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High-level cooperation and coordination among several government enforcement agencies paved the way toward an unprecedented joint federal-state settlement related to abusive practices by mortgage servicers. A $25 billion agreement with Bank of Americ… Read More

New fraud monitoring tools implemented by federal authorities in order to crack down on healthcare fraud are paying off. Reports indicate that a record $4.1 billion was recovered and returned to Medicare Trust Funds, the Treasury and other department… Read More

For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) recovered more than $3 billion under the False Claims Act. Of this amount, recoveries for fraud against US health care programs amounted to $2.4 billion. This is the 2n… Read More

A federal whistleblower, Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse, has just won a major victory with the U.S. District Court in Washington. On Monday, July 25th, the court approved an award to Greenhouse in the amount of $970,000, which represents fu… Read More

A civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court seeks to recover alleged damages from Deutsche Bank AG related to mortgages that were insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The lawsuit was filed under the False Claims Ac… Read More

At the beginning of February, the Department of Justice, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services, released a number of statistics regarding qui tam cases filed under the False Claims Act. As of January 4, 2011 there were 1,341… Read More

Health Care and Government contractor fraud can potentially bankrupt America’s health care benefit programs and defense funds. These actions only enrich those committing the fraud. The damages can be staggering and the ongoing actions of many p… Read More

Today (February 3, 2011) The Wall Street Journal reports that the attorneys general in California and Virginia are investigating whether banks overcharged public pension funds by tens of millions of dollars for foreign-exchange transactions. Other st… Read More