False Claims-Qui Tam

C.R. Bard Inc agreed to pay the United States $48.26 million to resolve claims that it knowingly caused false claims to be submitted to the Medicare. Julie Darity, a former contracts administration officer for Bard, will receive $10,134,600 as her...

District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced the "False Claims Act of 2013," which will amend the D.C. False Claims Act to permit whistleblowers to bring tax-related fraud claims. If enacted into law, the bill would permit whistleblowers to seek...

  The Justice Department confirmed in a release issued on December 4 that it has been a record year for recoveries from the False Claims Act.  In fact 2012 garnered the DOJ the “largest annual recovery in Department history.” Most...

Kathleen Sharp's book about pharmaceutical whistleblower Mark Duxbury will be released in paperback on September 1, 2012. It is Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever. I had the pleasure of interviewing journalist Kathleen...

Washington, DC, attorney Steven N. Berk wrote the following in his blog, The Corporate Observer. He has generously given permission for us to repost it here: To many, whistleblowers are akin to lottery winners; just plain lucky. If you complain...

Today, the New York City Council will vote on three whistleblower laws. I had the opportunity to testify about these three bills on April 16th this year before the Committee on Governmental Affairs. The NWC supports the NYC Council's efforts...

Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of whistleblower Michael Davis and overturned the limitation of that Court's decision in United States ex rel. Findley v. FPC-Boron Employees’ Club,...

Whistleblower Dr. Kenneth Jones and his wife Priscilla Jones won an appeal yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In vacating a summary judgment, the Court held that Jones presented sufficient evidence of fraud to require...

Last week the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit brought against an ink manufacturer for skirting the payment of import duties. The case against Toyo Ink is still in its early stages, but government...

Federal and state officials have announced a $25 billion settlement with the America's five largest mortgage servicers, an agreement that would not be possible without contributions from employees who first exposed the banks' wrongdoing. How many whistleblowers were there, and...