July 17, 2015
Third largest SEC whistleblower award goes to Phillips & Cohen client
WASHINGTON, DC, July 17, 2015 – A whistleblower represented by Phillips & Cohen LLP has received what is currently the Securities and Exchange Commission’s third largest whistleblower reward...
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June 29, 2015
Fixing Health Care – Response by Whistleblower Attorney to New Yorker Article
Letter to the editor by Phillips & Cohen whistleblower attorney Peter Budetti, formerly a deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in response to “Overkill,”...
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June 24, 2015
“Bloomberg BNA Q&A with Peter Budetti, Of Counsel to Phillips & Cohen and Former CMS Deputy Administrator.”
Peter Budetti in Bloomberg BNA, 6/24/15. “However, public sector resources are never going to be enough [to fight fraud against the government]. The brilliance of the Lincoln Law that set up the FCA...
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June 16, 2015
Whistleblower attorney Erika Kelton named to national ‘Attorneys Who Matter’ list
WASHINGTON, DC, June 16, 2015 – Whistleblower attorney Erika Kelton, a partner at Phillips & Cohen LLP, has been recognized as one of the “Attorneys Who Matter” for 2015 by the Ethisphere...
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June 05, 2015
Food services contractor Chartwells pays $19.4M to settle whistleblower case involving DC school meal programs
WASHINGTON, DC, June 5, 2015 – Chartwells has settled a whistleblower lawsuit, brought by Phillips & Cohen, involving management of school meal programs in Washington, DC, by paying the District...
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May 29, 2015
CEOs would pay attention to bonus clawbacks – Letter to the Editor
The Financial Times published the following letter to the editor from Erika Kelton, Phillips & Cohen partner, about the need for bonus clawbacks to help establish compliant corporate cultures. CEOs...
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May 27, 2015
“Whistleblowers dodge disaster in Supreme Court’s KBR decision.”
Colette Matzzie in Reuters, 5/27/15. That holding, said whistleblower lawyer Colette Matzzie of Phillips & Cohen, is a “tremendous victory.” It’s quite common in FCA litigation, she said, for...
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“5 Things GCs Need to Know About Whistleblowers.”
Colette Matzzie in Law360.com, 5/27/15. “We’ve found that employees are going to report internally anyway, but they have the additional incentive now because of the way the SEC reward factors are...
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May 14, 2015
“How do you make millions by doing good? Become a whistleblower.”
Claire Sylvia in The Guardian, 5/14/15. One of these veteran whistleblower law firms is Phillips & Cohen, founded in 1988 by John Phillips . Phillips worked closely with Congress to pass the False...
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May 12, 2015
“Arrest of U.K Trader Puts a Spotlight on Whistle-Blowers.”
Erika Kelton in Institutional Investor, 5/12/15. Anonymity has been central to the successes that have occurred so far, according to Erika Kelton, a partner at Phillips & Cohen in San Francisco and...
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