Five students have filed a class action lawsuit against for profit Globe University after an earlier whistleblower case resulted in a $395,000 judgment against the school. The students claim the university misleads prospective students and lies about job placement rates. Earlier this summer, a former dean of the school, Heidi Weber, won a $395,000 judgment after […]
"Corruption Part Of County Business" – Whistleblower Post
The front page headline in this morning’s Atlanta Journal Constitution says it all – Grand Jury: Corruption Part of County Business. Some would say we are becoming immune to government corruption but thankfully most people are still outraged. A special grand jury in suburban Atlanta conducted a year long investigation and found corruption at all […]
PharMerica Whistleblower Suits – (Some Companies Just Don’t Learn)
[Updated through 2020] We originally wrote this post in August 2013. That is when the federal government filed suit against PharMerica Corp, a major long-term care pharmacy. The lawsuit was originally begun in 2009 by a former PharMerica employee turned whistleblower. Eleven years and 31.5 million later, the company still hasn’t learned its lesson. That […]
Defense Contractor Whistleblower Gets $1.8 Award
A former project manager for Science Applications International was awarded $1.8 million for exposing a massive overbilling scheme according to an AP story carried in the Ventura County Star. Prosecutors claimed the company over charged the government for homeland security training programs. Science Applications is a Virginia based defense contractor that employs over 40,000 people […]
Why We Need Whistleblowers
by Brian Mahany Several months ago I wrote a story while sitting in an airport hotel in Pittsburgh. It was of a local physician who stood up to corrupt medical practices. Dr. Tullio Emanuele claimed other doctors were performing unnecessary cardiac patients on patients just to collect Medicare and insurance money. By being a whistleblower […]
Bloomberg Reports That CitiMortgage Whistleblower Paid $31 Million
by Brian Mahany We have been following the several federal false claims act cases brought by the United States Attorney in Manhattan. It’s no secret that we represent the whistleblower in the largest of those cases. Earlier this year, the government intervened in a case brought by a Citi V.P. in Missouri, Sherry Hunt. We […]
Whistleblower Claims Sprint – Nextel Owes NY $300 Million In Back Taxes
by Brian Mahany Wireless giant Sprint – Nextel has been accused of defrauding New York tax authorities out of $100,000,000. Under New York’s false claim law, the phone company could also be liable for treble (triple) damages and legal fees. The case is the first whistleblower case filed in the state over aleged unpaid taxes. […]
Medicare Fraud – The Quiet Crime of Physicians
Since taking on the Wall Street establishment and corrupt mortgage bankers, we have received an email from a former health care worker asking why we don’t take cases against physicians who “abuse” the Medicare program. Although most doctors are honest, like all professions there are always some who try to game the system and collect […]