The woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of forcing himself on her when they were in high school has come forward, detailing that the Washington Post Kavanaugh pinned her down, groped her over her clothes, and tried to take off her bathing suit and outer clothing in an assault. Christine...
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Category: Whistleblower Cases
Enforcement Chief says Massive fraud in $50 trillion futures markets including front running unchecked as Congress starves agency of funds
The enforcement Chief of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission which oversees the $50 trillion futures market, Aitan Gielman, says flatly that there is a massive amount of fraud in the marketplace including front-running, insider trading and Ponzi schemes that the oversight agency is not pursuing because Congress has starved the agency of resources. As...
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CBS Whistleblower program to feature $145 million nationwide biofuels fraud
CBS News will air a segment featuring biofuels fraud whistleblower, Alex Chepurko on August 31 at 9 pm EST 8 Central on its Whistleblower Program. It overviews Chepurko's blowing the whistle on a nationwide biofuels scam.
While working for Caravan, Chepurko a nationwide scam as the company was selling finished biodiesel to another company...
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Wells Fargo Whistleblower: “I complained to Wells Fargo many times and it should have been prevented”
Yesenia Jesse Guitron, a Wells Fargo employee in Napa County California who began working for Wells Fargo in 2008 complained to the company when she noticed some of her co-workers were offering to open free accounts which were actually premium accounts with heavy fees. She says she repeatedly complained to the company...
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China’s counterfeit goods to the U.S. are spiking due to tariffs and whistleblower cases expected to help stop the fraud
Customs and border officers seized and destroyed some 34,143 shipments containing counterfeit items in the 2017 fiscal year. The largest counterfeiter is China. Thousands of shipments of counterfeit goods went undetected and made it into the United States.
The CBP seized 8.2% more shipments of counterfeit goods in 2017 compared to the year before, when...
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Royal Bank of Scotland pays U.S. record $4.9 Billion to settle charges of risky residential mortgage frauds
The Royal Bank of Scotland will pay a $4.9 billion settlement to end the federal civil claims that RBS misled investors in the underwriting and issuing of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) between 2005 and 2008. It is the largest penalty under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act...
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Hospital pays $84.5 million to settle whistleblower case charging improper payments to referring docs
The William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan will pay $84.5 million settling a False Claims Act case over improper financial relationships with eight referring physicians, resulting in the submission of false claims to the Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE program. Federal anti-Kickback 'lawsĀ prohibit offering, paying, soliciting, or receiving remuneration to...
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Wells Fargo pays $2.09 BILLION to settle charges on abuses in mortgage backed securities originations
Wells Fargo Bank will pay the U.S Treasury $2.09 billion to settle charges that it originated and sold residential mortgage loans which it knew contained misstated income information. Also that it did so when they did not meet the quality that Wells Fargo represented. Investors, including federally...
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Danske Bank money laundering case to be discussed by Estonia’s parliament
According to Reuters, Estonia's parliament will hold a special meeting on Tuesday to talk about a money laundering case involving Danske Bank. The meeting was scheduled a week after authorities received a criminal complaint against the bank from Bill Browder. Browder, who is now based in London, persuaded the US and other...
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Medical device maker Alere Inc. pays U.S. $33.2 million to settle whistleblower suit over knowing sale of unreliable diagnosis equipment
Medical device maker, Alere Inc. will pay $33.2 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit which asserts that the company knowingly sold materially unreliable point-of-care diagnostic testing devices to hospitals. Alere will pay the federal government $33.2 million, of which $4.8 million will be paid to the participating states. Arkansas is set to...
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