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November 21, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
On the heels of the SEC’s recent report of its whistleblower statistics, the Department of Justice released statistics detailing the staggering False Claims Act recoveries in FY2014. In the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, the United States obtained a record $5.69 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving false or fraudulent claims […]
Learn MoreNovember 20, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The Department of Justice announced today it recovered nearly $6 Billion from False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2014. It is the first annual recovery to exceed $5 Billion. More than 700 Whistleblower Lawsuits were filed for second consecutive year. Noted in the DOJ news release: “It has been an extraordinary year for civil […]
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November 19, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Photo Credit: SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of the Whistleblower released its 2014 Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program. According to the report, the SEC issued more whistleblower rewards in Fiscal Year 2014 than every previous year combined. Recently, the SEC authorized an award of more than $30 million to […]
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November 18, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Al Tompkins – Poynter Institute As the country awaits the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri on whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, the question of what exactly a grand jury does is of prime interest. Al Tompkins, a Senior Faculty Member at the Poynter Institute and […]
Learn MoreNovember 12, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
CareAll Management LLC and its affiliated entities (collectively “CareAll”) have agreed to pay $25 million, plus interest, to the United States and the state of Tennessee to resolve allegations that CareAll violated the False Claims Act by submitting false and upcoded home healthcare billings to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the Department of Justice announced […]
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November 04, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A study released last week by the Social Science Research Network proves what False Claims Act attorneys have known all along: whistleblowers matter. Four researchers evaluated penalties for misrepresentation from the Department of Justice and the Securities & Exchange Commission from 1978 to 2012. The researchers controlled several factors and then compared cases that involved […]
Learn MoreNovember 03, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said preventing fraud is a priority to ensure that people who truly need assistance can get it. Ocean Dental had been accused of submitting false claims to the Oklahoma Medicaid program for dental restorations by former employee Robin Lockwood between January 2005 and September 2010. Lockwood was sentenced to 18 […]
Learn MoreOctober 30, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
North Florida Shipyards and its president, Matt Self, will pay the United States $1 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by creating a front company, Ind-Mar Services Inc., in order to be awarded Coast Guard contracts that were designated for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs), the Justice Department […]
Learn MoreOctober 29, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
EBI LLC, doing business as Biomet Spine and Bone Healing Technologies and Biomet Inc. have agreed to pay $6.07 million to resolve allegations that EBI violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce use of its bone growth stimulators and billing federal health care programs for refurbished stimulators, the Department of Justice announced […]
Learn MoreOctober 22, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The Department of Justice announced today that two cardiologists based in London, Kentucky, have agreed to pay $380,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by entering into sham management agreements with Saint Joseph Hospital, also based in London, Kentucky, in exchange for the referral of cardiology procedures and other healthcare services […]
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October 20, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Many of our clients who come forward to file a case under the False Claims Act are motivated by a common desire: to right a wrong. While some people think of corporate fraud as a victimless crime, whistleblowers know it is not. They realize that every business decision impacts a human life – that behind […]
Learn MoreOctober 20, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Two groups of Houston-based diagnostic centers have agreed to pay the United States a total of more than $2.6 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Joyce R. Branda for the Department of Justice’s Civil Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson for the Southern District of […]
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