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Alere Employee Amanda Wu Awarded $5.6 Million in FCA Whistleblower Claim
Amanda Wu was a senior quality control analyst at Alere Inc, a medical supply company, prior to filing a qui tam FCA lawsuit against her employer in 2011. In March 2018, Wu was awarded $5.8 million as a reward for her efforts in bringing to light Alere’s fraudulent...
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The Lesson Learned From the Wells Fargo Whistleblowers
Stories of corporate wrongdoing often come and go from the headlines, but the revelations of the ongoing investigations into fraudulent practices at Wells Fargo bank have earned the continuing ire of Congress and the American public for its shameless actions in...
Reporting Upcode Related Medicare Fraud
“Upcoding” may sound like a relatively innocuous phrase, and may even sound like a positive thing (who doesn’t want to be “upgraded”?), but Medicare upcoding is a serious and widespread fraudulent offense that costs the federal government billions of dollar a year,...
SEC Hits $100 Million Milestone with $22 Million Award to Monsanto Whistleblower
In late August, the SEC continued doing its part to make 2016 a banner year for whistleblower rewards by making the second-largest whistleblower reward ever under its program, and pushing the total rewards paid under the six-year old program over $100 million. The SEC...
SEC Cracks Down on Companies for Anti-Whistleblowing Policies
In 2010, the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act created a slew of new whistleblowing laws making it easier for whistleblowers to provide information to the federal government in return for hefty whistleblowing rewards and giving the government a powerful new tool in...
Supreme Court to Rule On Confidentiality in FCA Cases
The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in State Farm v. United States, a decade-old False Claims Act (FCA) case relating to alleged fraud carried out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The court’s decision should bring clarity to the question...
How to Report Medicare Fraud Anonymously
Medicare fraud costs US taxpayers approximately $60 billion a year in the form of abuse, fraud, and waste. That’s money that goes to unethical and dishonest medical care providers and comes straight out of the pockets of taxpayers’ hard-earned paychecks. Furthemore,...