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That sent the recipient "over the moon," according to Angelo Agrizzi, a businessman — and now whistle-blower — who detailed, at a continuing government inquiry into public corruption, extravagant bribes doled out to members of the party, the African National Congress, at the highest levels of government.

To become a whistle-blower, Darren Sewell had filed what is known as a "qui tam" complaint the term comes from a Latin phrase that translates as "he who brings an action for the king as well as for himself."

The Food and Drug Administration is sacrificing American lives by continuing to approve new high-strength opioid painkillers, and manipulating the process in favor of big pharma, according to the chair of the agency's own opioid advisory committee.

How did the world's youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye?

John Varley, the former chief executive of Barclays, is the first bank boss in the world to face a jury trial over alleged crimes during the global financial crisis a decade ago.

Once again, in fiscal year 2018 health care fraud cases represented the overwhelming majority of successful qui tam cases filed under the federal False Claims Act. Nearly 90% of the money recovered under the False Claims Act last year a total of $2.51 billionwas recovered in health care fraud cases.

Mitsubishi Motors has joined Nissan in accusing Carlos Ghosn of financial wrongdoing, saying on Friday that he secretly received compensation of 7.8 million euros, or almost $9 million, from a joint venture of the two automakers.

Goldman Sachs' new CEO is apologizing for the role of a former banker in Malaysia's multi-billion dollar embezzlement scandal.

Attorney general nominee William Barr reversed his position on the False Claims Act, a law used to fight fraud against the government that serves as a key tool for whistleblowers.

Pacific Gas and Electric said on Monday that it would seek bankruptcy protection as "the only viable option" as the giant California utility faces billions of dollars in liability claims from two years of deadly wildfires.

Every whistleblower should be concerned over President Donald Trump's nomination of William Barr as Attorney General.

The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in a nationwide scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication and has agreed to become a government witness.

HSBC Holdings Plc has agreed to pay $30 million to settle litigation by investors who accused 11 big banks of rigging the roughly $9 trillion government agency bond market from 2009 to 2015.

Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio made a secret appearance before a D.C. grand jury in recent months to testify as part of the Justice Department's expansive investigation into a multibillion-dollar fraud surrounding a Malaysian government investment fund, according to people familiar with the case.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Gilead Sciences Inc's appeal of a ruling that allowed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it defrauded the government into paying for HIV medications whose main ingredient came from an unregistered Chinese facility to move forward.

On Thursday, three ex-Credit Suisse Group AG bankers were arrested in London and face possible extradition to the U.S. on charges related to bribery of officials in Mozambique.

The final rules, which implement a mandate from the Dodd-Frank Act, will require disclosure of practices or policies in full, or, alternatively, a summary of those practices or policies that includes a description of any categories of hedging transactions that are specifically permitted or disallowed.

The DOJ collected more than $2.5 billion in judgments and settlements related to healthcare fraud and false claims in 2018.

The Department of Justice obtained more than $2.8 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio and Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the Department of Justice's Civil Division announced today.

As investigators seek to determine the cause of the deadliest wildfire in California history, the culprit that fire officials have linked to more than a dozen fires that ravaged large swaths of Northern California last year is again in the hot seat.