Caldwell University Agrees To Pay More Than $4.8 Million To Resolve Allegations Of Violating False Claims Act
NEWARK,
N.J. – Caldwell University has agreed to pay the United States more
than $4.8 million to resolve allegations that it engaged in a fraudulent
scheme to defraud a federal education benefit program, U.S. Attorney
Craig Carpenito announced.
“Caldwell University tried to hoodwink the Department of Veterans
Affairs and, worse, veterans themselves, by claiming to offer onlin...
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$950,000 to Settle Medicare Billing Fraud
San Diego Eye Doctors Pay $950,000 to Settle Medicare Billing Fraud Allegations
SAN DIEGO – Mark D. Smith and Fane Robinson, two San Diego-area
physicians, have paid the United States $948,768.18 to resolve
allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act by knowingly
submitting false claims to Medicare.
Dr. Smith and Dr. Robinson are medical doctors specializing in
ophthalmology. They maintain a medical practice in San Diego known as
San Diego Retina Assoc...
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Six Charged by SEC International Fraud Schemes
SEC Charges Six Individuals in International Microcap Fraud Schemes
The Securities and Exchange
Commission today charged six individuals and their companies with
participating in schemes that allegedly generated more than $35 million
of illegal sales of stock in at least 45 microcap companies. The charges
contained in two complaints reflect investigations by staff in the
SEC’s New York and Boston offices, and assistance from multiple
regulators outside the U.S.
According to one SEC...
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Whistleblowers Win $8.6 million in LAPD Cops Retaliation Suit
For months, the two Los Angeles Police Department bloodhound handlers saw their supervisor harass their female colleague.
Over
and over, they saw him try to massage her shoulders, unsolicited, and
heard him make suggestive comments about her body. The supervisor often
showed up to her calls, something he didn’t do as much with her male
counterparts.
When
they complained on the woman’s behalf, Officers Elliot Zibli and David
Dooros suffered backlash so severe that they...
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Whistleblower Laws Violated by Gag Orders at Federal Agencies
Agencies can't bar speech without reminding workers of their rights
In December, The Washington Post revealed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had recommended employees not use certain words, including “diversity” and “entitlement,” when preparing budget documents for Congress. According to a federal watchdog, which verified parts of The Post’s reporting, this was one of several questionable decisions the CDC and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Ser...
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Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House
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What we know about Hanford we know mainly from whistle-blowers who worked inside the nuclear facility—and who have been ostracized by their community for threatening the industry in a one-industry town. (“Resistance to understanding a threat grows with proximity,” writes Brown.) One hundred and forty-nine of the tanks in the Hanford farms are made of a single shell of a steel ill-designed to contain highly...
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Former Cardiovascular Systems Inc. Employee Awarded $25 million in Whistleblower Lawsuit
A Los Angeles jury has awarded more than $25 million to a whistleblower who was fired for reporting what he considered illegal sales tactics and surgeon kickbacks by a Minnesota medical device company.
Steven Babyak won his lawsuit against former employer, St. Paul-based Cardiovascular Systems Inc., for both whistleblower retaliation and wrongful termination in Los Angeles Superior Court. The jury on Monday awarded $2.7 million for past and future wage loss, and $22.4 million in punitive dama...
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Walgreens Pays $9.86 Million Resolving Whistleblower Claims Of Fraud Against California’s Medi-Cal
Berger & Montague, P.C. announced today the settlement of a False Claims Act case against Walgreen Co. (Walgreens) for $9.86 million to resolve allegations that Walgreens falsely billed California's Medicaid Program, Medi-Cal. The settlement resolves allegations raised in two whistleblower lawsuits brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. Berger & Montague represented former Walgreens pharmacy technician, Debbie G. Rinehart, who was one of the two individ...
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UnitedHealth shares fall after Justice Department joins Medicare whistleblower lawsuit
Shares of U.S. health insurer UnitedHealth dropped Friday following news that the Justice Department has joined a lawsuit filed by a former executive. The lawsuit accuses the company of overcharging Medicare by hundreds of millions of dollars.
UnitedHealth stock, a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, ended the session about 3.7 percent lower, closing at $157.62 a share.
Shares of several other insurers also fell. They include Aetna, Humana,and WellCare, which whistle blower Benjamin P...
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Whistleblower Claims Pilot Flying J Fraud Cheated Federal Government
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Pilot Flying J diesel rebate fraud scheme cheated not just trucking companies across the U.S. but the federal government, according to the man who says he helped crack the case.
John Verble, a former broker at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's Knoxville branch office, says he was fired in 2013 for working with the FBI as an informant in the Pilot case and for alerting authorities to other questionable dealings he says he stumbled upon during his work there. The brokerage ...
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