New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer released a stinging report accusing the city’s Department of Education (DOE) of doling out billions of dollars in contracts without proper oversight. Given our knowledge of corruption in the Empire State, we suspect there are dozens of whistleblower opportunities for insiders with knowledge of education contracts fraud. The report […]
Subprime Auto Loans and Bank Whistleblowers
Hasty loan approvals, shaky underwriting, fraud and rising defaults? Are we talking about the mortgage industry in 2008? No! We are talking about the auto industry in 2017. And that means many opportunities for bank whistleblowers. A little known law called FIRREA offers awards of up to $1.6 million to whistleblowers with inside information about […]
Robocalls – Legal Woes Pile Up as OCWEN Struggles to Placate Homeowners
After facing a myriad of legal challenges for its substandard mortgage servicing, Ocwen is now dealing with yet another kind of class action trouble in connection with its automated calling practices – robocalls. Ocwen’s shoddy loan servicing practices and inappropriate fees have costed many Americans their homes. Investigations by the New York State Department of […]
Politics and Corruption (Archrock Partners / Exterran)
It’s election day in Michigan. That is, election day for many municipal primary elections. The big news around Detroit is the slate of mayoral hopefuls. According media reports, half of the eight candidates are convicted felons. Two of them were charged with assault to commit murder! Thankfully, the political environment in most U.S. communities isn’t […]
New Hospital Medicare Scam? (Hospitalists Post)
Are some hospitals defrauding Medicare by having hospitalists bill for medically unnecessary patient exams? We are currently investigating this practice at a Broward County, Florida hospital and believe it may be occurring elsewhere. Here is the scam in a nutshell… The patient comes into the emergency room and is evaluated by the ER physician. That […]
Investigation and Alert: Guardian Pharmacy Services
The FDA has issued an urgent alert for two eye drugs made by Guardian Pharmacy Services, a Texas based compounding pharmacy. The drugs are compounded Triamicinolone and Moxifloxacin. According to the FDA, serious adverse effects have been reported, including some suggestion of permanent vision loss. Both drugs were made to be injected into a patient’s […]
Well Known REIT Broker Hit for Unethical Practices (Newbridge Securities)
REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) were for a long term the darling of the investment community. While we have nothing against REITs, dishonest and aggressive brokers pedaled them to many people who had no business investing in them. State and federal securities rules say that brokers must make recommendations that are suitable for each particular client. […]
OCWEN Pays $56 Million to Settle With Investors and Faces Foreclosure Disparity Upkeep Suit
2017 may be the year OCWEN was hit with the largest number of individual lawsuits and class actions in the company´s history. Hopefully, it will become the year the subprime mortgage giant lost most of its power over the finances and lives of thousands of Americans. As lawsuits pile up, so do multi-million dollar settlements, […]
Northern California Record
Tele Pay USA actor files class action over allegations she was not paid a minimum wage by Wadi Reformado | Link to original source (206K) An Orlando woman alleges that she earns less than the minimum wage for her work with a national telephone sex-talk purveyor and has filed a class-action complaint. Anne Cannon filed […]
“Rusty Medications”? Vista Pharmaceuticals Whistleblower Post
It’s getting increasingly difficult to know what is in your medicine cabinet. Worse, much of the drugs we take every day are contaminated, under potent or over potent. Sometimes, the drugs we take contain none of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) listed on the label. To be fair, the majority of prescriptions meds on our […]