by admin | Oct 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am a lawyer who represents whistleblowers trying to stop customs fraud. I have several blog entries about the ways that importers and customs brokers attempt to defraud the United States Customs and cheat U.S. citizens by not paying the customs duties they owe to...
by admin | Oct 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
I represent whistleblowers who know about fraud against the Government, so I have been closely following the recent litigation against for-profit universities that have been tricking students into taking huge loans for jobs that they are not qualified for, and...
by admin | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am a False Claims Act qui tam lawyer, and I have been blogging about a recent opinion by a California Court that relates to for-profit colleges, which has recently become a hot area in False Claims Act law. In the California case, U.S. ex rel. Hoggett v. University...
by admin | Oct 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Derek Hoggett and Tavis Good both worked at the University of Phoenix as admissions counselors. I am a lawyer who represents whistleblowers like Hoggett and Good who know about for-profit colleges that are defrauding the Government. I thought I would spend several...
by admin | Oct 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am a whistleblower lawyer, and I represent people who are blowing the whistle on fraud against the Government. In my field of law, which deals with the False Claims Act, we are seeing an alarming increase in the number of fraud cases involving for-profit education....
by admin | Oct 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
The September 27, 2012, report catalogs the cases in which the state and federal governments have settled or obtained judgments against pharmaceutical manufacturers. The report follows up a 2010 report, also by Public Citizen. The earlier report looked at settlements...
by admin | Oct 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Most folks think it is pretty hard to get a doctor to make a house call these days. Apparently a Dearborn, Michigan, doctor is an exception to that rule. According to charges filed by the Justice Department against Dr. Hicham Elhorr, Dr. Elhorr was even willing to...
by admin | Sep 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
I have written several blog entries about a great conference I attended in Washington, D.C. The conference was sponsored by Taxpayers Against Fraud, and was attended by about 300 Government and private lawyers from all over the country. Most of the sessions involved...
by admin | Sep 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
I represent whistleblowers who file qui tam lawsuits, which means they sue on behalf of the Government to recover for money fraudulently taken from the Government. Most of these suits are brought under the False Claims Act (FCA), although there are a variety of...
by admin | Sep 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
I have been blogging about the endless array of ways that people have devised to cheat the Government. I am already on my third post on this subject, and I am only using the examples provided at one session of a CLE conference that I recently attended. I am a member...
