by admin | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Department of Justice is reporting that a General Electric Co. will pay $6.58 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit stemming from extremely serious allegations by a whistleblower. The whistleblower says that a GE subsidiary made fuel tanks for Navy Hornets...
by admin | Oct 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Maybe he was just one heck of a hard worker? According to an indictment filed against Texas doctor Dennis B. Barson, Jr., M.D., the doctor and his medical clinic administrator, Dario Juarez, fraudulently collected $2.1 million in payments from Medicare – in...
by admin | Oct 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
A growing number of False Claims Act cases are holding companies accountable when they get contracts by fraudulently pretending to be minority-owned or woman-owned. In one recent case, an Alabama company wound up paying the Government $1,150,000 after a whistleblower...
by admin | Oct 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Think Columbus Day presents a big problem in terms of car accidents? Unfortunately, Columbus Day is not just deadly in terms of car accidents – in the year 2009 it was the deadliest holiday weekend of all. Believe it or not, that year more people died on Georgia...
by admin | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Center for Public Integrity is delivering more bad news about the budget cuts to the fraud-fighting arm of Medicare and Medicaid. In my whistleblower law blog entry, Now Here’s A Bad Idea: Government Decreases Funding to Fight Medicare Fraud, I blogged about...
