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Everything you need to know. Although whistleblowers have several means in place already to report corporate fraud to the federal government, including the False Claims Act (the IRS whistleblower program) and the CFTC and SEC whistleblower programs, a new law is on... read more
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If you work in the pharmaceutical world or the healthcare world, then you know that pharmaceutical companies often employ small armies of marketing representatives with large budgets to get their products on the radars of physicians. While marketing of pharmaceutical... read more
For over 150 years, the False Claims Act (FCA) in its various iterations has empowered ordinary citizens to bring allegations of taxpayer-related fraud to the government’s attention by offering large financial rewards to those who do. By bringing a qui tam lawsuit... read more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has reportedly informed a whistleblower that he will be receiving the largest whistleblower reward ever awarded by the commission: a $30 million payday. Reported by Bloomberg News in February – and confirmed by the... read more
In an important decision that all potential SEC whistleblowers should heed, a unanimous Supreme Court has made it clear that employees who seek to obtain the anti-retaliation protections of the Dodd-Frank Act (which provides for the SEC whistleblower program) must... read more
Bringing a whistleblower complaint can have outstanding benefits for the whistleblower: standing up for justice and fair markets, saving taxpayer dollars, and winning a substantial personal whistleblower award (often 15% to 25% of proceeds collected), chief among... read more
In the movies, a courageous insider that blows the whistle on fraud and other forms of wrongdoing typically has their moment in the spotlight, perhaps in court or in a gaggle of news reporters, in which they triumphantly bring criminal actions out into the open,... read more
