Crop anonymous patriot showing flag of United Stated of America

Sunoco Inc. Agrees To Pay $675,000.00 To Settle FLSA Action

Sunoco Inc. Agrees To Pay $675,000.00 To Settle FLSA Action Egan Young, Attorneys-at-Law, is pleased to announce final approval of a $675,000.00 dollar settlement with Sunoco, Inc. to resolve a collective action lawsuit brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) on behalf of 488 current and/or former unionized operations and laboratory workers in Philadelphia,...

Washington DC Capitol Building where whistleblower statutes have been discussed, representing whistleblower protections and the CHOICE Act

Government Settles $158 Million Mortgage Fraud Suit With Citigroup

Government Settles $158 Million Mortgage Fraud Suit With Citigroup This past week, Citigroup Inc. came to a $158 million settlement with the Justice Department over the Mortgage division’s fraudulent loan origination and lending practices. Thanks to the work of a courageous whistleblower, the government was able to hold Citigroup accountable. The settlement here comes on...

Spilled Bottle of Yellow Capsule Pills, representing drug Fraud and off-label marketing abuse

Dava Pharmaceuticals Defrauds Medicaid of Millions

Dava Pharmaceuticals Defrauds Medicaid of Millions This past week, Dava Pharmaceuticals Inc. reached an $11 million settlement with the Justice Department over False Claims Act allegations in their Medicaid prescription drug program. The allegations against Dava included underpayment of their rebate obligations under the Medicaid Prescription Drug Rebate program by mislabeling their products. Pharmaceutical companies...

Low Angle View of Office Building Against Clear Sky, representing whistleblower award.

Media Overlooks Defense False Claims Case

Media Overlooks Defense False Claims Case In today’s world, false claims cases brought against companies that are worth millions of dollars are often overshadowed by those that are worth billions. This was certainly so with a recent case involving national security and defense issues. The $4.3 million settlement announced last month between Boeing and the...

Congress Exploring More Efficient Whistleblower Statutes

Congress Exploring More Efficient Whistleblower Statutes On January 27th, Richard Miller, the Senior Labor Advisor to Congressman George Miller, held a conference call with several prominent qui tam attorneys to discuss the possibility of changes to the current statutes on private sector whistleblower and qui tam lawsuits. One of the participants was Brandon Lauria, an...

Red White and Yellow Medication Pills, representing addiction treatment

FDA Caught Spying on Potential Whistleblowers

FDA Caught Spying on Potential Whistleblowers Last week, it was revealed that litigation was filed against the Food and Drug Administration for conducting secret monitoring and surveillance activities of its own employees, scientists, and doctors. Many personal employee files and e-mails were gathered by the FDA in response to communications with Congress about unsafe medical...

Bank buildings, representing Citigroup Accused of Spoofing

Bank of America Settles Billion Dollar Mortgage Fraud Case

Bank of America Will Pay over $1 Billion for Reckless Behavior On February 9, 2012, the Justice Department announced the settlement of one of the largest False Claims Act cases relating to mortgage fraud in history. Bank of America (BOA) and its Countrywide Financial Subsidiaries will have to pay upwards of $1 billion for reckless...

Close up of books - False Claims Act and whistleblower immunity

Grimm’s Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011

Grimm’s Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011 The proposed H.R. 2483, known as The Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011 is poised to move through congress this year, and was recently approved by a subpanel of the House Financial Services Committee.It is now under consideration by the full committee.The bill, introduced in July 2011 by Rep. Michael...

Closeup of Scientist Looking Through Microscope in a Lab - for article on Novartis

Whistleblowers Provide Backbone to Case Against Healthcare Fraud

Whistleblowers Provide Backbone to Case Against Healthcare Fraud On Thursday, September 1, the Department of Justice reported that the United States government had settled a False Claims case with Janzen, Johnston & Rockwell Emergency Medicine Management Services Inc. (JJ&R), which is a provider of billing services for physicians, hospitals and other health care providers. JJ&R...

A Papers with Coins and Mobile Phone on the Side, representing whistleblower contracts

Fear of Political Pressure Influences IRS Resistance to Whistleblower Cases

Fear of Political Pressure Influences IRS Resistance to Whistleblower Cases In recent years, whistleblower cases have proven to be essential to the battle against tax fraud in the United States. In 2006, Congress passed a provision that would allow citizens to file claims with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to recover lost tax revenue that...

Category: News