by Brian Mahany Virtually all of our whistleblower stories relate to the federal False Claims Act. President Lincoln proposed the law during the Civil War as a way of helping the government recover millions of dollars lost to fraud. Bad rations, soggy ammunition and lame mules were just some of the ways private vendors ripped […]
Mahany & Ertl – A Proud Tradition Of Helping Whistleblowers
by Brian Mahany The following is a letter written by Evy Brown, Director of Whistlewatch.org, a leading advocacy group for whistleblowers. Although the letter was previously circulated within the whistleblower community, we have changed the name of the client. The attorney named in this letter is our very own Joe Bird. Joe heads up both […]
SEC Pays First Whistleblower Award
by Brian Mahany One year after the SEC finalized the rules to its new whistleblower program, the Commission’s Claims Review Staff announced its first whistleblower award. An unnamed person received $50,000 for providing information that resulted in a million dollar fine. Some commentators were disappointed with the first award – awards under the false claims […]