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The Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act
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...
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Pharmaceutical Kickbacks and FCA Whistleblower Awards
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...
How is Whistleblower Compensation Determined in a Qui Tam FCA Claim?
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...
CFTC Reported to Be Making Largest Whistleblower Reward Ever: $30 Million
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...
Supreme Court Rules that Whistleblowers Who Do Not Go to SEC Can Be Fired
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...
Do I Need to Tell My Employer if I’m Pursuing a Whistleblower Complaint?
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...
Do I Have to Go to Court to Win a Whistleblower Reward?
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,...