Mar 30, 2022 | Blog, News and Legal Developments
The launch of the DOJ’s Covid-19 fraud enforcement task force is another example of the government’s increased push to fight against fraud. Jeb White, head of the nonprofit Taxpayers Against Fraud, says the role whistleblowers play in helping recover federal monies is...
Mar 25, 2022 | News and Legal Developments
Law360 (March 24, 2022, 7:22 PM EDT) — Criminal investigators at the Internal Revenue Service said they’ve found $1.8 billion worth of fraudulent loans, credits, payments and other schemes across 660 cases involving money meant for workers, families and...
Mar 14, 2022 | News and Legal Developments, Notable Whistleblower Cases
Law360 (March 11, 2022, 8:49 PM EST) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday that it has awarded $14 million to a whistleblower who published an online report exposing “ongoing fraud” at an undisclosed company, siding with the...
Mar 9, 2022 | News and Legal Developments
Law360 (March 7, 2022, 4:33 PM EST) — South Carolina nuclear fuel reprocessing contractor MOX Services LLC will pay $10 million to settle a federal lawsuit from 2019 alleging that it submitted fraudulent claims to the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S....
Feb 24, 2022 | News and Legal Developments
Law360 (February 23, 2022, 8:52 PM EST) — The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent announcement of a crackdown on cybersecurity-related fraud was designed to get more whistleblowers to come forward, as well as to get more contractors to self-report...
Feb 2, 2022 | Blog, News and Legal Developments
Law360 (February 1, 2022, 8:00 PM EST) — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had secured roughly $5.6 billion in False Claims Act recoveries in 2021, its second-highest FCA haul ever, on the back of billions of dollars in settlements related...
