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1 week ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 22, The Anti-Fraud Coalition (TAF Coalition) sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Crypto Task Force calling for the continuation of strong enforcement of crypto fraud.
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1 week ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 15, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the bipartisan AI Whistleblower Protection Act, which provides anti-retaliation protections to AI insiders reporting safety concerns to regulators or supervisors. In a new article for Tech Policy Press, Sophie Luskin, Senior Tech Policy Analyst at the whistleblower firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, details what the bill means for tech workers.
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1 week ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 29, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a $700,000 whistleblower award granted to an individual who voluntarily provided original information that led to a successful enforcement action.
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1 week ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 22, National Whistleblower Center (NWC) joined the National Employment Lawyers Association / New York (NELA/NY) and Towards Justice in an Amicus Curiae brief arguing that the New York State Supreme Court should reconsider New York State’s policy of favoring arbitration in light of the 2022 Supreme Court ruling in Morgan v. Sundance. The case, Daniel Michalow v.
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1 week ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 21, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee announced that Agendia, Inc., a global molecular diagnostics company that offers genomic testing designed to profile certain types of breast cancer, agreed to pay the government at least $3,250,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA). The settlement stems from two separate qui tam lawsuits filed by whistleblowers, Dr. Raymond Brig and Lance Albertson.
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2 weeks ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 22, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay allowing for the Trump administration’s termination of Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) chair Cathy Harris to stand while her lawsuit challenging her termination works its way through the courts. The order formalizes a temporary emergency stay granted in April and means that the MSPB, the quasi-judicial agency which oversees retaliation cases for federal employee whistleblowers, will continue without a quorum needed to issue decisions.
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2 weeks ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 16, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York announced a nearly $3.3 million settlement with Catholic Health System, Inc. (CHS) to resolve whistleblower allegations that CHS violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by knowingly submitting or causing to be submitted false claims to the Medicare program that were the result of violations of the Stark Law. The case stems from a qui tam lawsuit filed by a whistleblower, who will receive a portion of the settlement.
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2 weeks ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
In the first months of his second term, President Trump fired several key federal appointees crucial to the federal whistleblower protection system, including Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger and Chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Cathy Harris. Trump’s firing of these figures without cause, despite statutory language requiring cause for their removal, drew widespread criticism and concern from whistleblower advocates. In a new paper, leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M.
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2 weeks ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 14, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California announced that Community Health System and its affiliate Physician Network Advantage Inc. (PNA) agreed to pay $31.5 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that they violated the False Claims Act through the payment of illegal kickbacks to physicians. The case stems from a qui tam suit filed by whistleblower Michael Terpening, who is set to receive approximately $5 million of the settlement.
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2 weeks ago | 
whistleblowersblog.org | Geoff Schweller
On May 20, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Billy Long, President Trump’s nominee for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner. During the hearing, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a longtime Congressional champion of whistleblower rights, asked Long about his support for the IRS’s hugely important whistleblower program.
