The Center for Disease Control has said that consumers should throw away any romaine lettuce and that restaurants should not service it as no romaine lettuce is safe to eat no matter where it is grown.
All romaine is suspect. 32 people in 11 states have become sick from...
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Category: Whistleblower Laws
Are US companies selling Chinese products to US government which they say are made in America?
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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Why Amazon Google Apple and Fortune 500’s should join to create their own private non-governmental anti-fraud whistleblower program
Presently the U.S. government oversees the major existing whistleblower programs and laws, including False Claims Act (FCA) cases through the Department of Justice, the IRS whistleblower program, the Securities and Exchange whistleblower program the Commodities Futures Trading Commission Commision whistleblower program and a few others. Some other nations have created whistleblower programs all overseen...
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Attorneys for Danske Bank whistleblower who unveiled the $235 Billion money laundering asking for his protection
Attorneys for Howard Wilkinson, the whistleblower who discovered and revealed the 235 plus billion dollars of Russian money laundering scandal at Denmark's Danske Bank are demanding that steps be taken to protect him from retaliation. An Estonian newspaper last week identified him as the whistleblower an act which his lawyer say was...
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NY pharmacy owner charged with defrauding Medicare and Medicaid allegedly getting paid for drugs not dispensed
The owner of Superdrugs Inc in New York, Aleah Mohammed aka Aleah Haniff was indicted in federal court charged with submitting millions of dollars in claims to Medicare and Medicaid for reimbursement for prescription drugs that were not dispensed. The claims that were included in the charges were for some prescription drugs for the...
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Fearing it might be saddled with borrow losses, Wells Fargo halts purchase of cryptocurrency using its credit cards
Wells Fargo is prohibiting its customers from using its issued credit cards to buy cryptocurrency. Wells Fargo joins Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp., which stopped cryptocurrency purchases on their credit cards in February, citing market volatility and credit risks. Lenders have said theyāre worried theyād be...
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$12 trillion disappear into corporate shells which have no real activity to hide the moneys according to IMF reseachers
According to International Fund Researchers over $12 Trillionāalmost 40 percent of all foreign direct investment globally is completely articifical and is really financial investment passing though empty corporate shells with no real activity, in order to hide the funds. The investments in empty corporate shells almost always pass through well-known tax havens....
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Panasonic Avionics pays over $280 Million to settle foreign bribery charges
Panasonic Avionics Corporation has agreed to pay a $137.4 million criminal penalty to settle charges arising out of a scheme to retain consultants for improper purposes and conceal payments to third-party sales agents, in violation of the accounting provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The company, based in Lake Forest,...
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Major oral argument at Supreme Court tomorrow may decide if states can collect billions from online retailers
Many online retailers have a strong advantage over local stores they may not have to pay a 6 plus percent sales tax which the local stores must pay. That means billions of dollars in uncollected revenue for the states and what is being argued as an unfair advantage in a major case being argued...
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Massachusetts Medicaid fraud rises to nearly $17 million up 9 percent but whistleblowers also increasing
Massachusetts Whistleblower Law
Massachusetts Medicaid fraud hit a new record, rising to $17 million, says the state auditor. Suzanne Bump. Bump released an annual report Monday outlining a nine percent year-over-year increase in public assistance benefit fraud in fiscal year 2017. She noted that the fraud "represents a small percentage of overall spending, but has...
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