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RCG dialysis company pilfered $19.4 million
A federal judge in Tennessee has found that a dialysis company bilked the federal government out of $19.4 million. U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. issued the order against Renal Care Group, Renal Care Group Supply Co. and Fresenius...
University of Chicago researcher finds whistleblowers are best detectors of fraud
Two years ago, this blog reported on a study by a University of Chicago researcher that finds employee whistleblowers detect more corporate fraud than any source of detection. Now Dallas News columnist Will Deener has reviewed the same research by...
Health Care Bill Enhances Whistleblower Protections
As part of the anti-fraud provisions of the health care legislation passed yesterday, Congress strengthened the False Claims Act - one of the most effective whistleblower laws in the United States - in order to ensure that whistleblowers can expose...
OSHA orders reinstatement and $2 million for TNCC CFO
George Fort has won over $2 million in damages and an order of reinstatement to his position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Tennessee Commerce Bank. Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the reinstatement order has immediate effect and will not...
Australian government makes plan for whistleblower protections
The administration of Australia's Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announced plans this week for a new whistleblower law to protect Commonwealth employees. In 2008, the Rudd administration asked Australia's House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (the Committee)...
Will Supreme Court take a swipe at the “cat’s paw”?
A growing trend in employer attempts to evade liability for discrimination is to find a manager with no record of discrimination and use that manager to be the official "decision maker" for firing the employee. Civil rights and whistleblower advocates...
Federal judge awards truck driver $153,870 plus reinstatement
Federal Administrative Law Judge Daniel Leland issued an order yesterday reinstating truck driver Cynthia Ferguson to her job with New Prime, Inc. He also awarded her $26,601 in back pay, $2,269 in compensation for her personal property, $50,000 in compensatory...
Blowing the Whistle on FBI Crime Lab Abuses
The Washington Post and Associated Press are reporting that the Department of Justice failed to properly review more than 100 criminal cases that were prosecuted in the District of Columbia and which were suspected of being tainted by false forensic...
Truthout reports WPEA being “hotlined”
The independent journalism website, truthout.org, is reporting that the Senate is set to "hotline" the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), S. 372. Hotlining is a procedure in which the Senate leaders agree that a bill is uncontroversial and they put...
Maryland “Little FCA” moving forward
WBAL-TV of Baltimore reports that the Maryland legislature is moving forward with a bill to create a "Little FCA" in Maryland. Modeled on the federal False Claims Act (FCA), and looking for the benefits of the Grassley Amendment, Little FCAs...
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