3M Company (3M), has agreed to pay $9.1 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly sold the dual-ended Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2 (CAEv2) to the United States military without disclosing defects that hampered the effectiveness of the hearing protection device. Specifically, the United States alleged that 3M, and its predecessor, Aearo...
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Category: Whistleblower Cases
Owner of durable medical equipment company WaveCare Health Services pleads guilty to $9 million Medicaid fraud
Waveney Blackman, the owner of WaveCare HEalth Services, a company that provided durable medical equipment pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of health care fraud for carrying out a scheme in which she fraudulently obtained more than $9.4 million in...
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Cryptocurrency Bitcoin company owner faces up to 20 years in prison for fraud
Jon E. Montroll from Saginaw, Texas is facing up to 20 years in prison for stealing thousands of Bitcoins from customer funds, running an unregistered securities exchange, and lying to US security regulators after his cryptocurrency exchange, BitFunder, was hacked, says Bloomberg news. Montroll pleaded guilty to securities fraud and obstruction of justice before...
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Ford agrees to pay $299.1 million for faulty Takata air bag inflators
Ford Motor Co has agreed to pay $299.1 million in settlement for the faulty Takata air bag inflators. The settlement relates to nearly six million vehicles which were affected by the faulty air bags. The settlement covers several forms of economic damages linked to the inflators, including claims that vehicles were inaccurately represented to...
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Whistleblower of JP Morgan case will receive $78 million for revealing bank wrongdoing
The whistleblower which I featured in yesterday's blog who was awarded $30 million by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission for blowing the whistle on JPMorgan Chase, will also receive an additional $48 million from the Securities and Exchange Commission. That means he will receive $78 million! His name is Edward Siedle and he is...
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission announces award of $30 million to whistleblower, its largest ever
Whistleblower Lawyer News has learned that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced an award of approximately $30 million to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided key original information that led to successful enforcement action. Previously, the highest award amount paid to a CFTC whistleblower was in March 2016 of more than...
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Former manager of Maine lobster company turned whistleblower says employer repackaged expired catch for resale to public then fired him
Corey Thompson, the former general manager of a Spruce Head Island seafood company of Maine says he was fired after telling the president of the parent corporation about illegal actions that included repackaging expired seafood as new. He says that he was ultimately fired. The claims are part of a lawsuit filed...
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Electric company pays $2.3 million on overbilling hundreds of state entities including schools cities and towns
Quincy Massachusetts Granite City Electric Supply Co. of Quincy will pay $2.3 million to settle allegations that it overbilled hundreds of state entities for supplies it sold them under a five-year contract with the Executive Office for Administration and Finance's Operational Services Division, The Attorney General's Office announced Monday. An agreement filed in Suffolk...
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CEO of skilled nursing, hospice and assisted living facilities in $19 million fraud scheme sentenced to nine and a half years in prison
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a former CEO of defrauding American Senior Communities among other entities. James Burkhart will spend 9 years in prison for fraud. Burkhart is one of four people accused of a massive fraud and kickback scheme that netted $19 million dollars. Burkhart pleaded guilty in December after a years...
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CEO of large nursing home chain sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for fraud kickback scheme
Daniel Benson, the former chief operating officer of a large nursing home chain was sentenced Friday to 4 1/2 years in prison for his role in a lucrative fraud scheme. He had earlier reached a plea deal in a case in which he and three other...
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