A private contractor doing work on a multibillion Department of Energy product has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve claims that it falsely presented two subcontractors as HUBZone small businesses. The claims also involved falsely designating a subcontractor as a woman owned small business. The case was brought by a whistleblower who will receive […]
Hundreds of Unlicensed Stem Cell Clinics
An investigation by the Arizona Republic found 238 unlicensed stem cell clinics. That is just in Arizona! If you extrapolate that figure it suggests there are 10,731 unlicensed clinics nationwide! How is this possible? There are many reasons. The stem cell business is still the wild, wild west. The FDA has jurisdiction but simply doesn’t […]
New AML $79 Million Settlement – Julius Baer
New Reward Opportunities for Bank Money Laundering Whistleblowers The Justice Department announced that Swiss bank, Julius Baer & Co admitted in court that it conspired to launder $36 million in bribes to soccer officials with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). As part of the court proceedings, Julius Baer entered into a three year […]
$600 Billion Each Year in Unpaid Taxes – IRS Whistleblower Post
How would you like to pay 15% less taxes? If everyone paid their fair share you could according to the IRS. A new report indicates that wealthy Americans withhold over $600 billion each year in taxes. Over the next decade the amount of unpaid taxes will exceed $7 trillion. (IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig claims that […]
Non Sterile Medical Devices? (Whistleblower Rewards Post)
Dirty Dental Appliances and Non Sterile Surgical Instruments? Yikes! [Post updated May 2021] When we first wrote this post, it was to report about the Detroit Medical Center. Now a Pennsylvania hospital system is getting fined for filthy dental tools. We can’t believe that well into the 21st century hospitals can’t seem to grasp the […]
Affinity Fraud – How to Avoid Becoming the Next Victim
According to Investopedia, affinity fraud is a type of investment fraud in which a con artist targets members of an identifiable group based on things such as race, age, religion, etc. The fraudster either is or pretends to be, a member of the group. These schemes work because the victims are more likely to trust […]
Medicare Fraud Involving False LSCW Qualifications
Recently we wrote about a false certifications case in South Carolina. Doctor’s Care and its management company agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle charges that they billed for doctors and nurses not certified by Medicare. Today we write about a new case where the government intervened in a case alleging that Connections Community Support […]
Houston Lawyer Indicted for Tax Fraud – IRS Whistleblower Opportunity
Last month a prominent Houston lawyer was indicted for facilitating a multi-million dollar tax fraud. Federal prosecutors say that Carlos Kepke conspired with a billionaire hedge fund manager and defrauded the IRS of taxes on $225,000,000.00 in capital gains. According to the indictment, from 1999 to 2014, Kepke helped hedge fund owner Robert Smith “create […]
Cryptocurrency Scams and Cryptocurrency Investment Losses
As I rewrite this post (April 2021), most of the major cryptocurrencies are at record highs. But the volatility in these investments also remains at record levels. That means you could see a huge gain in just 24 hours or see your retirement savings wiped out within a day. We have nothing against folks investing […]
Doctor, Do No Harm – Dentist Charged with Breaking Teeth
One of the primary tenets of the Hippocratic Oath is the promise to “do no harm.” Evidently a dentist outside of Milwaukee never got that memo. Recently a Wisconsin federal grand jury indicted Dr. Scott Charmoli and charged him with chipping healthy teeth of his patients simply so he could apply expensive crowns. According to […]