For the past forty years, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has been universally recognized as one of the strongest whistleblower champions in Congress. He is the architect of the modern-day False Claims Act — which allows whistleblowers to sue fraudsters on behalf of the government — spiriting through key amendments to [...]
On February 18, the government announced that the Rancho Cordova, California-based Health Net Federal Services Inc. (HNFS) and its parent company, St. Louis’s Centene Corporation, will pay $11,253,400 to resolve claims that HNFS falsely certified compliance with cybersecurity requirements in a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to administer the [...]
Last Friday (February 14), Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers of New York (now known as SVCMC Inc.) agreed to pay $29 million to settle Department of Justice (DOJ) and whistleblower charges of violating the False Claims Act by keeping overpayments from the Department of Defense (DOD) for healthcare services to [...]
On February 12, Automotive News published an OpEd piece by Constantine Cannon whistleblower partner Gordon Schnell calling for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to step up its whistleblower game. It was prompted by the agency’s recent release of its long-awaited rules governing the auto safety whistleblower program, which [...]
With romance scams, the heart isn’t the only thing being stolen. While people are busy falling for sweet words and flirtatious folly, scammers are working their magic to woo people’s wallets across the globe. In time for Valentine’s Day, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Office of Customer Education and Outreach [...]
Another settlement that resulted in a monetary award for folks who decided to blow the whistle. On January 31, United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced that LiveCare Inc. agreed to pay approximately $4.9 million to resolve allegations that the Venice, Florida-based medical company violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False [...]
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: CFPB’s Future Hangs in the Balance After a Wild Weekend Banking Dive – February 10, 2025 A tombstone emoji was only the beginning. When Tesla CEO and Trump adviser Elon Musk on Friday posted “CFPB RIP” on X, the social media platform he owns, it [...]
Constantine Cannon partner Gordon Schnell published in Automotive News on whether NHTSA will finally take its auto safety whistleblower program seriously. Read February 12, 2025 at constantinecannon.com
On February 6, 2025, the government announced that Louisiana physician, Adrian Dexter Talbot M.D., 59, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for conspiring to illegally distribute 1.8+ million doses of Schedule II controlled substances (including oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine), and for defrauding health care benefit programs of over $5.4 million. [...]
It was another big year for whistleblowers under the various whistleblower rewards programs that provide whistleblowers with a share of the government’s recovery from enforcement actions they initiate or otherwise support. The two most prolific rewards programs are the False Claims Act and the SEC Whistleblower Program, each of which [...]
