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• False Claims Act Suit Filed Against Dallas Military Contractor
• Who is a Whistleblower in False Claims Act, SEC and, Tax Litigation?
• Arizona Businessmen Convicted in Tax Fraud Case Involving Hidden Swiss Bank Accounts
• California Medicare Fraud Scam Involving Durable Medical Equipment Is Over 
• Amgen Settles False Claims Act Suit for $24.9 Million
• Novartis Named in False Claims Act Suit Alleging Kickback Scheme
• First Settlement of Tax Fraud Case Under New York False Claims Act
• Oklahoma False Claims Act Suit Involving Reclamation of Mining Site Unsealed
• U.S. Intervenes in False Claims Act Case Against New York Biotech Company
• IRS 2013 List of “Dirty Dozen” Tax Deceptions
• Intermountain Health Care Settles False Claims Act Allegations for $25.5 Million
• Louisiana Home Health Agency Involved in $17.1 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Three Possible New Targets for False Claims Act Litigation
• False Claims Act Case Against Corpus Christi Radiologist Group Settles
• UC-Irvine Settle False Claims Act Lawsuit for $1.2 Million
• Connecticut Physical Therapist Settles False Claims Act Case
• South Carolina Ambulance Company Settles Medicare Fraud Lawsuit for $800,000
• CDW-Government Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit for $5,663,902
• Government Report on Nursing Homes Finds Medicare Fraud, Patient Abuses 
• Idaho Building Contractor Sentenced for Tax Evasion
• Michigan Nurse Pleads Guilty in Detroit Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Hospice of Arizona to Settle False Claims Act Allegations for $12 Million
• Virginia Security Contractors Illegally Obtained $31 Million in Government Contracts
• Florida Health Care Clinic Director Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Medicare Fraud
• Texas Doctor Sentenced for Role in Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Tennessee Nursing Home Settles False Claims Act Lawsuit for $2.7 Million
• Corning Incorporated to Pay U.S. $5.65 Million to Resolve False Claims Allegations
• DOJ Wins Tax Shelter Case Against Dow Concerning $1 Billion in Bogus Deductions
• Government Contractor at Hanford Nuclear Site Settles False Claims Act Allegations 
• CIA Contractors Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit for $3 Million
• Jury Convicts Houston Ambulance Service Operator of Medicare Fraud
• Par Pharmaceuticals Settles False Claims Act Suits Alleging Off-Label Marketing
• Illinois False Claims Act Suit Against Nursing Home Results in $28 Million Verdict
• Bill to Prevent Education Contractor Fraud Introduced in Florida Senate
• Northern Virginia Skilled Nursing Facility Settles False Claims Act Lawsuit
• Special Inspector Condemns Government Contractor Fraud in Iraq Rebuilding Effort
• Former DOD Contractor Sentenced for Involvement in Afghanistan Kickback Scheme
• Florida Dermatologist Settles False Claims Act Allegations for $26.1 Million
• Granite Construction Company Reaches $367,500 Settlement in Investigation of Overcharges 
• Maryland Hospital Will Pay $4.9 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Violations
• California Man Confesses to Hiding Foreign Bank Account From IRS
• Medicare Fraud at Florida Community Mental Health Center Results in Prison Sentences
• Ireland-Based Drug Maker Reaches False Claims Act Settlement With U.S. Government
• San Antonio Court Sentences Woman for Fraudulent Scheme Against DOD 
• California Strengthens State False Claims Act
• Former Miami HIV Clinic Director Sentenced for Role in Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Texas Owner of Durable Medical Equipment Companies Found Guilty of Medicare Fraud
• Carolinas Assisted-Living Chain CEO and CFO Sentenced for Tax Fraud
• South Florida Woman Consents to $21 Million Penalty to Resolve IRS Fraud Charges
• Military Contract Recruiters Conspire With Soldiers in Fraudulent Bonus Scam
• Maryland False Claims Act Effective for Fighting Medicaid Fraud
• Ohio Health Care Providers Settle False Claims Act Allegations for $4.4 Million
• Military Contractor Employees Bribe Official to Obtain Government Supply Contracts 
• Construction Contractor Settles New York State False Claims Act Allegations for $390,000 
• Detroit Adult Day Care Center Owner Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Pittsburgh Man Pleads Guilty to Tax Obstruction 
• American Sleep Medicine Settles Medicare False Claims Case for $15.3 Million
• Alabama Construction Contractor Resolves Fraud Violations for $2 Million
• Who is an Education & Research Fraud Whistelblower? 
