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Whistleblower Actions: Citizens Motivated By Doing Right In 2006, whistleblower rewards were significantly increased, and the Whistleblower Office created, when President Bush signed into law the Tax Relief and Health Care Law. ” If the Secretary proceeds with any administrative or judicial action based upon information brought to the Secretary’s attention by an individual, the...

Qui Tam and Big Oil, All Over Again When it comes to classic whistleblower cases, oil always comes to the surface. The recurring saga, alleged mismanagement, and waste, of the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) revealed the recurring nature of oil oversight: and the frustrating, often ignored, role of whistleblowers. In 2007, what was viewed...

FDA Criminal Investigators Suffers Form Foot in Mouth Once again, there is a bad taste in the mouth over FDA’s appetite for whistleblowing. In posh sections of Virginia Beach, one might not have known that the FDA’s top criminal investigator was allegedly conducting high profile criminal investigations. For one thing, a home office might not...

Proposed Regulations Benefit Whistleblowers For the last 144 years, the IRS has been providing tax whistleblowers with compensation for information leading to the recovery of additional taxes paid by the identified defrauding taxpayer.There were two major flaws to the IRS program that served to deter individual whistleblower from reporting the fraud: 1) the rewards were discretionary with...

Eastern District of PA is a Great Place to Be The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was recently recognized in The Philadelphia Inquirer for its success in prosecuting false claims cases over the last seven years. In those seven years, the Philadelphia office has recovered nearly $4 BILLION from drugmakers,...

McKessy Named Head of SEC Whistleblower Office The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that Sean McKessy will oversee the new Whistleblower Office in the Division of Enforcement. The Office will consolidate existing resources to administer the whistleblower provisions called for by The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In that role, Mr....

If you haven’t had an opportunity to do so, I urge you to read John Perkins’ book entitled “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”.“Economic Hit Men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel World Bank, US government, and other foreign ‘aid’ funds into the coffers of...

IRS Issues “Dirty Dozen” for 2011 Hiding income in offshore accounts, identity theft, return preparer fraud, and filing false or misleading tax forms top the annual list of “dirty dozen” tax scams in 2011, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. Each year the IRS reveals its “dirty dozen” tax schemes in an effort to educate...