Musings On IRS Scandal
by Brian Mahany The recent scandal involving the IRS and politically targeted audits has been well covered by mainstream media. I wasn’t even going to write about but for 3 emails from past and present...
View ArticleTwo Florida Physicians & CPA Indicted in Unreported Foreign Accounts Scheme
Husband and wife Florida physicians have been charged with conspiring to defraud the United States and the IRS by stashing tens of millions of dollars in unreported foreign accounts. They join Beda...
View ArticleTax Reform – Has The Time Finally Arrived?
Earlier this week while sipping wine at the Milwaukee Public Market I sat next to policy wonk from a DC think tank. With the National Governors Association in Milwaukee, lobbyists from around the...
View ArticleIRS Audit Defense – IRS Gets Info From Spy Agencies
Reuters recently carried a scary story – the IRS exchanges information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence...
View ArticleFBAR Post – Would You Spend 6 Months in Jail for $1.4 Million?
A Swiss judge sentenced a German IT technician to 3 years prison for stealing thousands of client records from Julius Baer bank. Under Swiss law, he could be released on probation in as little as 6...
View ArticleOffshore Tax Evasion Update – By The Numbers
We frequently post stories about both Americans and foreign bankers prosecuted for tax evasion involving unreported offshore accounts. U.S. taxpayers are usually prosecuted for filing a false tax...
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Have A Government Security Clearance? Watch Out for IRS Tax Liens!
Tens of thousands of Americans have government security clearances. Whether you are a federal employee or private contractor, keeping your security clearance is key to staying employed. Having an IRS...
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Compliance Officers: Heroes or Targets?
Compliance Officers: Heroes or Targets? Compliance officers are getting a lot of press these days. Not all of it good. A series of recent enforcement actions found individual compliance officers...
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Seeking Oil Industry Whistleblowers
New Opportunities for Oil Industry Whistleblowers Recently we received a call from a gentleman who claims that U.S. oil companies are paying massive bribes in certain countries in the hopes of...
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Big Whistleblower Cases Still Exist!
Morgan Stanley to Pay $3.2 Billion In late 2014, the Justice Department announced that it settled several whistleblower cases against Bank of America for $16.65 billion. Pundits and commentators said...
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Gov’t Paying Top Dollar for Fannie & Freddie Whistleblowers
Gov’t Paying Top Dollar for Fannie & Freddie Whistleblowers The federal False Claims Act allows ordinary people with inside information about fraud involving government funds to do something...
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Bearer Bonds – Great IRS Whistleblower Opportunities
Foreign Bearer Bonds and Bearer Securities Present New IRS Whistleblower Opportunities Bearer bonds are securities that are not registered and have very little documentation. Whoever holds the physical...
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Breaking News – Pfizer Settles Whistleblower Case $785 mm
Will Two Whistleblowers Receive $118 Million in Qui Tam Award Monies? Probably Yes! $785 million is a lot of money, even for big pharma. That is the amount that Pfizer is probably going to pay to...
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NJ Doc Pays $5.25 Million to Settle Qui Tam Complaint
Justice Department Tags NJ Doctor for $5.25 Million in Medicare Fraud Qui Tam Action Dr. Labib Riachi and his company, Center for Advanced Pelvic Surgery, must pay $5.25 million to settle a...
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“Even A Dog Can Get A Mortgage”– Whistleblower Post
Are We Facing A New Mortgage Crisis? Yes And That Means New Whistleblower Opportunities CNBC carried an interesting story this week; house flipping is reportedly “on fire” in Las Vegas and Miami. Of...
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Hospice Care – The New False Claims Act Frontier
Hospice Care is the Newest Frontier in Medicare Fraud and Whistleblower Claims Under the False Claims Act The demand for hospice care is exploding. Because most of the recipients of end-of-life care...
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Seeking Freedom Mortgage Insiders & Borrowers
Did Freedom Mortgage Overcharge Vets? MahanyLaw, a leading national False Claims Act / Whistleblower law firm is seeking information about possible improprieties by Freedom Mortgage Corporation....
View ArticleCMBS 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...
View ArticleWhen Medicare Fraud Kills Patients
Medicare fraud is a victimless crime, right? Unfortunately, some folks still see things that way. That attitude may account for why Medicare fraud costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars each year....
View ArticleChiropractor Guilty of Medicare Fraud
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...
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