• Princeton Review Settles False Claims Act Allegations for $10 Million
• U.S. Settles False Claims Act Allegations With W.W. Grainger for $70 Million
• Los Angeles Pastor Admits to $11 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Flushing, New York Physician Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud
• Whistleblower Case Involving Alleged Fraud in Military Procurement Contract Resolved
• Texas Senate May Take Aim at Dentists Engaged in Medicaid Fraud
• Michigan Home Health Care Providers Bill Medicare for $13.8 Million in Phony Services
• Medicare Billed for Phony Surgeries in New York Health Care Fraud Scheme
• Miami Pharmacy Owner Pleads Guilty in $23 Million Prescription Drug Scam 
• Healthpoint Ltd. Agrees to Settle False Claims Act Lawsuit Involving Unapproved Prescription Drug 
• Kentucky Defense Contractors Settle False Claims Allegations for $6.25 Million
• Florida Man Indicted by Grand Jury for Filing False Tax Claims 
• Co-Conspirators in Brooklyn Clinic Medicare Fraud Scheme Continue to Plead Guilty
• Soaring Cost of Military Drugs Could Hurt Budget
• Pharmaceutical Company to Pay $95 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
• United States Intervenes in Whistleblower Fraud Case Against Fluor Companies
• Detroit Federal Jury Convicts Three in $14.5 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Alabama Mail Carrier Indicted for Role in Tax Fraud Conspiracy
• Whistleblower Complaints Lead to New Medicaid Fraud Investigation Against CVS 
• Detroit-Area Clinic Owners Plead Guilty to Infusion Therapy Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Former FBI Agent Indicted for Obstructing Defense Contract Fraud Investigation
• Miami Home Health Co. Owner to Serve 10 Years for $42 Million Medicare Fraud
• Bridgepoint Education Under Investigation for Education Fraud
• Dallas-Area Home Healthcare Co. Owner Pleads Guilty to $374 Million Medicare Fraud
• Three Alabama Residents Get Prison Time for Role in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
• Whistleblower Lawsuit Results in $5 Million ReadyOne Industries Settlement
• L.A. Medical Equipment Supplier to Serve 30 Months for Medicare Fraud
• Medicare Fraud Sweep Catches 91 Healthcare Professionals
• $205 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Earns Two Miami Doctors 10 Years in Prison
• Kustom Products Suspected of Defrauding Defense Department With Counterfeit Bolt
• Massachusetts Tax Promoter to Serve Five Years for Tax Fraud
• Five Detroit Residents Charged for Alleged Role in $24.7 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• New Justice Department Tax Directive Will Attack Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
• Government Contractor Akal Securities Settles Fraud Suit, Faces More Legal Battles
• LA Physician Assistant Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Medicare Fraud
• HCA Inc. to Pay $16.5 Million to Settle Claims that its Hospital Paid Doctors for Patient Referrals
• Whistleblower Reports Cinema Owner to IRS for Tax Fraud
• Lucent Technologies Pay $4.2 Million to Settle Whistleblower Suit
• Detroit Doctor Was Alleged Mastermind of $40 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Three Pennsylvania Residents Barred From Preparing Federal Income Tax Returns 
• Nursing Home Accused of Medicare Fraud Sues Allegedly Responsible Contractor
• IRS Awards $104 Million to Whistleblower
• Patient Recruiter to Serve 18 Months in Prison for Medicare Fraud
• Tax Fraud Sends Former US Airways Pilot to Prison for Ten Years
• Senior Medicare Patrol Warns Seniors About Medicare Fraud
• Illinois Surgeon to Serve 10 Months for Medicare Fraud
• State Officials Building Case Against Bank for Libor Losses
• Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Failing to Pay Over $40 Million in Payroll Taxes 
• Waters & Kraus Congratulates TAF Whistleblower of the Year Allen Jones
• California Lawyer Accused of Tax Fraud Permantently Barred From Providing Tax Advice
• Whistleblowers Accuse ATI Enterprises Schools of False Claims Act Violations
• Detroit Man Pleads Guilty in $13.8 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Former Pharmacy Owner to Serve Nearly 5 Years for $3.5 Million Medicaid Fraud
• Law Firm to Pay $25 Million for Failing to Detect Securities Fraud
• Tax Fraud Doesn't Pay for Wisconsin Neurosurgeon 
