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If you have information that your employer is committing fraud against the government, you might be considering filing a whistleblower claim. If you want to be a whistleblower but you’re concerned that you might be fired or face other forms of… Read More

Iowa Senator Charles Grassley has been getting a lot of press lately. As Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he played a prominent role in the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Grassley will continue to be in the spotlight durin… Read More

In Fiscal Year 2016, the Department of Justice (DOJ) recovered more than $4.7 billion from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government. This recovery of taxpayer dollars was due, in large part, to changes made to the False Cla… Read More

An August 2016 decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals revived a Medicare Advantage Fraud case that had been pronounced dead by a California district court in 2013. In 2013, a central California district court dismissed a federal whistleblower… Read More

The False Claims Act (the FCA) provides for rewards to private citizens for filing a lawsuit as a whistleblower with information that results in the federal government recovering ill-gotten gains from unscrupulous companies at taxpayer expense. If th… Read More

In two decisions, issued less than a week apart, the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) made clear that the use of severance agreements to silence whistleblowers will not be tolerated. Read More

Medicare and Medicaid fraud is rampant, costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars a year. In an effort to combat fraudulent billing practices, CMS (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has instituted efforts to prevent medical billing fra… Read More

In an important decision under the False Claims Act, on June 16, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision that will allow claims under a theory called "implied false certification." Under the theory, service providers can face… Read More