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It’s a yearly spring ritual: college-bound students, young and old, applying online for much-needed federal student aid in the form of grants or loans. Unfortunately, a few unscrupulous individuals view Title IV Federal Student Assistance funding as a way to line...
Photo Credit: CFTC Website On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, the Commodity Future Trading Commission (“CFTC”) announced that it would be making its first award to a whistleblower who reported a fraud through the CFTC’s Whistleblower Program. A $240,000 award will be made an...
More than 90 individuals were charged on Tuesday in a nationwide crackdown against what investigators said was massive fraud in federally administered health-care programs. The defendants were charged with submitting more than $260 million in fraudulent claims to the...
A whistle-blower lawsuit, which was settled for $5 million and dismissed, had accused Tenet of paying kickbacks to doctors in return for patient referrals to its hospitals. By Daniel Chang [email protected] Tenet Healthcare Corp., owner of four Miami-Dade...
Jan Brown with 13th Judicial Circuit Court Judges Catherine McEwen and Emily Peacock It was a proud moment for the James Hoyer Law Firm as paralegal Jan Brown was named the very 1st recipient of the Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Paralegal Award in Florida’s 13th...
The Department of Justice announced today that Amedisys Inc. and its affiliates have agreed to pay $150 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false home healthcare billings to the Medicare...
A long-time advocate of whistleblowers, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is once again taking steps to increase whistleblower protections. On the 25th anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act, Senator Chuck Grassley is announcing his plans to create a Senate...
The Department of Justice announced today that CRC Health Corp. (CRC) has agreed to pay $9.25 million to the federal government and the State of Tennessee to settle allegations that CRC knowingly submitted false claims by providing substandard treatment to adult and...
MONTPELIER — At the suggestion of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, Senate lawmakers will introduce false claims legislation next week targeted at preventing fraud in the state’s health care system. “As we’re moving to a world where the state’s role in health...
Washington D.C., April 4, 2014 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the whistleblower who received the first award under the agency’s new whistleblower program will receive an additional $150,000 payout after the SEC collected additional funds...
