by admin | Jun 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Earlier this month the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it was paying $875,000 to two whistleblowers who had tipped the agency off to fraud. The SEC isn’t saying what publicly-traded company committed the fraud, what the fraud was, or who the...
by admin | Jun 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Let’s say you are going through chemotherapy. You are miserable, losing hair and your last meal by the minute. Could it get worse? Why, yes, it could. How about if you learned that you sat there, receiving chemotherapy, for hours more than were necessary? And...
by admin | Jun 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Even before he got a heart the Tin Man would have been ashamed of this sort of behavior. According to a DOJ press release, King’s Daughters Medical Center to Pay Nearly $41 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Billing for Unnecessary Cardiac Procedures and...
by admin | May 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Let’s say you have a dialysis treatment coming up. You could drive yourself to the clinic. On the other hand, an ambulance company says that it would be glad to give you a ride – but first, it would like to pay you cash of $100 to $400 a month. Say what?...
by admin | May 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
According to the Department of Justice, a Florida doctor was intentionally misdiagnosing patients with serious illnesses, just so he could make money for treating them. Now, according to a DOJ press release, Government Settles False Claims Act Allegations Against...
by admin | May 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
According to a list put together by two of my fellow whistleblower lawyers, Northrop-Grumman has paid more than any other defense contractor to resolve claims that it cheated the Government. In fact, on a list of top 20 largest payments made by defense contractors to...
by admin | Apr 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
As a lawyer who represents qui tam whistleblowers, I did a double take when I saw that a grocery store based in San Antonio, Texas, is going to have to pay the state $12,000,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations. Since the False Claim Act only addresses fraud...
by admin | Apr 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Government has nabbed another company for making false claims in order to get loans from the Program for Small and Disadvantaged Businesses. According to a Department of Justice press release, Okland Construction Co., Inc., of Utah, will pay the Government...
by admin | Feb 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
An Iowa couple may be feeling a bit sheepish now that they have to repay the Government $1,376,670 they collected in subsidies for sheep they did not own. The sheepless couple was apparently trying to take advantage of subsidies administered by the Farm Services...
by admin | Jan 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
When he was 11, my son broke his thumb playing football. We took him straight for an x-ray. The doctors set his bone and gave him a cast, which delighted him because he got it in camouflage color and it meant he did not have to take notes at school. Four weeks later,...
