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December 5, 2013 — Our nation’s Medicare program is inundated each year with fraudulent claims filed by physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and even ambulance service providers. To confront the problem, the U.S. Department of Justice relies on tips from health care workers themselves. The federal False Claims Act includes qui tam provisions that allow conscientious tipsters to tackle the...

December 4, 2013 — Many who work in the financial and securities industries frequently learn about confidential insider information that could be misused to turn a personal profit. Trading on material, nonpublic information, however, is a crime. To tackle the problem of illegal insider trading, the U.S. Congress established a whistleblower program, as outlined in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street...

December 3, 2013 — The Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Office first came about as a result of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006. The Office provides tipsters who have information about tax fraud with the means to notify the government. Informants who collaborate with the IRS may be eligible to receive financial rewards that range from 15 to 30 percent of the funds the...

December 2, 2013 — To combat fraud in the securities industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relies on tips received through the agency’s whistleblower office. Created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) of 2010, the whistleblower program gives tipsters from within the securities industry, and others with unique information, the...

November 27, 2013 — At times, the government uncovers False Claims Act violations in the health care field without help from insiders. Quite often, however, the government acts on a tip from a conscientious whistleblower working within the field. The False Claims Act’s qui tam language enables tipsters to fight fraud directly by filing a claim in federal court on behalf of the...

November 26, 2013 — Each year, the U.S. Department of Justice counts on tips from conscientious whistleblowers to recoup millions in tax dollars that could otherwise be lost to fraudsters engaged in Medicare scams. The qui tam language incorporated in the False Claims Act gives inside employees the tools they need to help protect us all from fraud in the health care industry. In return for...

November 25, 2013 — Our nation’s Medicare program is burdened each year with false claims filed by hospitals, doctors, pharmacies and ambulance companies. To redress the problem, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) depends on tips from health care industry insiders. The federal False Claims Act contains qui tam provisions that empower conscientious tipsters to combat fraud themselves by...

November 22, 2013 — The Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Office was put into place by the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 to give tipsters with information about tax fraud a clear path to notify the IRS. Whistleblowers who collaborate with the government may be eligible for financial rewards ranging from 15 to 30 percent of the amount the government recovers. When...

November 21, 2013 — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has launched an attack on the government’s use of the False Claims Act to fight the rampant abuses engaged in by government contractors that bilk U.S. taxpayers out of millions of dollars every year. The qui tam provisions of the federal False Claims Act allow whistleblowers to stop fraudulent claims against the government by bringing a...

November 20, 2013 — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has awarded over $14 million to a whistleblower who notified the agency about a scam against investors in the securities industry. Based on information provided by the tipster, the SEC was able to recoup substantial funds for investors. This is the largest award made thus far since the SEC’s whistleblower program began in...