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A study published this week found that China could have prevented 95 percent of coronavirus infections if its measures to contain the outbreak had begun sooner. The research from the University of Southampton suggests that Chinese officials should have listened to the coronavirus...

The Department of Justice’s new initiative targeting criminally negligent nursing homes creates a unique opportunity, under the False Claims Act, for whistleblowers operating in the skilled nursing industry. DOJ launched the National Nursing Home Initiative on March 3 but said it had...

False Claims Act litigants are anticipating a decision from the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a case concerning the taxation of e-discovery costs in a False Claims Act case. The issue at hand is what costs winning...

The whistleblower from a political consulting firm involved in harvesting data to manipulate social media during the 2016 election, says Americans should be "scared" about the potential degree of online meddling in November. In an interview with the Washington Post, former...

Ohio-based pharmaceutical company Cardinal Health has agreed to pay $8.8 million to resolve charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). According to a statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), employees of Cardinal Health’s former Chinese...

Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (“PHS”) officers are on the front lines of protecting the American people from Coronavirus.  They work in critical health and safety agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control.  Unfortunately, most Americans (and Members of Congress)...

U.S. prosecutors recently unsealed charges against three executives who were involved in a bribery and money laundering scheme that violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The executives bribed Indonesian officials to win a contract for a power project over...

A whistleblower who warned the city of San Diego about “life-threatening” conditions in a city-owned downtown high-rise claims he was ignored by supervisors. Civil engineer Marlon Perez described dangerous conditions in a Feb. 4, 2020 letter, such as a high...

Last week, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) demanding answers on the recent whistleblower report that the HHS sent untrained workers to two Coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine sites. According to...

The lawyers for WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning have renewed the effort to get the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst out of prison. Manning, now incarcerated for a year after refusing to appear before a federal grand jury, is being fined...