A former Alere Inc. employee who blew the whistle on the medical device manufacturer will receive approximately $5.6 million as a reward. The former senior quality control analyst exposed millions of dollars in false claims against Medicare, Medicaid and other federal...
Month: March 2018
Month: March 2018
SEC: 3 Whistleblowers receive record total rewards of $83 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission has just announced three record-setting rewards for whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Act. Two of the whistleblowers will share an award of nearly $50 million, while a third will receive over $33 million. The SEC says that the...
Trucking company fraudulently misused federal gas credit cards
Virginia-based Beam Bros. Trucking Inc. and its principles have agreed to settle a federal False Claims Act case for $1,025,000. According to the Justice Department, Beam Bros. entered into U.S. Postal Service contracts to transport mail. The USPS enters into such...
Did Wells Fargo close fraud victims’ accounts to save money?
Whenever a customer or bank notices signs of fraud on the customer's account, the bank is required by law to perform an investigation. It must determine whether criminal activity has occurred and whether the customer was involved. When the customer is involved, the...
WHISTLEBLOWER CASE BROUGHT BY FISCHER LEGAL GROUP CLIENT AGAINST LONG ISLAND PEDIATRICIANS SETTLES FOR $750,000
New York, March 7, 2018: The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of NewYork and the Attorney General for the State of New York settled a Federal and New York StateFalse Claims Act qui tam action, brought by Andrea Fischer and handled by Andrea Fischer...
DOJ accuses compounding pharmacy of TRICARE kickback scheme
The Department of Justice has just brought a mammoth case against a Florida compounding pharmacy, two of its executives, and the private equity firm that owns it. The agency accuses the defendants of paying illegal kickbacks to telemedicine doctors and, in some cases,...
False Claims Act’s whistleblower provision is a powerful tool
The False Claims Act, originally instituted in 1863, is a federal law aimed at fighting fraud against the United States government. Recently, a lawsuit using the whistleblower provision of this law was filed in Florida by two former employees of Patient Care America...
