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Medicare watchdogs have been vocal about the insurance companies stealing billions from taxpayers through the emergent Medicare Advantage plan, which is the choice of half of all Medicare beneficiaries. These private plans offered by insurers have lower premiums than...
The Saratoga Center for Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Care had been on the radar of state and federal governments for some time. The nursing home in Ballston Spa, New York, was on a watch list for two years before closing in February 2021. The Department of...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on February 3 that it brought charges against Activision Blizzard Inc. The company is responsible for such video games as Call of Duty, Tony Hawk’s, Guitar Hero, Candy Crush, and Overwatch. Among other things,...
The United States Supreme Court recently agreed to review two cases where the defendants were accused of knowingly making false claims or statements to the U.S. government. The defendants in separate cases U.S. ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu, Inc. and U.S. ex rel....
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday, January 24, that it issued over $28 million payout to an unidentified group of whistleblowers. The group (the SEC did not provide the number of people involved) provided substantive ongoing guidance and...
A Southern District of Florida jury convicted a Georgia man for a $463 million scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting unnecessary tests conducted by his lab. According to the Department of Justice, the defendant arranged unnecessary genetic tests using kickbacks to...
On January 5, Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Celsius and Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO and co-founder of the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network LLC. The suit alleges that the now-bankrupt company defrauded 26,000 New Yorkers and...
The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to approve the Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act (AMLA) on December 7, 2022. The bill known as S.3316/H.R. 7195 is part of the $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, an Omnibus spending package that...
A three-judge panel at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by a former Morgan Stanley lawyer based in Asia who claims he was forced to resign. The judges again determined that whistleblower protections enjoyed in the U.S. do not apply to employees...
Enacted in the aftermath of Enron, WorldCom. and several other scandals, the Sarabanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 contains 11 sections that regulate how all publicly traded companies in the U.S. handle their accounting and record keeping. Also known as the "Public...