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Motor Vehicle Accidents are one of the highest causes of death in the United States. While we may never be able to eliminate motor vehicle accidents due to human error, Congress has taken a huge...
The fiscal Year 2016 proved another strong year for the False Claims Act. With a total recovery of more than $4.7 billion this year, the Government has recovered more than $31 billion since 2009. Of...
A new study by University of Iowa professor Jaron H. Wilde confirms the importance of whistleblowers in deterring corporate misconduct. The New York Times published an article this week highlighting...
Recently, we discussed how the SEC was investigating Wells Fargo regarding the bank’s fraudulent practice of opening up bank accounts without customers’ knowledge. (If you’d like to read that...
Since its humble beginnings following the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act of 2010, the SEC Whistleblower Program has continuously proven to be a powerful force against fraud and a...
BHP BILLITON PAYS $25 MILLION FOR FAILING TO HAVE ADEQUATE INTERNAL PROCEDURES IN ILLEGAL QUID PRO QUO AGREEMENT WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. In 2015, BHP Billiton, the Australian based mining...
WHISTLEBLOWERS BE AWARE – AS THE PANAMA PAPERS SHOW, THE RICH AND POWERFUL STILL THINK THEY CAN HIDE THEIR ASSETS FROM THEIR GOVERNMENTS TO AVOID PAYING TAXES. April 8, 2016 – Recently, an anonymous...
WHISTLEBLOWERS TAKE NOTE: THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS FORMED A NEW ENFORCEMENT UNIT CHARGED WITH INVESTIGATING AND PROSECUTING FEDERAL STUDENT AID FRAUD. WHISTLEBLOWER REWARDS FOR REPORTING...
THE FEDERAL FALSE CLAIMS ACT CONTINUES TO BE THE GOVERNMENT’S BEST WEAPON IN COMBATING FRAUD AGAINST GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS, GENERATING $3.5 BILLION IN RECOVERIES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 2015. It was...
NEW YORK, New York, February 26, 2015 – Whistleblower attorneys at the qui tam law firm of Levy Konigsberg LLP (“LK”) have successfully concluded a whistleblower or “qui tam” matter filed against a...
A qui tam attorney from the national whistleblower law firm Levy Konigsberg LLP discusses the final rules governing gainful employment requirements for for-profit colleges issued by the Department...
Pharmaceutical company CareFusion agrees to pay $40.1 million to settle whistleblower suit alleging physician kick-backs and off-label marketing. January 13, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Justice...
United States intervenes in a qui tam lawsuit alleging that IPC the Hospitalist Company, Inc., committed healthcare fraud by up-coding physicians’ services and defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. NEW...
Securities fraud whistleblower will receive more than $14 Million in reward for reporting corporate fraud under the SEC’s Whistleblower Program. October 9, 2013 – On October 1, 2013, the Securities...
August 23, 2013 – The Georgia Attorney General, Samuel Olens, announced that his office has intervened in a federal whistleblower lawsuit filed against several Georgia hospitals, including Health...
August 12, 2013 – Chicago, IL. Northwestern University, considered one of the nation’s premier colleges, has agreed to pay $3 Million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging misuse of medical...
June 19, 2013 – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has issued its second ever whistleblower incentive award. The whistleblower award program was established as part of the 2009...
NEW YORK, New York | July 18, 2013 – Lessons from Hurricane Katrina suggest that the large influx of federal aid associated with the Hurricane Sandy relief will present the potential for fraud and...
July 12, 2013 – In a sharp rebuke, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit against the for-profit college ITT Educational Services....
July 10, 2013 – Florida-based healthcare provider faces $1 billion in damages after a whistleblower, a former compliance officer, blows the whistle on fraud schemes involving illegal kickbacks and...
June 28, 2013 – Starting July 1, 2013, whistleblowers employed by Defense Department subcontractors will be protected from retaliation under new provisions contained in the National Defense...
June 3, 2013 – On May 7, 2013, after a six-day trial in Hudson County Superior Court of New Jersey, a unanimous eight-member jury awarded a former lab technician at Bayonne Medical Center, $80,640...
Motor Vehicle Accidents are one of the highest causes of death in the United States. While we may never be able to eliminate motor vehicle accidents due to human error, Congress has taken a huge...
The fiscal Year 2016 proved another strong year for the False Claims Act. With a total recovery of more than $4.7 billion this year, the Government has recovered more than $31 billion since 2009. Of...
A new study by University of Iowa professor Jaron H. Wilde confirms the importance of whistleblowers in deterring corporate misconduct. The New York Times published an article this week highlighting...
Recently, we discussed how the SEC was investigating Wells Fargo regarding the bank’s fraudulent practice of opening up bank accounts without customers’ knowledge. (If you’d like to read that...
