Pharmacist Guilty in Scheme Involving Counterfeit Drugs
Walter Beich, a 63-year-old pharmacist from Illinois, pled guilty to a Medicaid and Medicare fraud scheme involving filling prescriptions with counterfeit drugs. According to court records, Beich pled...
View Article$85 Million Wasted on “Empty Shells”? Government Contractor Fraud Post
Recently I spoke with an American diplomat in Pakistan. He said much of our government spending there was being lost to fraud. When I asked about Afghanistan, he simply shook his head in dismay. We...
View ArticleWhistleblowers Opportunity! Samsung Influence Peddling Scandal
Earlier this week there was a small story buried deep inside the Wall Street Journal indicating that South Korean prosecutors had raided Samsung’s headquarters in the city of Jeonju. There has been no...
View ArticleMany Bankers Eligible for Overtime Pay (FLSA Post)
There have been several large overtime pay collective action cases in recent years involving bankers. Ever since Wells Fargo management decided to fire 5,500 bankers who were allegedly involved in the...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Huge Win in Allied Home Mortgage Fraud Case
Yesterday a Houston jury awarded the government approximately $90 million in a case originally filed by us against Allied Home Mortgage. This is only the second major lender to go to trial on a False...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Win for Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers often have a tough time taking on their employer. Even those that take on a former employer can still face an uphill battle. It is often a true David versus Goliath fight, one in which a...
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Whistleblower News Review
Whistleblower Didn’t Live to See Landmark Allied Mortgage Verdict, Taxpayers Recover $92 Million by ML McLaren | Link to original source (117K) In May, 2011, Peter Belli filed a complaint in Boston....
View ArticleBig Whistleblower Retaliation Win – Mantech International
Whistleblower retaliation is against the law. It’s already difficult for an employee to stand up and report fraud taking place within the work place. Our whistleblower clients tell us that they were...
View ArticleFCPA, Foreign Bribery and Natural Resources – Rio Tinto
Many of the world’s natural resources are found in third world and developing countries. While the United States is blessed with oil, natural gas, uranium and other minerals, much of what comes out of...
View ArticleBreaking News SCOTUS Won’t Toss Whistleblower Suit for Seal Violation
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court minutes ago refused to dismiss a whistleblower suit filed under the False Claims Act despite an apparent intentional seal breach by the whistleblower’s lawyer. Instead,...
View ArticleGeorgia Man Guilty of Medicaid Fraud Conspiracy
A trial court jury in Richmond County convicted Carl Wardlaw of conspiracy to commit Medicaid fraud. Immediately after the trial, Wardlaw was sentenced to 5 years in prison, the maximum under state...
View ArticleMore Details on Allied Home Mortgage and Jim Hodge Emerge
With over 2000 branches and thousands of employees, Allied Home Mortgage was a big and powerful lender. The company may be gone but there are still thousands of former branch managers, underwriters,...
View ArticleAllied and Jim Hodge… What Next?
The trial is over. On November 29th, a federal trial jury in Houston found in favor of the government on all counts. The jury awarded the government $7,370,132 against Allied CEO Jim Hodge and a...
View ArticleFrench Whistleblowers Dissatisfied? File in the US! (Sapin II / FCPA)
France claims it waging war on corporate fraud. On November 16th, the country adopted the Law on Transparency, the Fight Against Corruption and Modernization of Economic Life (Sapin II). Some see the...
View ArticleWells Fargo Hits a New Low (Bank Whistleblower Post)
Can Wells Fargo’s corporate ethics sink any lower? Apparently, the answer is yes. Much lower. There just seems to be no bottom. If you think the most recent scandal involving over up to 2 million phony...
View ArticleFla Hospital Pays $12mm in False Claims Act Whistleblower Case
The South Miami Hospital has agreed to pay approximately $12 million to settle charges that it violated the federal False Claims Act. Prosecutors say the nonprofit hospital submitted claims to Medicare...
View ArticleRadiology Centers & Illegal Practices – Whistleblower Award Post
In recent years we have encountered many stand alone radiology centers and clinics. Often these facilities are not connected with a healthcare group or hospital. Some are not even owned by a doctor....
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Think Glink
Allied Home Mortgage, Whistleblowers and the Future of the Mortgage Industry by Emily Pfund | Link to original source (104K) Last week, a federal jury in Texas imposed a nearly $93 million penalty...
View ArticleIs Outsourcing a Dirty Word for Mortgage Underwriters?
Is outsourcing in the mortgage industry a dirty word? A Houston jury thought so in our Allied Home Mortgage case. Although we and federal prosecutors accused Allied and its former CEO Jim Hodge of many...
View ArticleNuclear Reactors, Foreign Steel and Whistleblowers
U.S. regulations require projects built with federal dollars to be built with American made steel. Every piece of steel made in the U.S. or imported here comes with a certification. Not only does that...
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