Americans love rooting for the underdog, especially when the underdog is a whistleblower challenging telecom giant AT&T. At stake is $2.5 billion of taxpayer money. If the damages are trebled, the suit could be one of the largest whistleblower victories in history. A hearing scheduled for this May may give us some answers. The lawsuit […]
Whistleblower Gets $315k in Anti Kickback Case
Kickbacks in the healthcare field are illegal. The Anti Kickback Statute and Stark law carry hefty penalties for healthcare providers that engage in these illegal schemes. The former owner of a West Palm Beach home healthcare agency is today learning that lesson the hard way. Mark Conklin is the former owner and operator of two […]
Whistleblower Award for Anti Dumping (Smuggling) Info
[Updated 2021 to include new presidential executive orders] Congress has a long history of helping American manufacturers in their struggle against cheap foreign imports. A whistleblower with inside information about one company’s attempts to import cheap Chinese made goods and avoid customs duties stopped that scheme in its tracks. For its efforts, the whistleblower also […]
Dr. Devin Thauberger DC Guilty of Medicare Fraud
[Story updated November 2017] Chiropractic care has been become a very competitive field. Most chiropractors compete by trying to offer the best quality care possible. And then there is Devin Thauberger of Louisville. Not satisfied with the money he was making from his practice, Thauberger decided to dabble in Medicare fraud. He billed Medicare and […]
CMBS Loan Modification & Refinance
Many Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) loans are set to mature over the next year. Although the underlying properties are generating more than enough cash flow to meet all loan, tax and reserve payments, these loans are still in imminent danger of default. We have seen many borrowers surprised when their loan is put into […]
Whistleblower News Review
“$784 Million Recovery in Whistleblower Exposed Pfizer Medicaid Billing Scheme” by ML McLaren Link to original source (147K) In one of the biggest settlements of its kind to date, U.S. drug giant Pfizer has entered a tentative agreement to pay $784.6 million to settle long-running allegations that drug manufacturer Wyeth overcharged Medicaid for its heartburn […]
Cable Installers Wage Theft Investigation – Misclassification
Courts Increasingly Say Cable Installers Eligible for Overtime Pay The U.S. Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service and 37 states have created a “hit list” of industries that may be cheating workers from overtime and pay for time worked (“wage theft”). High on the list are cable and satellite companies that hire cable installers and […]
Investigating FSC Securities, Ronald McLane
[With August 2019 Update Below] Back in 2014, we wrote a blog post about FSC Securities. At that time, the company was ordered to pay almost $1 million after a customer dispute was heard by an arbitration panel. The customer claimed that FSC failed to properly supervise its brokers and that brokers were making unsuitable […]
Hospice Fraud – Urging Nurses to Overdose Patients?
Oh those pesky patients… Some lawyers – admittedly burned out lawyers – have been known to say that the practice of law would be great but for the clients. Apparently some hospice owners feel the same way. In one of the worst hospice fraud cases ever, the FBI says that the owner of Novus Health […]
Whistleblower Still Unpaid in New Mexico False Claims Case
Maverick Granger was once a branch manager for PC Specialists, Inc. PC Specialists goes by the name Technology Integration Group or TIG. The company supplies computer systems to large institutional buyers and governments. Once of their contracts was with the National Nuclear Security Administration. Last summer TIG paid $5.9 million to settle fraud charges brought […]
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