Whistleblower News
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Whistleblower Suit Involving Alzheimer's Grant to Proceed
May 17, 2012
By Megan Brooks - Medscape Today
May 17, 2012 — In reversing a lower court's decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a whistleblower lawsuit brought against 2 Boston hospitals and 2 Alzheimer's disease (AD) researchers accused of falsifying data to obtain a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant worth $15 million can proceed to trial.
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Federal Judge Greenlights $11 Bil. Whistleblower Suit
May 17, 2012
By Saranac Hale Spencer - The Legal Intelligencer
A federal judge in Western Pennsylvania has refused to dismiss a qui tam suit alleging that Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corp., which runs more than 100 campuses, defrauded the federal government of $11 billion in federal student aid by violating the terms of the Higher Education Act, which bars the distribution of incentives to college recruiters based on the number of students they draw.
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State Passes New Whistleblower Protection Law
May 14, 2012
By Steve Berman – Hagens Berman/Seattle PI Blog
A couple of years ago, CBS’ 60 Minutes conducted an investigation into Medicare and Medicaid fraud in Florida. The story included some shocking findings: fraud is rampant, hard to detect and costs taxpayers to the tune of at least $60 billion every year.
One person profiled in the story was former Federal Judge Ed Davis. Davis told 60 Minutes that his Medicare statement showed that the government had been billed to purchase him two artificial arms. Yet, Davis did not need artificial arms; the ones he was born with were still working just fine.
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Hagens Berman Settles Whistleblower Case against Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Inc.
May 14, 2012
Whistleblowers will receive 30 percent of Government recovery in Medicare False Claims Act case.
Seattle – Hagens Berman, a national whistleblower law firm, today announced that the claims in a case brought by two whistleblowers against Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Inc. (CDI) have been resolved.
CDI is a radiology and diagnostic imaging company that owns diagnostic centers in seven states across the country. The company provides commonly used diagnostic services such as MRIs, X-rays and mammograms.
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Tonight at 10: Cemetery whistleblower case comes to an end
May 14, 2012
It was an unforgettable FOX Undercover investigation. A whistleblower's story about a desecration at a Catholic cemetery leads to a dramatic exhumation and a lawsuit.
Now, one local family's five-year battle with the church has finally ended, but not without what they say is one final insult.
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Poisoned Fighter Pilot Faces New Nightmare: Air Force Bureaucracy
May 11, 2012
The Air Force is continuing disciplinary action against one of the Air Force pilots who refused to fly the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter because the pricey jet’s faulty oxygen system was steadily poisoning him. Capt. Josh Wilson, from the Virginia Air National Guard, has been granted whistleblower protection under federal law — a status the Air Force has publicly acknowledged. But that hasn’t stopped the flying branch from beginning a process that may very well threaten to end the pilot’s career.
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“Senate passes whistleblower protections – again”
May 9, 2012
By Joe Davidson - The Washington Post
It wasn’t on the schedule of events for this Public Service Recognition Week, but the Senate sent an important signal of appreciation to federal employees when it approved whistleblower protection legislation.
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Whistleblower calls for Yahoo! CEO to be fired
May 9, 2012
By Michael Crider - Slash Gear
Despite highly publicized stories of a falsified degree listing on his resume, Yahoo!’s CEO Scott Thompson still holds his position as of early Wednesday afternoon. Despite calls from one of Yahoo’s largest invested hedge funds for his resignation and financial mogul Warren Buffet’s less than flattering statements to the same effect, Thompson has given no indication that he intends to do so. The latest call comes from Daniel Loeb himself, the Third Point CEO who did the legwork and found that Thompson’s claims were false.
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Sandusky whistle-blower to sue Penn State
May 8, 2012
The Penn State football assistant whose report of alleged child sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky led to the firing of coach Joe Paterno is filing a whistle-blower suit against the university, the Centre Daily Times reports.
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Dismissed IntegraClick executive files whistleblower lawsuit
May 8, 2012
By JOAN LOWY – Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration has repeatedly dragged its feet in responding to whistleblower complaints about safety problems and stronger oversight of air safety is needed, a government watchdog said Tuesday.
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Dismissed IntegraClick executive files whistleblower lawsuit
May 3, 2012
BY Michael Pollick - Herald Tribune
A former executive at IntegraClick -- the high-flying Internet marketer cited as one of the nation's fastest-growing technology companies in recent years -- claims in a lawsuit he was fired for refusing to help delete documents that the federal government might want in an investigation of the company.
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THE WATCHDOGS: Clout builder settles whistleblower suit for $6.4 million
Apr 30, 2012
BY TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO - Staff Reporters, Chicago Sun-Times
Walsh Construction — a behemoth builder of roads, bridges and buildings with long ties to the Daley family — has paid $6.4 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that accused the contractor of overcharging taxpayers on 11 federally subsidized housing projects, records show.
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Countrywide whistleblower sees no change in financial sector
Apr 26, 2012
Eileen Foster beamed as she accepted an award at the National Press Club in Washington for blowing the whistle on mortgage fraud at Countrywide Financial, but told the crowd she was deeply disappointed.
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