• U.S. Intervenes in Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Polling Giant Gallup Organization 
• Medicare Fraud Scheme Leads to 15-Years Prison Sentence for Owner of Louisiana Medical Equipment Companies
• $200 Million Medicaid Fraud Scheme Sends Patient Broker to Prison
• Tennessee Home Healthcare Providers Resolve False Claims Act Allegations for over $9 Million
• Contractor Defrauded U.S. Government on Iraq Reconstruction Contacts
• Court Closes Doors on Florida Tax Preparers for Tax Fraud
• British Bankers' Assn. May Lose Libor Oversight
• Florida's Lee County Will Be Forum For Medicaid Fraud Crackdown
• New DOJ Whistleblower Ombudsperson Position Shows Importance of Whistleblowers
• Detroit Adult Day Care Center Invovled in $10 Million Psychotherapy Fraud Scheme
• Miami Home Healthcare Agency Owner Guilty in $42 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Denver Couple to Serve Three Years in Prison for Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
• Univ. of Illinois Law School to Pay $250,000 for Inflating Applicants' Test Scores
• Texas Has Highest Rate of Suspicious Home Healthcare Billing
• Participants in Alleged $97 Million Medicare Fraud Scam Arrested in Houston
• Two Houston Men Sentenced in $1.18 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Arizona's Universal Technical Institute Under Investigation for Alleged False Claims Act Violations
• When Money Trumps Trust
• Atlanta Hospice Reaches Settlement Involving False Claims Act Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
• Whistleblower Cases Involving Securities & Financial Fraud  
• Detroit Resident Sentenced to Seven Years for Medicare Fraud
• Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Faces Possible FCPA Bribery Allegations
• Whistleblower Reveals $375 Medicare Fraud Scheme
• 84 Fraudulent Tax Returns Filed by Florida Inmate
• 48 Charged in Prescription Drug Medicaid Fraud Scheme
• California Woman Charged with Earned Income Credit Tax Fraud Scheme
• Former Texas Medicaid Worker Sentenced for Medicaid Fraud
• Five Physicians Charged with Insider Trading by SEC
• Is Medicare Fraud Behind 500% Increase in Spending for Penis Pumps? 
• Energy Company Settles False Claim Act Allegations for Over $4 Million 
• Woman Pleads Guilty to Part in $63 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Tax Fraud Sends Former Florida Salesperson to Prison for Five Years
• Arizona Urgent Care Chain Will Pay $10 Million to Settle Healthcare Fraud Claims
• False Claims Act Violations to Cost Defense Contractor $628,000
• Miami Woman to Serve 37 Months for Her Part in Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Former Las Vegas Nightclub VIP Host Admits Filing False Tax Return
• Texas AG Joins Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Dallas Dentist and Dental Clinics 
• Email Reveals that Drug Manufacturing Exec Reveled in Misleading the Public
• Medicaid Anti-Fraud Efforts Paying Off
• Wal-Mart Not Forthcoming in FCPA Investigation, Say Lawmakers
• Oklahoma Counseling Service Provider, Employees Charged With Medicaid Fraud
• California Lab Company Faces Medicaid Fraud Charges for Illegal Kickbacks
• Drug Store Chain Pays $1 Million to Settle Medicaid Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit
• Christus Spohn Health Systems Settles Medicare Fraud Case for $5 Million 
• Ambulance Company Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit Over Alleged Medicare Fraud
• Medicare Fraud Scheme Costs Detroit Therapy Company Owner 30 Months in Prison
• Texas Resident Will Serve 15 Months in Prison for Defrauding U.S. Export-Import Bank
• Texas-Based Orthofix Inc. Will Settle False Claims Act Allegations for $34 Million
• Tax and Wire Fraud Earns Former Ariz. State Rep. 27-Month Prison Sentence
• False-Billing Claims Will Cost Arizona Hospice $3.7 Million
• Miami Doctors and Therapist Convicted in $205 Million Medicaid Fraud Trial
• Defense Contractor Calnet to Pay $18.1 Million to Settle Overbilling Allegations
• Detroit Home Health Agency Owner Admits Guilt in $13 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• LA Physician Assistant Guilty in Major Multimillion Dollar Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Owner of Virginia Home Helath Care Company Arrested for Medicaid Fraud
• New York Files False Claims Act Lawsuit Againt Sprint Nextel Corp.
