Billions of dollars have been lost in recent years to fraudsters and Ponzi scheme artists. Sooner or later, the scam collapses leaving victims in a mad scramble to get back their hard earned money. The Bernie Madoff scandal came to light over 5 years ago yet many victims have received almost nothing. Prosecutors, bankruptcy trustees […]
School Food Vendor Pays $19.4 in Whistleblower Suit
On Friday, the District of Columbia government announced that Chartwells, a school food servicer vendor, agreed to pay over $19 million dollars to settle a whistleblower suit filed under the city’s False Claims Act. Jeffrey Mills, the former director of the DC school system’s Office of Food & Nutritional Services, originally filed the case. In […]
First Tennessee Bank Settles False Claims Act Suit – $212 Million!
First Tennessee Bank agreed to pay over $212 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act. Prosecutors claimed the bank originated mortgage loans knowing that they did not meet HUD and FHA requirements. In order to maintain liquidity in the housing markets and insure a ready supply of loans to homebuyers, the […]
TARP Fraud Leads to Prison, $118 Million Restitution Order
Chutzpah is an ancient Yiddish word that roughly translates to “shameless audacity or “unmitigated gall.” It is also the term used by U.S. District Court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in sentencing Wilbur “Anthony” Huff to 12 years in prison. Huff was accused of defrauding over 1500 people out of more than $118 million. Along the […]
NY State Becomes DEFENDANT in False Claims Act Case
New York has one of the strongest False Claims Act laws in the nation. Designed to combat fraud, New York’s whistleblower law has been a model for other states. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. A fired auditor whose job was to uncover Medicaid fraud now claims the state is covering up […]
Real Estate Promoter Carlton Cabot Arrested – Is He the Worst Fraudster in Modern History?
Editor’s Note: This story appeared in the National Law Journal. It was written by attorney Brian Mahany and is reprinted here for our readers.] The name Carlton Cabot was once synonymous with tenant in common (TIC) real estate projects. Cabot claimed to have raised hundreds of millions of dollars and public records show that he promoted approximately 18 large […]
Not Filing FBARs? Whistleblowers Are Waiting!
By Veronica Pamoukaghlian, Senior Technical Writer. Updated January 2019 by Brian Mahany Today, not reporting foreign bank accounts to the IRS can lead to unthinkable penalties. If you who have kept an overseas account at a non-US bank without disclosing this information to the IRS, a mere $10,000 account might lead to penalties of hundreds of […]
Wisconsin Watchdog
District Attorney John Chisholm’s effort to silence his staff “appears to violate the Constitution,” says a nationally renowned expert on whistle-blower law.
Brian Mahany, a Milwaukee-based fraud recovery and whistle-blower claims lawyer who brings a resume fat with legal wins, says it…
Healthcare Dive June 2015
Dive Brief: Friendship Healthcare Services, a group of home healthcare providers based in Nashville, has paid $6.5 million to settle a whistleblower case. The case alleged that the company billed TennCare, Medicare and TRICARE for ineligible private nursing services, forged…
TIC Promoter Carlton Cabot ARRESTED!
The newsfeed from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan was buried in a ton of other emails. I didn’t see it right away but it only minutes for many of our clients to hear the news – TIC promoter Carlton Cabot and his minion Timothy Kroll were arrested for their roles in one of the […]
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