Posts Tagged whistleblower retaliation
Alaska Whistleblower Wins $3.5 Million In Retaliation Claim
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on April 20, 2013
by Brian Mahany In a perfect world, companies would reward whistleblowers. In my law firm, for example, I would want to know if someone was stealing or breaking the law. Unfortunately, in these tough economic times, some businesses intentionally cut corners and whistleblowers in those companies often face retaliation. Congress and most states have said [...]
Whistleblower Opportunities Abound – Medicaid Fraud At All Time High
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on April 6, 2013
by Brian Mahany With all the press and media attention on big whistleblower case these days, one would think that fraud would soon go the way of smallpox, it would be eradicated. Unfortunately, as long as greed continues in our society, so will fraud. A couple weeks ago, Congress’ House Committee on Oversight and Government [...]
Mahany & Ertl File Amicus Brief In Important Whistleblower Protection Case
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on March 26, 2013
by Brian Mahany Buried in the Federal Register last week was an invitation to file amicus briefs in the current Merit Systems Protection Board case, Barbara King vs. Department of the Air Force. Partner Joe Bird and Mahany & Ertl are proud to represent Barbara in her pursuit of justice. At stake is the critical issue [...]
Company’s Attempt To Force Arbitration of Whistleblowers Claims Shot Down
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on March 20, 2013
by Brian Mahany Arbitration clauses are where many of the big legal battles are being waged these days. Employers and businesses want to force workers to arbitrate their claims. While there are sometimes advantages to arbitration, in many cases the arbitration clauses are biased against workers. We don’t automatically disfavor arbitration, however it has to [...]
IRS Agent May Be Headed To Prison For Info Leak – Whistleblower Protection
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on March 14, 2013
by Brian Mahany Last September, we reported on the arrest of Dennis Lerner, a former IRS agent. Prosecutors said that he had become a bit too cozy with a company he was auditing. Service employees are bound by strict confidentiality rules that prohibit disclosures of confidential tax information. When the story first broke, Lerner was [...]
More News On Phone Subsidy Mess – Whistleblower Opportunity
Posted by admin in Legal Malpractice on February 19, 2013
by Brian Mahany Just one week ago we posted an article about the developing controversy with the federal cellphone Lifeline program. A report first published in the Wall Street Journal said that as many as 41% of the 6 million participants in the program may not meet federal eligibility guidelines. This number was based on [...]
Cell Phone Lifeline Program Great Whistleblower Opportunity
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on February 13, 2013
by Brian Mahany Today’s Wall Street Journal says it all. Millions of Americans illegally claimed eligibility to the Lifeline program. Now that the FCC has cracked down on the the eligibility guidelines and misspending, the question becomes who to blame. Is it solely the fault of greedy program participants who lied on applications or did [...]
IRS Whistleblower Program May Be Gutted – Immediate Action Required
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery, Tax on February 6, 2013
by Evy Brown [Ed Note: This post is being reprinted in its entirety by request of the author, attorney Evy Brown. Evy runs whistlewatch.org, a whistleblower advocacy group that we fully support. Because our firm devotes much of its energies to whistleblower case, we are deeply concerned by the proposal. Our IRS whistleblower, SEC 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 [...]
Mahany & Ertl – A Proud Tradition Of Helping Whistleblowers
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on December 11, 2012
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 [...]
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