By Jeff Newman, Esq., MBA, with AI help
The writer and novelist Pete Dexter was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Read his columns, collected in Paper Trails, and you find Philadelphia’s spirit defined through everyday community and personal bonds rather than...
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CVS Health and Aetna sue CMS over 2027 Star Ratings
complaint
Oct 27, 2026 · @Jeffrey A Newman PC Dba jeff newman Law
CVS Health and more than 30 Aetna and affiliated subsidiaries sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on October 26,...
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Seven questions to ask before you blow the whistle
A war strategist’s checklist, borrowed for one of the hardest decisions an employee can make
Jeff Newman, Esq., MBA
Eliot A. Cohen has spent his career studying how nations decide to go to war and why they so often decide...
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Philadelphia’s Blue Cross pays $22.5 Million to settle Medicare fraud suit
By Jeff Newman, Esq., MBA, with AI help
Independence Blue Cross agreed to resolve federal claims that its nurses' chart reviews identified diagnoses that increased Medicare payments, while leaving diagnoses the same reviews could not support in place. The former employee who sued...
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How Reuters uncovered Iran’s secret crypto network and what the government record adds
More than 3 Billion traced
By Jeff Newman, Esq., MBA
A locked door in Dubai
In early July, a Reuters reporter went to the registered address of a crypto exchange called Shelbit, in the Deira district of Dubai. Behind a locked...
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What is the pace of China’s semiconductor chip development?
What the chips themselves say, who is measuring them, and where China is actually gaining
By Jeffrey A. Newman, Esq. MBA with AI assistance
October 2026
In late 2025, a Huawei smartphone went on sale in China with a processor that no Chinese...
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Your Next Whistleblower May Well Be a Data Miner
Data-mining whistleblowers now file nearly half of all False Claims Act qui tam cases. Why the Justice Department changed its mind about them, what the courts now demand, how successful cases actually get through, and whether any of it reduces fraud.
By Jeff Newman Esq. a whistleblower lawyer • ...
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Jeff Newman law firm represents a whistleblower in False Claims Act judgment of $1.3 million involving a contractor bribe in military contracts
Jeff Newman Law firm represented Whistleblower in False Claims Act Case that resulted in $1.3 Million Judgment Against Government Contractor That Bribed Its Way to Military Contracts
By Jeffrey A. Newman · September 2026
A federal court in Alaska has entered a False Claims Act judgment...
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Anthropic reveals China, Russia, Yemen and Iran-linked actors used Claude for weapons and espionage
Many of them didn't hack in. They signed up.
By Jeff Newman Esq. MBA
On September 10, Anthropic published a threat report on misuse of its Claude AI model that it detected and blocked. Among the cases:
→ An actor linked by...
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Anthropic reports that Claude was used for weapons, spying and cyber ops by China, Yemen and Russia
By Jeffrey A. Newman, Esq. MBA with AI assistance
What the September threat report documents — why almost none of it can be stopped — and whether any of it can reach an American courtroom.
On September 10, 2026, Anthropic...
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