Two False Claims Act Settlements to Close Out January 2022
The False Claims Act was enacted in 1863 in an effort to root out fraud and corruption during the Civil...
Ana Popovich
Latvia Passes Whistleblower Law in Accordance with EU Whistleblower Directive
On January 20, Latvia passed into national law a whistleblower law, in accordance with the October 2019 European Union whistleblowing...
DOJ Releases FY2021 False Claims Act Stats, Whistleblower Payouts Continue to Dip
In the 2021 Fiscal Year (FY), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained more than $1.6 billion from qui tam...
Healthcare Company and Owner to Resolve FCA Allegations; Two Whistleblowers to Receive Awards
Clayton Deardorff and his company Stepping Stones Healthcare, LLC (SSH) will pay $589,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the...
The Bulletproof Man & the Whistleblower Who Took Him Down
2nd Chance, a documentary directed by Ramin Bahrani that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, documents...
Facebook Whistleblowers, Dozens of Organizations Call on Facebook to Release Human Rights Report
Calls for accountability at Facebook continue as whistleblowers Frances Haugen and Sophie Zhang, former Facebook Vice President Brian Boland, and...
U.S. Treasury Whistleblower Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards Released from Prison
Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, whose disclosures about Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury made up...
DoD OIG Releases FY 2021 Whistleblower Program Data
On January 19, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021...
Jamaica’s Auditor General’s Department Received High Number of Whistleblower Complaints in 2021
Jamaica’s Auditor General’s Department recently published its Annual Report 2021, which breaks down financial transactions and statements of the Jamaican...
Diabetic Shoe Company to Pay $5.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations; Whistleblower to be Rewarded
Florida-based Foot Care Store, Inc. d/b/a Dia-Foot, a diabetic shoe company, along with President and CEO Robert Gaynor, agreed to...
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