Nov 2, 2021 | News and Legal Developments
By Al Barbarino Law360 (October 29, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT) — With Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco asserting that compliance monitors will be a key tool in fighting future corporate crime, some attorneys see a policy shift that could help curb some of the...
Oct 29, 2021 | News and Legal Developments
BY MATT ROBINSON AND BLOOMBERG On September 15, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission awarded $110 million to a tipster whose information resulted in enforcement actions, bringing total payments under the agency’s whistleblower program to more than $1...
Oct 29, 2021 | News and Legal Developments
By John McCabe, of Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund The False Claims Act and the mechanism that incentivizes integrity by rewarding whistleblowers who come forward with information about fraud on the government, is a great investment. How good is the rate of...
Oct 29, 2021 | News and Legal Developments
WASHINGTON – On the 35th Anniversary of the 1986 False Claims Amendments Act, which modernized the Lincoln-era law, Taxpayers Against Fraud, the nation’s leading advocacy organization dedicated to fighting fraud against taxpayers, urged Members of the Senate Judiciary...
Jan 19, 2021 | News and Legal Developments
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on January 12, 2021, the first civil settlement to resolve allegations of fraud against the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.[1] SlideBelts Inc. Read...
Jan 14, 2021 | News and Legal Developments
The Department of Justice obtained more than $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2020, Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the...
