In August of this year, former defense contractor from Tennessee was setenced 41 months in federal prison for selling Chinese boots to the military withfraudulent "Made in the USA" labels. Vincent Lee Ferguson, the former president of Wellco Enterprises, pleaded guilty to his part in the fraud conspiracy, according to a U.S....
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Category: Whistleblower Cases
Wells Fargo execs knew of scam car insurance program for years before it was ended says new lawsuit
According to Reuters, a newly filed lawsuit alleges that four years before the bank ended its scamming auto insurance program, Wells Fargo executives were specifically warned that the bank's fraudulent car insurance program could be overcharging customers. According to the report, a complaint released from seal this week said that executives were briefed in...
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Criticismfor Food and Drug Administration’s approval of new painkiller Dsuvia, 1,000 stronger than morphine
The Food and Drug Administration has come under harsh criticism for approving a painkiller called Dsuvia which is 1,000 times stronger than morphine. FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, addressed the timing in a statement released late last week. "The crisis of opioid addiction is an issue of...
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Northrop Grumman pays $27.45 million to end False Claims case alleging inflating hours and invoices on battlefield communications contracts
The Justice Department announced today that Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (NGSC) has agreed to settle civil allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. _3729, by overstating the number of hours its employees worked on two battlefield communications contracts with the United States Air Force. Under...
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Major medical study reveals link between cell phone radiation and brain cancer in test rodents
A federal agency, the National Toxicology Program has released the results of the largest experiments to date and it has found evidence that radio waves from some type of cellphones could raise the risk of development of brain cancer. The study was performed on rats but some researchers point out that...
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N.Y. Attorney General files suit against major jewelry retailer for targeting active duty U.S. military service members with fraudulent practices
New York's Attorney General has filed a major lawsuit against Harris Jewelry for engaging in false and deceptive practices and illegal lending in the financing of jewelry sales to active duty servicemembers. The company has retail stores near and on military bases around the country and the AG...
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Emergency room patients given ketamine and antispychotic drugs without their knowledge or consent.
According to an article in STAT https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/29/er-patients-given-ketamine-powerful-drugs-without-consent/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=56d4d18dfb-Daily_Recap&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-56d4d18dfb-118516237, a Minnesota hospital tested powerful antipsychotics and potent anesthetic on emergency room patients without their knowledge or consent. This is a violation of law say federal inspectors have determined.
According to FDA inspectors, the hospital's Institutional Review Board...
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Abbott Labs and Abbvie Inc. pay $25 million to settle with Government on allegations of kickbacks and off label marketing of TriCor
Pharmaceutical companies Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie Inc. (“Abbott”) will pay $25 million to settle federal allegations that it paid kickbacks and unlawfully marketed and promoted the drug TriCor® for: (1) use in treating, preventing, or reducing cardiovascular events and other cardiac health risk; (2) use in combination with statin drugs, and (3) use...
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How the IRS whistleblower program works and the highest award of $105 million to one person
The IRS pays awards to people who provide specific and credible information to the IRS if the information results in the collection of taxes, penalties, interest or other amounts from the noncompliant taxpayer. The IRS looks for solid information, not guesses or speculation.
If the taxes, penalties, interest and other amounts in...
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Government files False Claims Act complaint against ophthalmologist supporting whistleblower
The government intervened and filed a complaint in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Aarti D. Pandya, M.D. a/k/a Arati D. Pandya, M.D., an ophthalmologist from Conyers, Georgia, and her practice Aarti D. Pandya, M.D., P.C. (“the Pandya Defendants”). The lawsuit alleges that the Pandya Defendants submitted false claims to Medicare for...
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