Posts Tagged Minnesota whistleblower
For Profit Colleges – Next Big Opportunity For Whistleblowers (False Claims Act)
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on January 20, 2013
by Brian Mahany The feature article in this month’s Milwaukee magazine was intriguing. There are up to 40 for profit colleges (sometimes called proprietary schools) in the Milwaukee area and many of them have abysmal track records. High costs and little prospect of a paying job at the end of 2 or 4 years of [...]
Whistleblowers Claim That Deutsche Bank Hid Billions In Losses
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on December 8, 2012
by Brian Mahany In yet another chapter in the tales of the banks deemed “too big to fail,” 3 former employees of Deutsche Bank have come forward and accused the banking giant of intentionally hiding billions of dollars of trading losses from regulators. During the height of the financial crisis, the bank’s CEO was quoted [...]
Feds Jail Physician For Medicare Fraud – New Opportunity For Whistleblowers
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on November 22, 2012
by Brian Mahany Dr. Jonathan Agbebiyi, age 63, is going to spend his golden years in a federal penitentiary. A federal judge in Michigan sentenced him earlier this month to 60 months in prison for his role in a $5.4 million Medicare fraud. He was convicted of 6 counts of health care fraud. Prosecutors proved [...]
Feds Claim $1.5 Billion In Nursing Home Overbilling – Opportunity For Whistleblowers
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on November 15, 2012
by Brian Mahany The Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services released a report last week that claims nursing homes overcharge Medicare by more than $1 billion annually. In a random sample of billing claims, approximately 25% were incorrect according to the report. The largest percentage of error was tied to upcharging [...]
Bloomberg Reports That CitiMortgage Whistleblower Paid $31 Million
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on June 3, 2012
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 [...]
Seeking Information – Force Placed Insurance
Posted by admin in Foreclosure Defense, Fraud Recovery on May 29, 2012
by Brian Mahany Unless you are in the banking industry or have fallen behind in your mortgage payments, most people don’t understand the term “force placed insurance.” For those in the know, it is the financial industry’s dirty little secret. A condition of almost every mortgage loan is that the homeowner must keep insurance on [...]
Latest Healthcare Fraud – Personal Care Attendants
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on May 27, 2012
by Brian Mahany When I saw an article about personal care assistants fraud put out by the Healthcare Fraud Shield organization, I immediately thought of PCA’s stealing from the elderly and infirm. While that is a huge problem nationwide, apparently there is a cottage industry of personal care providers that overbill Medicaid, charge for services [...]
Government Settles Deutsche Bank Mortgage Fraud Case
Posted by admin in Foreclosure Defense, Fraud Recovery on May 18, 2012
by Brian Mahany It’s easy to think there is no justice in the world, just turn on TV and watch the evening news. Every now and then, however, the good guys win. In the case of Deutsche Bank and MortgageIT, taxpayers will soon get back $202,000,000. In May of last year, the U.S. Attorney in [...]
State Whistleblower Laws Offer A Second Shot Of Earning Big Bucks
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on May 11, 2012
by Brian Mahany The grand daddy of federal false claims act cases (whistleblower law) is HUD’s $2.4 billion case brought against Allied Home Mortgage. That is music to our ears since our firm represents the whistleblower in that case. Although we are aware of other billion dollar cases right now, very few are brought in local [...]
Whistleblower Claims Sprint – Nextel Owes NY $300 Million In Back Taxes
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on May 5, 2012
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. [...]
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