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Millions of Dollars in False Claims Submitted to HUD’s FHA Mortgage Insurance Program DOJ The United States has filed a civil complaint in federal court in Brooklyn seeking damages and penalties against three individuals and multiple companies alleged to have engaged in a wide-ranging mortgage fraud scheme to defraud the government.

Texas Heart Hospital and Wholly-Owned Subsidiary THHBP Management Company LLC to Pay $48 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related to Alleged Kickbacks DOJ

Armed Mexicans Were Smuggled In to Guard Border Wall, Whistle-Blowers Say NY TIMES In a complaint unsealed on Friday, whistle-blowers working on President Trump’s wall said that contractors were illegally bringing in Mexican guards to protect construction sites.

Defense Bill Proposes Anti-Money-Laundering Whistleblower Program WSJ A new whistleblower reward program incentivizing the reporting of potential violations of anti-money-laundering laws would be established as part of an annual defense-spending bill that is poised to clear Congress.

Former U.S. Senator and anti-fraud law co-sponsor Paul Sarbanes dies at 87 REUTERS Paul Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat who served in the U.S. Congress for more than three decades, helped clean up the Chesapeake Bay and corporate scandals and pressured Richard Nixon to resign as president, died on Sunday at 87. After the crash of Enron and other companies in corporate scandals in 2001 and 2002, Sarbanes, as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, advocated sweeping regulatory changes.

Workrite Companies to Pay $7.1 Million to Settle Alleged Furniture Overcharges DOJ Ergonomic office furniture maker Workrite Ergonomics LLC, a Delaware company, and its parent, Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Co. (collectively, Workrite), have agreed to pay $7.1 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that they overcharged the federal government for office furniture under General Services Administration (GSA) contracts, the Department of Justice announced today.

Home Health Agency and Former Owner to Pay $5.8 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations DOJ Doctor’s Choice Home Care, Inc. and its former owners, Timothy Beach and Stuart Christensen, have agreed to pay $5.15 million to resolve allegations that the home health agency provided improper financial inducements to referring physicians through sham medical director agreements and bonuses to physicians’ spouses who were Doctor’s Choice employees, the Department of Justice announced today.

SEC Whistleblowers Say 401ks And Pensions Are Cheated Out Of Billions In Mutual Fund Payments FORBES Three SEC whistleblowers say financial intermediaries serving as custodians, recordkeepers and trustees to 401ks and pensions systemically conceal and pocket billions in mutual fund “omnibus” payments which rightfully belong to retirement plans.

U.S. government looking into Pfizer's operations in China YAHOO Pfizer Inc. received informal requests relating to its operations in China from the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in June and August.

Controversial 'Hunger Bonds' Make Their Way Onto the Market, Philadelphia District Attorney Pleads Guilty to Bribery and Resigns

Citigroup Inc. said Monday that it is cooperating with an industrywide investigation, Ormat exploited the resources of the United States Government in order to finance one of the most expensive geothermal boondoggles in history, $663 million judgment against Trinity — the largest in the history of the False Claims Act

civil monetary penalty as a result of their unlawful conduct., whistleblower whose original information alerted the agency to a fraud. cozy relationships between audit partners and clients are off the table, millions of dollars in federal government contracts, Should Dodd-Frank's anti-retaliation provisions be read broadly or narrowly?

Alleged electricity market manipulation, U.S. authorities are examining Facebook's federal income tax liability, Funds for feeding needy children were misused, Overcharged pensions and mutual funds, Penalty Spike Confirmed by DOJ, Neurosurgeons billed for procedures they didn't participate in

falsifying medical records of Medicare beneficiaries, Oracle is asking a judge to throw out the state's billion-dollar fraud lawsuit, unethical relationship with a U.S. Army project manager, Louisiana Supreme Court to decide on good faith

Philip Morris Sheds Military Cigs FCA Suit At DC Circ. - False Claims Act allegations that Philip Morris overcharged the military for cigarettes got no help Tuesday from the D.C. Circuit, which said the claims were based on publicly disclosed information and the would-be whistleblower was not an original source who could overcome that fact.

Whistleblowers contacted the Securities and Exchange Commission about corporate disclosures and financials more than anything else in fiscal 2012, according to