Medicaid Fraud – Fed Audit Finds 10 States at High Risk
Medicaid fraud costs taxpayers an estimated $17.5 billion per year. Add in Medicare fraud and the costs could be well over $50 billion per year. Congress and regulators have been trying to stop the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Supreme Court Hears Implied Certification Whistleblower Case
History was made yesterday. The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Universal Health Services vs. United States of America ex rel Escobar. How the court decides will impact the...
View ArticlePanama Papers… Who is Next (IRS Whistleblower Post)
Unreported offshore accounts have long been a tool of the rich hoping to evade taxes. While the average American struggles to make ends meet, a few ultra wealthy folks think it is perfectly acceptable...
View ArticleFlorida Doc Tries Bankruptcy to Avoid Whistleblower Lawsuit
Dr. Asad Qamar and his cardiovascular practice, the Institute of Cardiovascular Excellence PLLC, filed for bankruptcy protection this week. The bankruptcy comes on the heels of a failed attempt to...
View ArticleWhistleblower Awards for Reporting Charity Fraudsters
One of my favorite newspapers is the New York Post. It doesn’t matter who you are, if you are stealing you aren’t safe from the eagle eyes and sharp pencils of the Post. Hardly a day goes by without...
View ArticleDrug Rehab Faces Massive Whistleblower Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice intervened in a massive whistleblower lawsuit against Narco Freedom. A non-profit company, Narco Freedom operated 21 outpatient rehabilitation facilities in New York...
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JD Journal
More Uber Worker Misclassification Lawsuits Filed by Teresa Lo | Link to original source (112K) Less than two weeks after Uber settled its California and Massachusetts misclassification lawsuits, other...
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Inc.
Inside the Brand-New Class-Action Suit Against Uber Contractors or employees? It’s the question that just won’t die for Uber. by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin | Link to original source (131K) Is Uber...
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Forbes
Uber Faces New Class Action Suit By Drivers by Erik Sherman | Link to original source (136K) Just as Uber settled a pair of class action suits with its drivers in Massachusetts and California, here...
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Cook County Record
Uber hit with class actions from drivers claiming they should be treated as employees under FLSA by Jonathan Bilyk | Link to original source (120K) In the wake of ride-sharing company Uber’s settlement...
View ArticleUBER Faces America-wide Lawsuit over Drivers’ Independent Contractor Status &...
UBER national lawsuit? After settling the Uber driver lawsuits in California and Massachusetts, the company is up against its greatest legal challenge yet – a high profile activist driver with a...
View ArticleLorri Trosper Becomes the Voice of Uber Drivers: Trosper’s All-Driver Lawsuit
What is the secret of Uber’s success? According to Forbes’ Daniel Fisher, the company attained its $60 billion market value “by disregarding just about every law, regulation and entrenched special...
View ArticleDisgraced Shipbuilder Gets Contract to Build More Ships
Bollinger Shipyards was awarded a contract to build 26 Coast Guard cutters. The estimated value of the contract is $1.7 billion. The contract award comes just five months after the company paid $8.5...
View ArticleUber Driver Was Granted Unemployment Benefits
Last March, as Uber still awaited larger scale decisions in lawsuits over similar issues, a former Uber driver was awarded $9000 of unemployment benefits. While Uber sources try to claim the case was...
View ArticleDoc’s BK Attempt to Avoid Whistleblower Lawsuit Fails!
[Ed. Note. This story is in two parts. Part one outlines the attempt of Dr. Asad Ullah Qamar to avoid a whistleblower Medicare fraud lawsuit by filing bankruptcy. Since the first post was written, the...
View ArticleWhistleblower Awards for Banks That Hide Fraud Losses
We are a big proponent of bank compliance officers. Finally, after decades of financial funny business, big banks are starting to pay lip service to federal anti-money laundering and compliance...
View ArticleJudge to Company – “Don’t Sue Whistleblower for Taking Documents”
Companies engaged in wrongdoing hate whistleblowers. Since 1863, Congress has provided whistleblowers powerful incentives to report fraud and misconduct. The federal False Claims Act pays...
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Law360
Wyly Ruling Shows Good Advice Can’t Shield Bad Intentions by Vidya Kauri | Link to original source (99K) Texas bankruptcy court’s ruling Tuesday that found billionaire Sam Wyly and his late brother...
View ArticleCounterfeit Chemo Drugs Lead to Qui Tam Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice settled a qui tam lawsuit with Dr. John Kiraly and his wife Rena. Dr. Kiraly is an oncologist in Lodi, California. Prosecutors say that he was importing chemotherapy...
View ArticleTrucking Co. Customer Reps Win Back Overtime
A federal judge approved a $3.6 million overtime settlement for dozens customer service representatives at Swift Transportation. The payment ends a collective action brought by the workers under the...
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