• The Importance of Whistleblower Incentives
• North Carolina Gets New Tool to Fight Medical Fraud
• Pharmaceutical Company Settles Price-Fixing Allegations With State of Idaho
• Mississippi Cancer Center Committed Medicaid/Medicare Fraud, Watered Down Chemotherapy Drugs
• California Man Faces Posible 135 Year Prison Term and $11 Million Fine for Tax Fraud
• Sen. Kirk Dillard Speaks Out on the Costs of Medicaid Fraud
• Suspicious Billing Patterns Suggest Large Scale Medicare Fraud at Pharmacies
• Tax Fraud Earns Pennsylvania Resident Conviction in Federal Court
• Former Medicare Chief Speaks at Harvard Medical and Dental Schools’ Graduation
• Alabama Doctor Has Been Indicted in $1.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Hitachi Data Storage Bid-Rigging Conspiracy Lands Korean Executive in U.S. Prison
• Palm Beach Resident Charged with Medicaid Fraud
• Two Men Found Guilty in $22 Million Tax Fraud Scheme
• Rhode Island Fights Medicaid Fraud with Online Complaint Form
• Former Pharmacist Guilty of Medicaid Fraud Stentenced to More than 5 Years in Prison
• Humana Medicaid and Medicare Operations Under Investigation
• Congressman Calls for Probe of Possible Medicaid Fraud by Coventry Cares
• SEC Investigates Potential FCPA Violations in Film Industry
• Dental Fraud Complaint Costs Minnesota Dental Clinic Owner a License
• Tax Fraud Permanently Bars Dallas-Area Man From Preparing Tax Returns for Others
• Nebraska Man to Serve 3-Year Sentence for Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
• Whistleblower Suits Allege Education Fraud by Globe University
• Milwaukee Transport Company Found Guilty of Medicaid Fraud
• Nationwide Takedown Results in Charges Against 107 People for Committing Over $450 Million in Healthcare Fraud
• McKesson Corp. Agrees to Pay More Than $190 Million to Settle False Claims Act Claims
• Ex-IMI Executives Enter Guilty Pleas in FCPA Case
• Goldman Sachs Settles SEC Suit for $22 Million 
• U.S. Intervenes in False Claims Act Suit Alleging Non-Payment of Import Duties
• Walgreens Pharmacy Settles False Claims Act Case for $7.9 Million
• Nine-Year Tax Fraud Scheme Costs Utah Man Two-Year Sentence
• Pakistan Calls for FCPA Investigation of Oklahoma Company 
• Patient Recruiter From Detroit Area Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Charges
• Insider Trading Gets Clay Capital's James Turner a Year in Prison
• Alleged Tax Fraud Leads DOJ to Try to Shut Down Three Philadelphia Tax Preparers
• SEC Freezes Assets in Alleged Insider Deal Involving Chinese Pork Producer
• Baltimore's Good Samaritan Hospital Settles False Claims Act Allegations
• Tenet Healthcare Corporation in Dallas Agrees to $42 Million False Claims Act Settlement
• Georgia Oncology Practice Settles False Claims Act Suit
• Owner of Miami Assisted Living Facility Admits to Health Care Fraud
• Tax Fraud Results in Convictions for Massachusetts and New Hampshire Residents
• $20 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme Prompts Multiple Guilty Pleas
• DoJ Goes After National Tax Prep Firm to Stop Widespread Tax Fraud
• Medicare Fraud Scheme Prompts Guilty Plea from Owner of Detroit Medical Clinic
• False Claims Act Allegations Result in $15.85 Million Settlement with Lockheed Martin
• Medicare Fraud Scheme Sends Two Louisiana Patient Recruiters to Prison
• Medicare Fraud Will Cost a Pennsylvania Drug Company $180,000
• Pennsylvania Steps Up Fight on Medicaid Fraud
• Chicago-Based LifeWatch Services Inc. Settles Claims for Meicaid Fraud
• Fraud, Espionage, and Tax Evasion Land Scientist in Prison
• False Claims Act Allegations to Cost Harbert Companies $47 Million
• Whistleblower Alleges Fraud by Education Management Corp. 
