False Claims-Qui Tam

An Oklahoma City specialty hospital, its management group, a physician’s group, and two physicians will pay over $72.3 million to settle allegations of improper payments to physicians under the False Claims Act. The allegations center around a scheme to give...

A USA Today investigation found that hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID-19-related government contracts have gone to vendors previously accused of fraud. In response to the pandemic, the federal government has given out more than $16 billion in coronavirus...

Piedmont Healthcare Inc., a hospital system based in Atlanta, will pay $16 million to settle allegations of False Claims Act violations. A whistleblower brought the case under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, alleging Piedmont Healthcare’s practices...

On July 1, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation agreed to pay $642 million to settle a False Claims Act case brought by a whistleblower. The federal government claims that Novartis knowingly committed two kinds of fraud: first, that they funneled money through...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reinstated a jury’s verdict of over $85 million in a case brought by a whistleblower against Consulate Health Care. As the False Claims Act triples the final amount of damages...

The pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche allegedly defrauded the federal government out of $1.4 billion by falsely representing claims of the drug Tamiflu’s effectiveness and potential in a pandemic, according to a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit unsealed in September of...

In May, the U.S. Second Circuit Appeals Court ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must review a case in which they denied a whistleblower reward claim. Victor Hong was a risk...

On June 12th, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement with Metro Beauty Academy (MBA), a private beauty school located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. MBA will pay $425,000 to resolve allegations of its involvement in a federal student financial...

On June 3, 2020, the DOJ (Department of Justice) published a press release detailing the U.S.'s involvement in a lawsuit against AECOM, an L.A-based architecture, and engineering firm initiated by a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit. The whistleblower, an AECOM Project Specialist Robert...

It is no surprise that fraudsters would exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to cheat the federal government out of millions in relief funds. This was also the case in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  AECOM, a California-based architecture and engineering firm, conspired with...