Since its humble beginnings following the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act of 2010, the SEC Whistleblower Program has continuously proven to be a powerful force against fraud and a...
BHP BILLITON PAYS $25 MILLION FOR FAILING TO HAVE ADEQUATE INTERNAL PROCEDURES IN ILLEGAL QUID PRO QUO AGREEMENT WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. In 2015, BHP Billiton, the Australian based mining...
WHISTLEBLOWERS BE AWARE – AS THE PANAMA PAPERS SHOW, THE RICH AND POWERFUL STILL THINK THEY CAN HIDE THEIR ASSETS FROM THEIR GOVERNMENTS TO AVOID PAYING TAXES. April 8, 2016 – Recently, an anonymous...
WHISTLEBLOWERS TAKE NOTE: THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS FORMED A NEW ENFORCEMENT UNIT CHARGED WITH INVESTIGATING AND PROSECUTING FEDERAL STUDENT AID FRAUD. WHISTLEBLOWER REWARDS FOR REPORTING...
THE FEDERAL FALSE CLAIMS ACT CONTINUES TO BE THE GOVERNMENT’S BEST WEAPON IN COMBATING FRAUD AGAINST GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS, GENERATING $3.5 BILLION IN RECOVERIES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 2015. It was...
NEW YORK, New York, February 26, 2015 – Whistleblower attorneys at the qui tam law firm of Levy Konigsberg LLP (“LK”) have successfully concluded a whistleblower or “qui tam” matter filed against a...
A qui tam attorney from the national whistleblower law firm Levy Konigsberg LLP discusses the final rules governing gainful employment requirements for for-profit colleges issued by the Department...
Pharmaceutical company CareFusion agrees to pay $40.1 million to settle whistleblower suit alleging physician kick-backs and off-label marketing. January 13, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Justice...
United States intervenes in a qui tam lawsuit alleging that IPC the Hospitalist Company, Inc., committed healthcare fraud by up-coding physicians’ services and defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. NEW...
Securities fraud whistleblower will receive more than $14 Million in reward for reporting corporate fraud under the SEC’s Whistleblower Program. October 9, 2013 – On October 1, 2013, the Securities...
August 23, 2013 – The Georgia Attorney General, Samuel Olens, announced that his office has intervened in a federal whistleblower lawsuit filed against several Georgia hospitals, including Health...
August 12, 2013 – Chicago, IL. Northwestern University, considered one of the nation’s premier colleges, has agreed to pay $3 Million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging misuse of medical...
June 19, 2013 – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has issued its second ever whistleblower incentive award. The whistleblower award program was established as part of the 2009...
NEW YORK, New York | July 18, 2013 – Lessons from Hurricane Katrina suggest that the large influx of federal aid associated with the Hurricane Sandy relief will present the potential for fraud and...
July 12, 2013 – In a sharp rebuke, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit against the for-profit college ITT Educational Services....
July 10, 2013 – Florida-based healthcare provider faces $1 billion in damages after a whistleblower, a former compliance officer, blows the whistle on fraud schemes involving illegal kickbacks and...
June 28, 2013 – Starting July 1, 2013, whistleblowers employed by Defense Department subcontractors will be protected from retaliation under new provisions contained in the National Defense...
June 3, 2013 – On May 7, 2013, after a six-day trial in Hudson County Superior Court of New Jersey, a unanimous eight-member jury awarded a former lab technician at Bayonne Medical Center, $80,640...
May 24, 2013 – Hurricane Katrina is considered the most costly natural disaster in U.S. History, estimated to have cost up to $125 billion. The federal government has picked up the majority of this...
May 16, 2013 – As many are aware, two major public schools systems have been the subject of standardized test cheating scandals this year. Government investigations and criminal conspiracies are not...
December 4, 2012 – An article authored by LK whistleblower attorneys, entitled “Georgia Taxpayer Protection False Claims Act: The Peach State Gets Tough on Fraud against the Government,” was...
January 26, 2012 – A whistleblower government fraud case brought by both the Federal Government under the Federal False Claims Act and the State of New York against Cayuga Medical Center of Ithaca,...
November 16, 2011 – Three New York nursing homes agree to repay more than $745,000 to New York State for alleged bed-billing fraud schemes. Whistleblower represented by the qui tam law firm Levy...
November 1, 2011 – Whistleblower attorneys at Levy Konigsberg LLP help uncover pervasive 10-year fraud on American taxpayers, perpetrated by the City of New York, winning a $14.7 Million reward for...
September 1, 2011 – In a qui tam lawsuit, filed by whistleblower attorneys from Levy Konigsberg LLP alleging multimillion-dollar Medicaid fraud on the part of the City of New York, Federal Judge...
January 14, 2011 – Medicaid fraud attorneys at Levy Konigsberg LLP announce that the US Government has partially intervened in a qui tam lawsuit brought by the law firm against the City of New York,...