The award demonstrates the international reach of the Whistleblower Program, underscoring that any person worldwide who has information about potential violations of the CEA can become a whistleblower by simply submitting a tip online.
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Richard C. Davis, the founder and former president and CEO of Michigan-based Second Chance Body Armor, Inc., agreed to resolve claims under the False Claims Act in connection with his role in the sale of defective Zylon bullet-proof vests purchased by the United States for federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies, the Justice Department announced today.
Earlier this month, several federal agencies, including the SEC, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation joined the Department of Justice's inquiry into the data scandal.
Martin Tripp, the ex-Tesla employee accused by Elon Musk of sabotage inside the company's facilities, has struck back by filing a whistleblowing complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bancor, an Israeli startup that facilitates trading in digital tokens, said a criminal made off with a $13.5 million cache, mostly comprised of Ether.
The change is based on a six-year pilot program that also allowed federal whistleblowers to file appeals across a wider array of federal courts.
North American Power Group Ltd. (NAPG) and its owner and president, Michael Ruffatto, have agreed to pay the United States $14.4 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act
The department and commission are both responsible for enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act., which bars bribing foreign officials to win, or keep, a business advantage.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) has agreed to pay a $3.6 million penalty and to accept certain undertakings for its failure to protect against its personnel misusing or misappropriating funds from client accounts.
More than 80% of doctors who filed Medicare claims in 2016 for H.P. Acthar Gel -- a drug best known for treating a rare infant seizure disorder -- received money or other perks from the drugmakers, according to a CNN analysis of publicly identified prescribers.
'These are human beings': Whistleblower tells Legislature the state fails sick Texans - Lawmakers expressed shock Wednesday at the firsthand account of a former state regulator who testified that hundreds of patients suffered because they didn't get the care Texas paid giant companies to provide.
When the godfather of management consulting landed its biggest contract ever in Africa, it made the worst mistake in its storied nine-decade history.
The blackouts kept coming. The state-owned power company, Eskom, was on the verge of insolvency. Maintenance was being deferred. And a major boiler exploded, threatening the national grid.
Caris Healthcare, L.P. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Caris Healthcare, LLC ("Caris Healthcare"), have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims, and knowingly retaining overpayments, for the care of patients who were ineligible for the Medicare hospice benefit because they were not terminally ill, the Department of Justice announced today. Under the settlement agreement, Caris Healthcare, a for-profit hospice chain that operates in Tennessee, Virginia, and South Carolina, has agreed to pay $8.5 million.
Carbanak's suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on. Before WannaCry, before the Sony Pictures hack, and before the breaches that opened up Equifax and Yahoo!, there was a nasty bit of malware known as Carbanak. Unlike those spectacular attacks, this malware wasn't created by people interested in paralyzing institutions for ransom, publishing embarrassing emails, or taking personal data. The Carbanak guys just wanted loot, and lots of it.
But the employee, Martin Tripp, told The Washington Post that he did not tamper with internal systems and is instead a whistleblower who spoke out after seeing "some really scary things" inside the company, including dangerously punctured batteries installed in cars.
The lawsuits were filed under whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act, which permit citizens with knowledge of fraud against the government to file action on behalf of the United States and share in any recovery.
The whistleblower who outed Cambridge Analytica for improperly accessing millions of Facebook users' personal information warned on Tuesday that unchecked data collection and targeting on social media threaten Web users' privacy — and the healthy functioning of democracy.
A former Barclays trader on trial for allegedly rigging the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) was a whistleblower for the lowballing scandal that rocked the banking industry, a court has heard.
Last month, the bank also agreed to pay $480 million to resolve a securities fraud lawsuit filed with the District Court for the Northern District of California which alleged the bank made certain misstatements and omissions in disclosures related to its sales practices.
Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal, the Buzzfeed investigative reporter details how the unlikeliest of countries the one that cares the least about soccer became the one that finally exposed its criminal underbelly.
