Two homeowners have told a New York federal court that Wells Fargo & Co. and Ocwen Financial Corp. illegally collected payments on mortgages they fraudulently declared in default, according to a False Claims Act suit made available Tuesday.Originally filed under seal in September 2014,…
IRS Search Leads to Suicide
This is a sad, sad story. It is a reminder of why the government must always be vigilant in how it conducts its business. Particularly, with how the IRS collects taxes and enforces the Tax Code. The story begins in 2007 and is still winding its way through the courts. A recent decision by a […]
Belvedere Management Flouts Regulator's "No Sell" Order
Investigative journalist David Marchant appears to be hot on the trail of Belvedere Management. It took just one day for regulators to act after David exposed some very distressing facts about the financial services giant. On March 18th, just 24 hours after Marchant’s Offshore Alert story appeared, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) of the government […]
Fuel Oil Scam Rocks NYC – Whistleblower Post
Most of the False Claims Act cases we write about involve Medicare fraud, residential mortgage programs or federally insured banks. Although all False Claims Act cases involve tax dollars or tax supported programs, the government usually isn’t the victim. Taxpayers are. A case this week from New York City shows that sometimes the government itself […]
New Whistleblower News Website Launched
Finally, an independent news source and clearinghouse for whistleblowers, the Whistleblower News Review! There are a couple good whistleblower organizations within the United States but none dedicated exclusively to whistleblower news stories. All that changed today with the launching of the new site. Why are we so excited? There are two reasons; first we are advertisers […]
Phony Doctor Arrested for Medicare Fraud – AGAIN!
[Updated May 2019] Here is a story we don’t see very often. An “optometrist” previously convicted of Medicaid fraud just a few years ago is apparently at it again. According to an indictment unsealed on December 15th, “Doctor” Prince has been charged with 25 counts of Medicare fraud. Dr. Prince has led an interesting life. […]
Bad Pharma Chronicles – Crestor & Medicaid Fraud?
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca released a major ad campaign for its heart medication, Crestor. One of those ads starts with the tag line, “Get it right the first time.” Medicaid officials in Texas, however, think AstraZeneca didn’t get it right… they believe the company has defrauded the public and taxpayers with “false and misleading marketing” of […]
Banker Convicted of TARP Fraud
A federal jury in Los Angeles this week convicted the former chief operating officer of United Commercial Bank (UCB) of criminal fraud and conspiracy charges. After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury convicted Ebrahim Shabudin of all charges. The indictment related to a TARP fraud that ultimately caused the bank to fail. Taxpayers […]
Belvedere Management, Kijani Continue Death Spiral
Offshore Alert continues to report more disturbing news about financial services giant Belvedere Management. According to an exclusive report last week, publisher David Marchant claims that one of Belvedere’s flagship funds, Kijani Commodity Fund, may really be a $130 million Ponzi scheme. According to Kijani’s website, the fund offers: “absolute returns” in varying market conditions […]
Jail Death Case Presents Whistleblower Opportunities
[Ed. Note: We have provided a much more detailed investigation into the death of Martin Harrison and of similar abuses by Corizon Health. We believe that Corizon sets up nurses and other healthcare workers to fail. Using healthcare workers outside their training and licensure, understaffing, allowing shifts to go unfilled. When these things occur, tragedies […]
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