French whistleblowers and tax evasion are taken seriously. On March 9, a French court ordered the Swiss bank, UBS, to pay a 75,000 euro fine for psychologically harassing two people who blew the whistle on an arrangement that enabled wealthy French clients to avoid taxes. The French court’s decision concludes [...]
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Judge in CFPB Case ‘Leaning’ Toward Injunction Banking Dive – March 12, 2025 The federal judge in the National Treasury Employees Union’s case against Trump-era management of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday she’s “leaning” toward issuing a preliminary injunction to keep at bay [...]
On February 28, the government announced that the Texas-based skilled nursing facility, Providence Park, Inc., (DBA Ascension Living Providence Village) and acute care hospital, Ascension Providence, (FKA Providence Health Services of Waco), settled allegations that the Federal False Claims Act and the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act were [...]
Last month, Mina Tadrus, founder and operator of the hedge fund Tadrus Capital LLC, pled guilty to investment adviser fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Tadrus Capital’s clients and investors of over $5 million. According to the government, “Tadrus marketed interests in Tadrus Capital LLC to investors based [...]
We are pleased to announce that Constantine Cannon, on behalf of a California premium paying class, has reached an agreement in principle to settle a long-running healthcare antitrust case against California’s Sutter Health, one of the nation’s largest and most powerful hospital chains. The parties’ settlement is subject to Court [...]
The European Union is drawing attention to the importance of whistleblowers and the safeguards countries must adopt to encourage reporting violations of law. On March 6, the EU Court of Justice fined five countries for their lack of rules protecting whistleblowers, who are critical sources in revealing fraud, data breaches, [...]
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Visa and Mastercard Accused of Card Monopoly by UK Watchdog PYMNTS – March 6, 2025 Visa and Mastercard face regulatory action in the United Kingdom following a payments watchdog’s investigation. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is considering “remedies” for the two companies after uncovering a [...]
The Battle Creek, Michigan-based manufacturer, Rosler Metal Finishing USA LLC (AKA Rosler), agreed to pay more than $2.2 million to resolve allegations that it defrauded the COVID-19-era Paycheck Protection Program, which was initiated as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March 2020 and administered [...]
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed for-profit college Colorado Technical University’s (“CTU”) appeal of the district court’s denial of its motion to dismiss, holding that CTU failed to meet the high burden required to expand the collateral order doctrine to include the False Claims Act’s public disclosure bar. This [...]
As we previously reported in February, President Donald Trump attempted to fire the Office of Special Counsel’s head of the federal whistleblower agency, Hampton Dellinger. He immediately sued Trump for unlawful removal, and on Saturday, March 1, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled in Dellinger’s favor, granting him a temporary [...]