Last September, Senator Chuck Grassley wrote a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman detailing his disappointment of how poorly the agency was using whistleblower provisions available to them under the False Claims Act. The… Read More

As we have discussed in our previous article, Whistleblowers and the IRS, the IRS is often reluctant to utilize the whistleblower provisions available to them under the False Claims Act. This apparent reluctance has come to the attention of an import… Read More

What Is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 was passed in response to scandals in the mid 1970s that exposed over 400 U.S. companies that had been making payments to foreign government officials to facilitate… Read More

On average, there is a $450 billion annual gap between the taxes that are owed to the federal government and the taxes that are actually paid. In theory, those who help the government find those who cheat on taxes and contribute to the shortfall shou… Read More

In April of last year, our unpaid overtime lawfirm, Brady & Associates, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court on behalf of workers Paz Sanchez and Elvis Posadas against Creekstone Farms Premium Beef. Ms. Sanchez and Mr. Posadas were designat… Read More

Workers in slaughterhouses face hard and relentless work. According to statistics, the meatpacking industry is one of the most dangerous industries. The stats reveal that it has the highest injury rate of any industry, including five times the nation… Read More

Last summer, the Brady & Associates Whistleblower Blog published an article that described the new Medicare fraud detection system implemented by the government to detect potential health care fraud before it occurs. The statistical modeling syst… Read More

Most employers are required to pay time and a half to non-exempt employees for any work performed over forty hours in a workweek. One exception is the fluctuating workweek (FWW) method of paying overtime, known to many workers as “Chinese overt… Read More