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Proposed Legislation to Gut Whistleblower Provisions of Dodd-Frank

Proposed Legislation to Gut Whistleblower Provisions of Dodd-Frank Last week, Representative Michael Grimm (R,C-NY) along with House Financial Services Capital Markets Subcommittee Chair Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Rep. John Campbell (R-CA), and Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) introduced new legislation to amend the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. The proposed bill, entitled the Whistleblower Improvement Act...

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Government Sees a Record Surge in Healthcare Fraud Prosecution

Government Sees a Record Surge in Healthcare Fraud Prosecution New statistics released by independent research organization TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) show that the number of health care fraud prosecutions is set for a dramatic rise this year. Syracuse University organization TRAC releases government data obtained from submissions under the Freedom of Information Act. According...

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IRS Concludes 2nd Successful Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative

IRS Concludes 2nd Successful Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative International tax evaders beware: the IRS is cracking down on those who would hide offshore income, and as such are successfully collecting billions of dollars in taxes and penalties.A program introduced in 2009 called the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (OVDI) has obtained 30,000 disclosures since its inception.The...

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U.S. Intervenes in False Claims Act lawsuit against Allied Home Mortgage

U.S. Intervenes in False Claims Act lawsuit against Allied Home Mortgage As reported by Bob Van Voris and Patricia Hurtado here Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp., which last year claimed to be the biggest closely held mortgage broker in the U.S., was sued by federal authorities for alleged fraudulent lending practices. The U.S., by and through the...

Working Overtime As A Mortgage Loan Officer?

Working Overtime As A Mortgage Loan Officer? If you are employed as a mortgage loan officer and are performing “typical mortgage loan officer duties”, you may be entitled to overtime premium pay if you have worked over 40 hours in a workweek. Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division, provided its...

Tax Court Protects Anonymity of Whistleblower 14106-10W

Tax Court Protects Anonymity of Whistleblower 14106-10W Sometimes just the title of the case tells me that I have to write about it. So it goes with Whistleblower 14106-10W, 137 T.C. No. 15. The IRS has had programs to pay informants for a long time. In 2006, though, Congress gave them orders to step up their act...

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Will Pennsylvania Adopt a False Claims Act?

Will Pennsylvania Adopt a False Claims Act? Once again, Pennsylvania legislators have the opportunity to adopt a state False Claims Act. The federal False Claims Act (FCA) was enacted in 1863 to redress fraud perpetrated by companies that sold supplies to the Union Army during the Civil War. Since its enactment, the FCA has been...

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Congress Seeks to Address Employee Misclassification

Congress Seeks to Address Employee Misclassification The Teamsters Union has expressed its support of new legislation introduced in the Senate that may help prevent workers from being misclassified as independent contractors. This new legislation could affect the trucking industry’s use of owner-operators and lease operators. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) stated that “For too long workers...

Choosing a Qui Tam Attorney

Choosing a Qui Tam Attorney While the federal False Claims Act has been on the books for close to a century and a half since the original was passed in 1863, recent amendments and a corresponding increased interest in government prosecutions in these tough economic times has led to a heightened awareness of individuals’ rights...

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Military Contractors: Big Bucks, Big Fraud

Military Contractors: Big Bucks, Big Fraud Most of us are aware of the fact that the U.S. government is using a large number of military contractors in its operations. What many people don’t know, however, is that as of March, 2009, there were more Department of Defense contractors than uniformed personnel in Afghanistan. According to...

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