Last Thursday (February 27), The Hill published an OpEd piece by Constantine Cannon whistleblower lawyer Gordon Schnell on how President Trump may be clearing a path for whistleblowers. Schnell offered three reasons why an unintended consequence of President Trump’s efforts to dramatically cut federal agency staff and resources may be [...]
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Durbin to Reintroduce Credit Card Competition Bill Payments Dive – February 25, 2025 Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin plans to reintroduce the Credit Card Competition Act bill sometime “soon,” according to a spokesperson for his office. It’s not clear whether the Democrat will strike an [...]
Although the pandemic has ended, government enforcement against fraudsters who took advantage of emergency government assistance programs continues. On February 25, in a case brought by a whistleblower, the government announced that the Waterbury, Connecticut company, MacDermid Incorporated paid $2,226,623.62 to settle False Claims Act allegations that its subsidiary, Coventya [...]
OKX, the largest international cryptocurrency exchange platform, hosts transactions totaling billions of dollars each day where users can place orders for spot trades in over three hundred cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, in addition to ordering derivative products tied to cryptocurrencies’ value. On February 24, the government announced that the [...]
On February 21, the government announced that Saad Enterprises Inc. (DBA Saad Healthcare) will pay $3 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act from 2013-2020 by submitting false claims for the care of 21 Alabama-based Medicare ineligible hospice patients who were not terminally ill. Hospice is [...]
On February 20, the DOJ announced that Johnson County, Kansas resident Gregory Schreck (50) pleaded guilty to operating DMERx, a web-based platform that created phony doctors’ orders to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of over $1 billion. He will receive a maximum penalty of 10 years [...]
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 [...]