• $200 Million Healthcare Fraud Scheme Results in Guilty Plea by South Florida Man
• South Florida Tax Fraud Scheme Results in Conviction for Georgia Couple
• Chamber of Commerce Attacks FCPA's Focus on Foreign Bribery
• Strange and Tragic Consequences in Dental Medicaid Fraud Case 
• Medicare Fraud Scheme Costs Owner of Houston Health Care Company 30-Month Prison Sentence
• Insider Trading Lands Former FDA Chemist Five-Year Prison Sentence 
• Alleged Health Care Fraud Totaling Almost $375 Million
• Odyssey HealthCare Will Pay $25 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
• U.S. Intervenes in False Claims Act Suit Against American Commercial College Inc. 
• Hold-Out Whistleblower in False Claims Act Suit Against WellCare Agrees to Settlement
• FCPA Bribery Conviction of Frederic Bourke May Receive Second Appellate Review
• False Claims Act Filed Against Federal Grant Recipient in Florida
• Houston-Area Patient Recruiter for Hospital Medicare Fraud Scheme Convicted
• FCPA Bribery Conspiracy Lands Former Kellogg, Brown & Root Chairman and CEO in Prison
• Medicare Fraud Results in 33-Month Sentence for Operator of Florida Halfway House
• Alleged Tax Fraud Prompts Injunction Against California Woman
• Houston Hospital Administrator Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Charges
• Utah Man Accused of Filing False Claims for $875,218 in Tax Refunds
• Senators Ask Justice Department to Clarify FCPA Anti-Bribery Law
• False Claims Act Violations Will Cost CITIMORTGAGE, INC. $158.3 Million 
• FCA and Antitrust Violations Will Cost Gunnison Energy and SG Interests 
• False Claims Act Lawsuit Settles for $3.9 Million Against Pennsylvania-Based Mortgage Lender 
• New Jersey Dentist Indicted for Filing False Medicaid Claims
• False Claims Act Violations Involving Overbilling Result in $12 Million Settlement
• Alleged FCPA Violations Bring Avon Products Before Federal Grand Jury
• False Claims Act "Best Price Violations" Will Cost Dava Pharmaceuticals $11 Million 
• Loren Jabcobson to Discuss Pitfalls for Whistleblowers at AAJ's 2012 Winter Convention
• Former Boston-Area Dentist to Serve Time for Dental Medicaid Fraud
• Rupert Murdoch Employees Subject of FCPA Investigation
• Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the False Claims Act Amendments of 1986
• Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group Formed
• False Claims Act Suit Against NJ Hospital Results in $7.5 Million Settlement
• Dan Hargrove of Waters & Kraus to Speak at DFW National Employment Association Luncheon
• Aerospace Corporation Settles False Claims Act Investigation About Phantom Employee
• United States Sues BestCare Laboratories Under False Claims Act
• For-Profit Hospice Companies Accused of Bilking Medicare
• GE Healthcare Inc. Settles False Calims Act Suit
• Medtronic Inc. Settles Kickback Case for $23.5 Million
• Turns Out, Dallas Isn't the Only Local City that Owes Feds for Overbilling for Ambulances  (pdf)
• Preparing Americans for Death Lets Hospices Neglect End of Life  (pdf)
• Waters, Kraus & Paul Partner Takes Office as President of World's Largest Trial Bar
• Bad Mules: A Primer on the Federal & Maryland False Claims Acts (pdf)
• Drugmaker Pays $25 Million to Settle Military Claim
• DOJ Intervenes, Settles Whistleblower Case Involving Off-Label Marketing to Military Physicians
• California Insurance Commissioner to Pursue Healthcare Fraud Case
• Psychiatric Treatment Facility Pays $150,000 to Settle Whistleblower Medicaid Fraud Suit
• Whistle-Blower to Receive Multimillion-Dollar Settlement in Medicaid Prescription Drug Fraud Case