Earlier this month, a federal judge in Philadelphia sentenced Aleksandr N. Zagorodny, 40, to 78 months in prison for a health care fraud scheme involving MedEx Ambulance, Inc. He was the former president of the business. His brother, Sergey Zagorodny, 36, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his involvement in the health care […]
Generation W Whistleblowers See Themselves As Part of the Solution
Ed Note: The following article is reprinted here courtesy of whistlewatch.org. We are proud supporters of both “Generation W” whistleblowers (to quote the post) and whistlewatch.org, a 501(c)3 nonprofit whistleblower advocacy group. We are also proud of our efforts to help whistleblowers in false claims act and IRS whistleblower actions collect the maximum rewards possible. […]
3 Whistleblowers Receive Awards in Hedge Fund Scam
The Securities & Exchange Commission announced 3 whistleblowers would be receiving approximately $125,000 for providing information about a hedge fund scam. The 3 provided helped the SEC shut down Locust Offshore Management and its CEO, Andrey Hicks. Hicks was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison on related criminal fraud charges. Although it did not […]
Wisconsin Lawyer & Physician Sanctioned in Medicaid Fraud Case
A Wisconsin lawyer and physician have both been admonished for their actions in a Medicaid fraud case (whistleblower suit) pending in a Milwaukee federal court. The lawyer on the case, Rebecca Geitman, was ordered to pay attorneys fees of $26,000. Those sanctions and fee awards unfortunately threaten to overshadow the larger and important legal issues […]
Recruiting Whistleblowers!
January 24th, 2012. President Obama addressed the nation in his State of the Union speech and told Americans that those responsible for the housing market crash would be held responsible. While few bankers have been sent to prison – and none from America’s “Too Big To Jail” banks – whistleblowers have helped the Justice Department […]
Anatomy of a False Claims Act Lawsuit
Recently we wrote about the record false claims act (whistleblower) award paid to pharmacist T. Mark Jones an his company Ven-A-Care. The sheer size of the awards – $597,000,000.00 is itself newsworthy and an inspiration to whistleblowers everywhere. Every time we write about a false claims act case, we get questions from readers. In this […]
America Needs Whistleblowers
In recent months we have railed against the lack of criminal prosecutions tied to the economic meltdown. While tens of millions of Americans remain unemployed (or underemployed / working for significantly less pay / upside down on their mortgages), no executives from America’s Too Large To Fail, Too Large To Jail banks are behind bars. […]
Pharmacists Hit Whistleblower Lottery – Collects $597 Million!
The average Joe buys the occasional Powerball ticket hoping to win a few million bucks. T. Mark Jones, a pharmacist from Key West, decided to roll up his sleeves and become a whistleblower. His investigation of Big Pharma’s overbilling schemes saved taxpayers $3 billion dollars and earned $597,000,000.00 in whistleblower award money. Some say “crime […]
Whistleblower Opportunities – Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Jail Revisited
Every know and then we check back on our “friends,” America’s too big to fail banking behemoths. Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase. Usually when we write a new post its because Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been on the warpath and was able to extract more silence and stuttering from the […]
"No Prescription Equals False Claims"
“No prescription equals false claims,” that was part of warning issued by PharMerica’s own auditor after finding that many of the company’s were sending out drugs without a written prescription. Last Friday’s false claims act suit filed by the Justice Department in Milwaukee comes as no surprise. New details show the pharmacy giant was warned […]
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