Pharmaceutical companies Mylan Inc. and Mylan Specialty will pay $465 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly misclassifying EpiPen as a generic drug to avoid paying rebates owed primarily to Medicaid. Mylan Inc. and Mylan Specialty L.P. are both wholly owned subsidiaries of Mylan N.V., which is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
The decision overturns 15 years of case law in Minnesota courts and ensures that most whistleblowers will be able to argue their case to a jury.
One could only hope Chief Justice John D. Minton was sincere when he said “transparency and accountability are bedrock principles in maintaining trust in state government.” More than 30 years after the Kentucky legislature enacted the state’s open records laws, the Kentucky Supreme Court has finally acknowledged that it is not above the law. The […]
A former underwriter for a mortgage lending company has been awarded $9 million as a whistleblower for her part in a federal investigation of the lender, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday. Mary Bozzelli, underwriter for PHH Corp., a Mount Laurel, N.J.-based mortgage lending company, raised concerns about the lending practices of the company, which […]
At least two people (or groups) have gotten a whistleblower windfall from the SEC, probably in time for a summer vacation and probably a lot more. Late last month, SEC officials revealed that for two separate cases the regulator had handed out a total of $4.2 million to two whistleblowers, bringing the total in whistleblower […]
Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay $108 million to the federal government to settle two metro Atlanta whistleblowers’ allegations that the bank charged fraudulent fees on veterans’ home refinancing loans. The settlement award, disclosed Friday by an Atlanta firm representing the whistleblowers, is the largest so far to result from the 11-year-old lawsuit. […]
In the wake of Enron and other corporate scandals that wiped out retirement savings and left millions unemployed, Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), which contains a robust whistleblower protection provision. The whistleblower provision is intended to combat a “corporate code of silence,” which “discourage[d] employees from reporting fraudulent behavior not only to the proper […]
Washington, D.C. July 28, 2017. Members of Congress and agency leaders honored whistleblowers at yesterday’s National Whistleblower Day Celebration. The event was hosted by the National Whistleblower Center, the nation’s leading whistleblower advocacy group. Strong bipartisan support for whistleblowers was apparent from both Members of Congress and the agency leader in attendance. The celebration provided an opportunity for Members […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today awarded an employee of a domestic government agency with a decent sum for his efforts towards uncovering securities law violations made by an investment scheme. The SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower today announced that the agency gave an award of $2.5 million to an anonymous tipster for […]
Two of the whistle blowers who brought global attention to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, were recently honored for their work—and they promptly showed that they are still fighting for the city and its residents. On Friday (July 21), pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of Michigan’s Hurley Medical Center and Virginia Tech University engineering professor Marc Edwards received the MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award. “Both […]
