HSBC is back in the news and once again, it isn’t good news for the bank or its clients. This week The Guardian ran a feature story titled, “Cash Pilgrims and Bricks of Money: HSBC Swiss Bank Operated Like Cash Machine for Rich Clients.” Long considered a bank secrecy and tax haven, some clients were […]
Gov’t Weights in on Ex-Im Bank Whistleblower Case
The government wants a federal appeals court to hold Moving Water Industries responsible for $15 million in damages previously awarded by a District of Columbia jury in a whistleblower suit. The government claims that the Florida based company filed false documents in connection with a multi-million dollar loan from the U.S. Export – Import Bank. […]
Big Whistleblower Win on "Public Disclosure" Bar
America’s primary whistleblower reward statute is the Federal False Claims Act. Whistleblowers who come forward with original source information about fraud against the government or a government program can receive a reward of up to 30% of whatever the government collects from the wrongdoer. A key component of the program is the requirement that the […]
Medicare Fraud, Nursing Homes & Ambulances
The Justice Department and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) have been scrutinizing ambulance companies for several years now. The FBI already says that America’s Medicare fraud problem has become an epidemic. Nowhere is that more evident than with ambulance companies. Many are billing Medicare for medically unnecessary ambulance services and coding routine […]
$1 Billion S&P Settlement Highlights FIRREA Powers
Standard & Poor’s Financial Services agreed this week to settle charges brought by the U.S. Justice Department. The company must pay a fine of $1,380,000,000.00 as part of the settlement. The government had accused the rating agency of inflating the ratings of certain securities including residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) that later turned out to […]
Ocwen – Turn Yourself In And Beg For Mercy
[Ed. Note May 2017 – This post was updated with information for current Ocwen customers.] Do you want to know how a company is doing? Ask it’s employees. Sure, there will always be a few disgruntled workers but overall, most companies get fair to excellent reviews from their workers. And then there is Ocwen. The […]
Filthy Pharma – Whistleblowers and cGMP
Last year a federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia upheld the dismissal of a whistleblower suit alleging violations of current good manufacturing practices, known in the industry as “cGMP.” Filed under the federal False Claims Act, the whistleblower claimed that his former employer, Omnicare, violated a series of cGMP safety regulations requiring that penicillin and […]
Where is the Justice? (Ocwen Whistleblower Post)
[Ed. Note. This post was updated May 2017 with important new information for homeowners.] As a thousands of people displaced by illegal foreclosure practices struggle this snowy winter, Bill Erbey is getting paid to resign. Talk about a kick in the pants for homeowners and Ocwen employees. Ocwen, the nation’s largest non-bank residential mortgage servicer, […]
Adulterated Drugs & Medicare Fraud Whistleblower Rewards
[Updated May 2019]Americans spend about $330 billion dollars per year on prescription drugs. Much of that is paid for by tax dollars, including Medicaid, Medicare and programs for veterans and federal employees. In an effort to cut costs and boost profits, many drug companies are shifting manufacturing to facilities in India, China and Mexico. How […]
Trial Begins in Gruesome Medicare Fraud Case
Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital claimed it had a “patient first focus.” The families of two patients who recently died at the hospital tell a much different story. They sued the hospital for racketeering and claimed both the hospital and its administrators conspired to perform medically unnecessary and sometimes dangerous surgeries simply to maximize Medicaid and […]
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