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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 [...]

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 [...]

On Friday, February 7, 2025, the Office of Special Counsel’s head honcho for whistleblowers, Hampton Dellinger, learned he was the latest casualty in President Trump’s binge firing announcements on the rise since January. Dellinger filed a lawsuit on Monday, February 10, claiming that he was unlawfully removed from his post [...]

The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (“AMLA”) significantly strengthened whistleblower protections and incentives by establishing the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) Whistleblower Program. Before the AMLA, FinCEN could receive tips but lacked the authority to offer financial rewards. The AMLA changed this by allowing whistleblowers to receive rewards amounting to [...]

On February 6, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a $37,000,000 civil money penalty against Brink’s Global Services USA, Inc. (Brink’s) for willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the main U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) law that protects the financial system from illegal behavior. [...]