sold defective medical monitoring devices through its spin-off company, Agilent Technologies. A trial court...

Akal Security Inc. will pay the United States $18 million to resolve allegations that it violated the terms of its contract to provide trained civilian guards at eight U.S. Army bases. Some of the guards...

In a suit that grew out of a whistleblower complaint, Orphan Medical Inc. pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that it illegally promoted Xyrem, commonly known as a “date rape” drug....

Moritz Embroidery Works has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a False Claims Act suit that alleged violations of the Buy American Act. The company won a contract to supply the Dept. of Defense with U.S....

Mellon Bank has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle claims brought under the False Claims Act that it destroyed thousands of tax returns and tax payment checks to avoid penalties for failing to meet...

The University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest vocational school chain, asked a federal judge in Sacramento, California, to dismiss a suit brought against it under the qui tam provisions of the...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has joined a whistleblower lawsuit that charges that ATK Thiokol Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems, Inc., knowingly sold the U.S. military flares that could...

EGL, Inc. of Houston, Texas, has paid the United States $300,000 to settle allegations that the company’s local agent in Kuwait overcharged the military for rental charges on shipping containers to Iraq....

Alan Grayson, the attorney of record for plaintiffs who accuse KBR of defrauding the government in Iraq War contracts, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Terrorism and Homeland...