Record Recoveries under False Claims Act
The Justice Department confirmed in a release issued on December 4 that it has been a record year for ...
Tag: False Claims Act
NYC Council to Vote on Whistleblower Bills
Today, the New York City Council will vote on three whistleblower laws. I had the opportunity to testify about these ...
DOJ Backs Ink Company Whistleblower
Last week the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit brought against an ink manufacturer ...
Grassley Calls for Improvements to IRS Whistleblower Office
Yesterday, Senator Grassley (R-IA) released a letter sent to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman concerning the progress of ...
IRS Guidelines Discourage Whistleblowers
Today, Tax Analysts published an article about how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines can result in whistleblower awards being unfairly ...
Whistleblower Trial Against Blackwater Begins
In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe ...
NWC Asks Plaintiffs Not To Appeal ACLU v. Holder Decision
The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) today asked the three plaintiffs in the court case ACLU et al. v. Holder not ...
Appeals Court to Rule Shortly on Constitutional Attack Challenging Key Whistleblower Provision of the False Claims Act
Last year alone, the U.S. government recovered over $3.1 billion as a result of FCA claims filed by whistleblowers under ...
Justice Department Considering Using False Claims Act to Recover Losses in Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Assistant Attorney General Tony West confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice was "considering all avenues of redress against the ...
NWC Hosts Seminar on Dodd-Frank Reform & the False Claims Act
On Friday, July 23, 2010, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) hosted a seminar on the False Claims Act that included ...
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