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The Department of Justice has recently announced its year end statistics for False Claims Act cases and the results are exciting! Highlights include: -Nearly three billion dollars recovered (more than [...]
Note: This was scheduled to post on Wednesday, it didn’t due to technical difficulties, and now the shutdown is over! But with yet another potential shutdown on the horizon, I’m [...]
Puerto Rico will now have an additional weapon in its arsenal to combat hurricane contractors who defraud the island. Recently, Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló signed House Bill 1627, [...]
Settles allegations of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute The United States Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan has announced a settlement with William Beaumont Hospital [...]
National Whistleblower Appreciation Day is an annual recognition of whistleblowers whose actions have protected the American people from fraud or malfeasance. In 2018, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution [...]
Whistleblowers are vital to protecting the integrity of the Medicaid program According to a recent report by HHS-OIG, insurers who manage Medicaid insurance plans are ineffective when it comes to [...]
Lance Armstrong has settled allegations by the federal government that he defrauded the U.S. Postal Service when they cheated by taking performance enhancing drugs while riding under the U.S.P.S. banner. Armstrong's former [...]
“And I stood arrow straight Unencumbered by the weight Of all these hustlers and their schemes” Today, out of the blue (pun intended), I received a large piece of lapis [...]
Nearly $3.5 billion in proceeds that was brought in last year from False Claims Act cases filed by whistleblowers. Some of the interesting stats are below: 675 Qui Tam Cases [...]
The author of the 1986 amendments to the False Claims Act, Senator Charles Grassley, addressed the Senate on new problems facing the False Claims Act. His full speech can be [...]
