» Kansas City Whistleblower Lawyer Blog
Grassley Follow-up: Letter to Treasury Secretary Geithner and IRS Commissioner Shulman
May 17th, 2012
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
Read More
Grassley Letter to IRS Commissioner
May 10th, 2012
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
Read More
Primer on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
May 3rd, 2012
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
Read More
Whistleblowers and the IRS
April 26th, 2012
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
Read More
Medicare Fraud: Has Anti-Fraud Predictive Modeling been Successful Thus Far?
April 6th, 2012
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
Read More
$25 Billion Agreement Reached on Mortgage Fraud
February 23rd, 2012
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
Read More
Federal Crack Down on Medicare Fraud Reaps Record Recovery of $4.1 Billion
February 16th, 2012
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
Read More
Another Successful Year for Whistleblowing: DOJ Recovers $3 Billion
January 19th, 2012
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
Read More
New SEC Whistleblower Office Helps Foster Uptick in Whistleblower Activity
October 6th, 2011
The new Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Whistleblower opened on August 12, 2011. The new office is responsible for fielding tips received from whistleblowers, enforcing SEC rules and supporting the SEC in determining awards f…
Read More
Read More
SEC Rules in Effect for Whistleblowers
August 25th, 2011
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established a whistleblower program to be adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Specifically, section 922 of the Dodd-Frank act amended the Securities Exchange Act of 19…
Read More
Read More