By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On March 26, California-based Seoul Medical Group Inc. and its subsidiary Advanced Medical Management agreed to pay $58,740,000 to settle Department of Justice (DOJ) and whistleblower charges they violated the False Claims Act by bilking the Medicare Advantage program out of millions of dollars [...]
If the White House’s faux pax using Signal last week wasn’t enough of a wakeup call for the lax cybersecurity folks out there, we don’t know what is. Unless you’re off the grid, you’ve likely already been bombarded with news about The Atlantic’s journalist who was added to a government [...]
In the deluge of recent enforcement actions battling COVID-19 fraud, the government announced that a wide range of companies fraudulently certified their loan eligibility and received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans intended for qualifying small businesses seeking emergency relief under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Just [...]
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: CFPB Seeks Extension to Respond to Nonbank Oversight Lawsuit Payments Dive – March 24, 2025 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asked a federal court in Washington for 60 more days to respond to a lawsuit against the agency over its efforts to oversee technology companies [...]
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to blowing the whistle. It depends on content and context and the particular path the whistleblower has chosen to sound the alarm. This is especially true when it comes to artists and pop culture figures using their power and popularity as a platform to shine [...]
In the latest example of the government’s ongoing crackdown on Covid-19 fraud, a Michigan-based hotel, social club, and restaurant, The Detroit Club, along with its owners and operators, will pay $357,669 to settle allegations that they defrauded COVID-19 pandemic relief programs in violation of the False Claims Act. The settling [...]
John Barnett worked as a quality control manager at Boeing for 32 years before retiring in 2017. He was one of several Boeing employees to publicly raise safety and quality concerns about the company’s manufacturing processes and ultimately sued the company over allegations it retaliated against him for raising those [...]
Whistleblowers have been instrumental in the surge of recent government actions against COVID-19 relief fraud. On March 19, the government announced that Vix Technology Inc. (“Vix”) will pay double damages of $2,144,114 to resolve allegations that the company fraudulently submitted their qualifications for, and received, a COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program [...]
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Retail, Crypto Groups Converge to Back Stablecoin Legislation Payments Dive – March 14, 2025 Retail and cryptocurrency trade groups converged Thursday to air their shared interest in supporting legislation to create a regulatory regime for stablecoins, and they did so on a day when the [...]
On March 12, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Florida resident Patrick Walsh and his companies agreed to pay roughly $20 million to settle charges they violated the False Claims Act by defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. This is just the [...]
