Government intervenes in Allison Engine Case to help appeal District Court Ruling
The Department of Justice (DOJ) intervened in Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel Sanders , a qui tam case pending in the U.S.…
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President Announces Support for Important False Claims Act Amendments
The Obama Administration strongly supports enactment of S. 386 (the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009), according to a statement released April 20, 2009,…
Read More »The Time is Now for Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, Grassley says
As he debates on the senate floor on a bill that he cosponsored, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa released…
Read More »Watchdog Groups Call on President to Support Stronger Whistleblower Protections
Our nation’s watchdog organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Federation of Government Employees, National Whistleblower Center and Project on Government Oversight, sent a…
Read More »Whistleblower Exposes What Could be Massive Medi-Cal Fraud Scheme
The State of California has joined a qui tam action against seven private laboratories to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in false claims submitted…
Read More »SEC Ponders Cash Rewards for Whistleblowers
As Bernard Madoff was planning his guilty plea in a history-making fraud case, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary. L. Schapiro announced that the SEC…
Read More »U.S. Intervenes in Whistleblower Suit against Community Health Systems and New Mexico Hospitals
The United States is intervening in a whistleblower suit that alleges that Community Health Systems Inc. (CHS) and three of its hospitals in New Mexico…
Read More »2009 FCA Amendment Aims to Increase Government Accountability and Whistleblower Protection
The fate of a bill amending the False Claims Act (FCA) is in Senate hands. The False Claims Clarification Act of 2009, introduced by Sen.…
Read More »Hospitals Are Giving Lessons on Blowing the Whistle on Fraud
A federal law that takes effect in January 2007 requires the country’s hospitals and nursing homes to educate their employees and officers on how to…
Read More »DOJ May Join False Claims Act Lawsuit to Collect $30 Million Relator Share
The Department of Justice may end up joining a False Claims Act case to collect the $30 Million recovery won by the relator but then…
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