A furniture business executive who falsified documents to avoid more than $1.4 million in import duties on the Chinese goods he sold was sentenced to a year of home detention Monday.
Jeff Zeng, president of Blue Furniture Solutions, was also sentenced to spend two additional years on supervised release...
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Category: Whistleblower Laws
Defense contractor International SOS Assistance pays $940,000 settling case on not giving discounts to TRICARE military health insurance
International SOS Assistance, Inc., International SOS Government Services, Inc., International SOS, LP, Air Rescue Americas, Inc. Arnaud Vaissié; and Pascal Rey-Herme (collectively, “International SOS”), will pay $940,000 settling allegations that it overcharged TRICARE, the health care insurance system for members of the military services and their families. The overcharges related to aeromedical...
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US imposes new sanctions on Irans shipping network selling oil and offers reward of $15 million for info that disrupts the operations
The United States has imposed new sanctions on Irans complex and extensive shipping that it uses to sell oil, and the U.S. will pay $15 million to anyone with information that disrupts the scheme. The reward could be rendered to individuals living within or outside the United States.
The...
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U.S.agencies allow international whistleblowers from any country to reveal fraud under various U.S. whistleblower reward programs
Individuals who are citizens of any country inside or outside the United States, who have information concerning fraudulent billing, foreign bribes, securities fraud, tax evasion or military contract fraud may become whistleblowers under U.S. laws and may be eligible for rewards for revealing the fraud. For example, in May of this year,...
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IRS offshore voluntary disclosure program closes Sept 28 the final date to avoid criminal prosecution for failure to report income
Americans with offshore accounts are being advised to apply immediately as the US Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Offshore Disclosure Programme (OVDP) is due to end September 28, 2019
American citizens with a foreign bank account have until September 28 to voluntarily disclose worldwide income, including interest, foreign earnings, wages,...
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Universal Health Services to pay $127 million to settle DOJ investigation of its behavioral health facilities
Universal Health Services announced a settlement of federal civil complaints against its behavioral health facilities for $127 million, pending federal approval.
The hospital chain said it reached the agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division and on behalf of various states’ attorneys general. It will...
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U.S. SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN TARGET LARGE GROUP OF COMPANIES, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND PERSONS IN AND OUTSIDE THE U.S.
The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued an Advisory for the civil aviation industry, including parties providing services to that industry warning them not to engage in or support unauthorized transfers of U.S. origin aircraft or related goods to Iran or those who do business with...
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Vascular surgeon charged in $60 million health care fraud scheme for laundering $49 million using six corporations
Dr. Vasso Godiali, a vascular surgeon from Michigan, has been charged in connection with a $60 million health care fraud scheme. In addition to these charges, Godiali is also being charged for laundering over $49 million that he profited from the scheme. According to a press release by the Department of Justice, Godiali’s health...
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Two whistleblowers awarded $2 million each from CFTC for info revealing exchange violations
According to a recent report, two whistleblowers have earned a total of $2 million in awards for information they provided that instigated an investigation by the CFTC. The whistleblowers participated in a variety of interviews and provided incriminating documents that proved that several violations of the Commodity Exchange Act had taken...
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Actual evidence that Chinese companies are transshipping goods to other countries to hide the country of origin to evade U.S. tariffs
There are companies in China which offer services to Chinese companies to transship their products to other nations such as Malaysia in order to evade U.S. tariffs and re-label them as if they came from Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mexico and other nations. One such company is Settle Logistics which stated on its website "...For...
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