Ocean Freight Price Fixing New Whistleblower Target
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted yet another shipping company executive. Mauricio Javier Garrido Garcia (Garrido), a Vice President of Compañia Sudamericana de Vapores S.A. (CSAV), was...
View ArticleFeds Examine Portable X-Ray Services (Medicare Fraud Whistleblower)
Health and Human Services’ Inspector General is looking into portable x-ray services. The government believes there are widespread overbillings within the industry. According to the Inspector General...
View ArticleLaw Firm Responsible for Ponzi Scheme Losses
What does legal malpractice have to do with a Ponzi scheme? Plenty, if a law firm helped facilitate the scheme. When that happens, the lawyers can be held responsible for investor losses. Recently I...
View ArticleTX Property Managers Accuse Employer of Overtime & Wage Theft
A Texas woman is accusing her employer of wage and overtime theft. Sherry Shelby filed a complaint under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) accusing Boxer Property Management as improperly...
View ArticleFeds Find 2000 Ag Workers Owed Wages – FLSA Wage Theft Post
Farming is not an easy occupation. Having lived on a farm, I know all about getting up at 4:00 am everyday to milk cows. Ag workers know that the work doesn’t stop simply because it is a holiday or a...
View ArticleCorrections Officers Get $2m to Settle Wage Claims – Wage Theft Post
A group of present and former corrections officers in Nashville will be seeing a nice bump in their next paycheck. Officers with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office filed several wage claims against...
View ArticleOne Hundred Million Unsafe Prescription Drugs – Whistleblower Post
The International Journal of Health Services says that over the last 18 years, 17 different drugs were approved for patient use in the U.S. and later pulled because they were unsafe. That may not sound...
View ArticleSham Veteran Owned Biz Owner GUILTY – SDVOSB Whistleblower Post
A Boston federal court jury found the owner of a phony service disabled, veteran owned business guilty of a $100 million fraud. David Gorski was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government...
View ArticleWhat Does Enterprise-Rent-a-Car and a St Louis Hotel Co. Have in Common?
The title of this post sounds like the introduction to a joke. “What does Enterprise-Rent-A-Car and a St. Louis hotel operator have in common?” It’s no joke however. Both companies are headquartered...
View ArticleWage Theft Updates: Service Industry, Food Service and More
Employees suffering from wage theft continue to rack up big victories. Failure to pay most workers minimum wage or overtime at time and one half is a federal offense. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop...
View ArticleRadio 620 WTMJ
Local Uber driver sues company by John Mercure | Link to original source A former Milwaukee Uber driver is suing the company over the amount of money he’s making working for the ride sharing service....
View ArticleYellow Cab Settles Medicaid Fraud Charge (Whistleblower Lawyer)
What do Yellow Cabs and Medicaid Fraud have in common? If you live in Dallas, a lot. In 2012 three former Yellow Cab employees blew the whistle on their employer. The three said that cab companies were...
View ArticleIndependence Day Message for Whistleblowers
The year was 1976. I was not quite 18 years old and already in college. I remember being home for the summer and watching the tall ships sail through New York Harbor. Although spirits were high for the...
View Article$3 Billion in False Claims Act Recoveries “Isn’t Enough”? We Agree!
Vinson & Elkins is one of the largest law firms in the nation. It didn’t grow so big and powerful representing whistleblowers in False Claims Act lawsuits, however. It makes its money representing...
View ArticleCharitable Donation or Kickback? Medicare Fraud Post
A former vice president of Accredo Health Group has sued Accredo and its affiliates claiming they committed Medicare fraud by engaging in a kickback scheme with certain charities that support...
View ArticleDoc Guilty in Medicare Fraud Lab Referral Scheme
Mention “Medicare fraud” and everyone forms a different mental picture. Some folks think about patients abusing the national healthcare program to buy unnecessary pain medications. Others think of...
View ArticleBribery & Corruption = FCPA Whistleblower Awards
Public bribery is an every day event in much of the world. Read the New York Post or Chicago Sun Times and it looks like a pretty common event in certain U.S. cities too. American companies and certain...
View ArticleStartling New Medicaid Fraud Report – Medical Transportation
Medicare’s Inspector General released a startling report claiming that New Jersey did a horrible job of overseeing its Medicaid nonemergency medical transportation program. As a result, the feds...
View ArticleLatin American Corruption = More Whistleblower Awards (FCPA Post)
jpInvestment dollars continue to pour into Latin America. In terms of political stability, Central and South America is a mixed bag. Even with countries and regimes considered stable, however,...
View ArticleThink You Don’t Need a Lawyer for SEC Whistleblower Case?
Think you don’t need a lawyer to file an SEC whistleblower case? Think again. The SEC has released new figures from its nascent whistleblower program and the results are disappointing but improving....
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