Farming is not an easy occupation. Having lived on a farm, I know all about getting up at 4:00 am everyday to milk cows. Ag workers know that the work doesn’t stop simply because it is a holiday or a weekend. Although agricultural workers are some of the hardest working people in society, they are […]
TX Property Managers Accuse Employer of Overtime & Wage Theft
A Texas woman is accusing her employer of wage and overtime theft. Sherry Shelby filed a complaint under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) accusing Boxer Property Management as improperly classifying her as exempt from overtime. Under the FLSA’s damage remedies, her wage theft claims could result in an award of double damages plus […]
Law Firm Responsible for Ponzi Scheme Losses
What does legal malpractice have to do with a Ponzi scheme? Plenty, if a law firm helped facilitate the scheme. When that happens, the lawyers can be held responsible for investor losses. Recently I wrote about the $7 billion Ponzi scheme perpetrated by “Sir” Allen Stanford. For a while, it looked like Stanford’s victims might […]
Feds Examine Portable X-Ray Services (Medicare Fraud Whistleblower)
Health and Human Services’ Inspector General is looking into portable x-ray services. The government believes there are widespread overbillings within the industry. According to the Inspector General (OIG), they have “identified questionable billing patterns by portable x-ray providers, including billing for services ordered by non-physicians and services that were not medically necessary or adequately documented.” Billing for undocumented […]
Ocean Freight Price Fixing New Whistleblower Target
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted yet another shipping company executive. Mauricio Javier Garrido Garcia (Garrido), a Vice President of Compañia Sudamericana de Vapores S.A. (CSAV), was indicted today for criminal conspiracy. Prosecutors say that Garrido conspired with other shipping companies to rig bids and fix prices. He is the eighth person to be indicted. […]
Better Pay for Home Care Workers – FLSA Wage Theft Post
Home Care workers save taxpayers billions of dollars each year. Although the industry has its fair share of problems and fraud, it is much cheaper to care for a patient at home than in a skilled nursing facility. According to the 2015 Senior Living Price Index, the median cost of home care is between $112 […]
DBE Fraud – Feds Bust Phony Tennessee Minority Owned Biz
The Department of Justice continues it push to ferret out DBE fraud. Last week prosecutors announced they had intervened in a private whistleblower lawsuit and fined Mountain States Contractors $2,250,000 for posing as a minority owned business. Federal contracting guidelines set aside a certain percentage of government work for disadvantaged business enterprises (“DBE”). Unfortunately, some […]
Whistleblower Retaliation – Oracle to Sue Whistleblower
It’s tough enough being a whistleblower. In the typical case we see, whistleblowers first try to correct problems internally long before calling a lawyer. Often they are ignored, however. Most employees dislike greed and corruption but few are willing to stand up and report problems. Those that do are frequently ignored. Some are ostracized. Sometimes […]
DOJ Intervenes in $50 Million Medicare Fraud Whistleblower Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice intervened in a $50 million Medicare fraud lawsuit filed by a whistleblower against Prime Healthcare Services. The case was filed by a former Prime nurse turned whistleblower, Karin Bernsten. She claims the healthcare system and its CEO encouraged physicians to admit patients for costly hospital stays even though their condition […]
Bloomberg BNA
Ride-Sharing Company Faces Nationwide FLSA Lawsuit by Michael J. Bologna and Lisa Nagele-Piazza | Link to original source (103K) Uber Technologies Inc., fresh off a $100 million settlement with drivers in California and Massachusetts, now faces a nationwide class action that claims the on-demand ride-sharing company illegally classified drivers as independent contractors and denied them […]
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