Verizon Pays $93.5 Million To Resolve Allegations That It Overcharged Government Under Telecommunications Services Contracts

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Court Upholds Constitutionality of “Under Seal” Provision of False Claims Act

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Ohio Managed Care Plan Contractor Agrees To Pay $26 Million To Settle False Claims Act Lawsuit Alleging Medicaid Fraud

• Healthcare Fraud

New York Attorney General Plans To Use New Whistleblower Law To Crack Down On Tax Fraud

• Tax Fraud

Qui Tam Litigation Against For-Profit Colleges

Blowing The Whistle On Violations Of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

• Securities, Commodities, and Banking Fraud

The Top Settlements Of 2010

The False Claims Act In The Supreme Court

We Hand Out Our “Bad Actor Of The Year” Award For 2010

DOJ Releases False Claims Act Statistics

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Dey Inc. To Pay $280 Million To Settle False Claims Act Case Alleging That The Company Falsely Reported Inflated Drug Prices

• Best Price Fraud
• Healthcare Fraud

Pharmaceutical Company Agrees To Pay $214.5 Million To Resolve Allegations That It Engaged In Off-Label Marketing Of Seizure Medication

• Healthcare Fraud

Pharmaceutical Companies Agree To Pay $421.2 Million To Settle False Claims Act Lawsuits Alleging Medicare And Medicaid Fraud

• Healthcare Fraud

Louis Berger Group Agrees to Settle Massive Case of Fraud Involving War-Zone Contractors

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Hewlett-Packard Corporation Provides Technology In The Classroom With A Side Serving Of Fraud

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Florida Physician And Spouse Agree To Pay $22.6 Million To Settle Lawsuit Alleging That They Violated The False Claims Act By Submitting False Claims For Payment To Medicare

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Student Loan Companies Agree To Pay $57.75 Million To Settle False Claims Act Lawsuit

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Pharmaceutical Giant GlaxoSmithKline To Pay $750 Million To Resolve Criminal And Civil Allegations Relating To Sale Of Adulterated Drugs; Whistleblower Receives Record Reward

• Healthcare Fraud

California Firms Agree to Pay $4.2 Million to Resolve Allegations of Fraud against the U.S. Postal Service

• Other Government Programs Fraud

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR FALSE CLAIMS ACT CASE ON SCOPE OF PUBLIC DISCLOSURE BAR

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Pharmaceutical Giant Novartis To Pay $237.5 Million To Settle False Claims Act Lawsuits Relating To Off-Label Marketing and Kickbacks

• Healthcare Fraud

Crooked Cardiologist Agrees to Pay $20 Million to Settle Healthcare Fraud Lawsuit

• Healthcare Fraud

Our first whistleblower law newsletter–who, what and why?

Case Law Developments: Rule 9(b) as Applied to Qui Tam Complaints

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Top 5 qui tam settlements of 2010–so far.

How this year’s health care reform will impact whistleblower litigation under the False Claims Act.

• Healthcare Fraud

Dodd-Frank, and the brave new world of securities and commodities whistleblowing.

• Securities, Commodities, and Banking Fraud

Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Agrees To Pay More Than $313 Million To Settle Civil And Criminal Allegations That It Unlawfully Marketed And Sold Certain Drugs

• Healthcare Fraud
• Other Government Programs Fraud

For-Profit College Grand Canyon Education Agrees To Pay $5.2 Million To Settle False Claims Act Lawsuit

• Other Government Programs Fraud

Nelnet, Inc. To Pay $55 Million To Settle Lawsuit

• Securities, Commodities, and Banking Fraud

Hewlett Packard Reaches Agreement In Principle To Pay $50 Million To Settle False Claims Act Lawsuit

• Securities, Commodities, and Banking Fraud

Insider Trading Whistleblowers Receive $1 Million Reward From SEC

• Securities, Commodities, and Banking Fraud

New York Settles School Food Services Fraud Case For $20 Million

Wall Street Reform Passes Congress, Increases Whistleblower Protections And Rewards

• Other Government Programs Fraud
• Securities, Commodities, and Banking Fraud

Defense Contractor Northrop Grumman Agrees To Pay $12.5 To Settle False Claims Act Case

• Government Contracts Fraud

The Reverse-False-Claim Provision As A Tool For Collecting Judgment Debts Owed To The Federal Government