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FCA Litigation May Be New Front in Opioid Crisis
Anyone who has been paying attention to the news in recent years understands that the greatest drug epidemic of our time is not cocaine, heroin, or meth, but rather the opioids that are legally manufactured and prescribed throughout the country. Certainly, there are...
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Ignored Wells Fargo Complaints Highlight Need for Whistleblowing Strategy
By now, you have no doubt heard about the years of widespread fraudulent activities at Wells Fargo which led to the bank having to pay hundreds of millions in settlements and fines and the resignation of the bank’s CEO. Over 5,300 employees of the bank participated in...
IRS Accepts Audit Results for Improved Whistleblower Award Processing
The IRS has been paying awards to whistleblowers who provide information about tax code violations for nearly 150 years, but it is only in the past few decades that the IRS has become more systematic and regimented about providing such awards. In the past five years,...
One of Nation’s Biggest Nursing Home Care Providers to Pay $145 Million in FCA Settlement
Extended nursing home care has become huge business in the recent decades due to people living longer and federal funding for care, and Life Care Centers of America (Life Care) has been there nearly from the start in cashing in on the nursing home boom. Founded in...
Executive Who Rejected $8.25m SEC Award Shows Whistleblowing About More than Money
In August 2016, the SEC announced that it would be awarding a $16.5 million whistleblower award in connection with a major enforcement action, one of numerous awards made by the SEC this summer that pushed the SEC whistleblower program over $100 million in its six...
Arizona Man Receives $1.17 Million for Exposing Medicare Fraud
Greg Kuzma was acting as a chief financial officer for a northern Arizona hospital when, in 2011, he reportedly informed the CEO of Yavapia Regional Medical Center - a different hospital from the one that Kuzma worked at - that he had noticed that Yavapai had been...
Georgia Whistleblower to Receive $12 Million in Tenet False Claims Act Settlement
The Attorney General of Georgia announced in early October that it had resolved criminal and civil charges against Tenet Healthcare Inc. based on False Claims Act and Medicare fraud allegations, resulting in a payment of more than $513 million in fines by the...