Whistleblower Law Insights

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...

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced that the Harris County Hospital District will pay $15,449,126 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting reimbursement...

Nearly half of the payments Medicare made for Part B mental health services in 2003 didn’t meet Medicare requirements, the Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services has found. As...

The Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD) has agreed to relinquish over $13.6 million in claims for federal funds and to pay the United States $66,000 to resolve fraud allegations about the school...