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During the summer of 2008, a move by Federal prosecutors that was not publicized much outside of the legal community, led to newly relaxed guidelines for charging corporations with crimes. Not surprisingly, these new rules were good news for banks an… Read More

Final rules regarding the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act have been released by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The rules are effective as of August 12, 2011 and will apply retroactively to whistleblower tips made since Ju… Read More

Forty years to the day that the New York Times began publication of the Pentagon Papers, Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, writes an enlightening article in the Times about our founding fathers and their a… Read More

It is estimated that health care fraud carries about a $60 billion a year price tag for taxpayers, with Medicare as one of the main targets for fraudsters. The Medicare program now faces huge financial challenges, including possible insolvency. As su… Read More

The “too-big-to-fail” problem is defined as the government using taxpayer dollars to rescue “systemically important” banks. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that regulatory reform would fail if it did not contemplate… Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved rules that will entitle whistleblowers to receive 10 to 30 percent of the money they help the SEC collect through enforcement actions. The SEC has rejected requests by business groups to requi… Read More

Representative Michael Grimm, R., N.Y. plans to introduce legislation whereby employees would not be eligible for a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) bounty program unless they first report the wrongdoing to their company. If the SEC determine… 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