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In this increasingly ripe climate of reporting fraud through whistleblowing, there are a few areas that stand out as the major hotbeds - breeding grounds for fraud against the government and the public. Here are five stand-out fields where whistleblowers are making a difference and submitting claims in record numbers.

Arrests at JFK, Alleges it submitted inflated claims in connection with a State Department contract, double invoicing scheme designed to defraud the US of millions of dollars, used shell affiliates to improperly induce the Government to fund and award task orders, disguise actual costs, misrepresent what work was actually performed, and capture unlawful profit.

lawsuit alleges company bribed dealers to falsely boost sales numbers. "ghost employees" and a scheme to overbill the county, truck cartel operated for 14 years before being busted. allegations of drug marketing fraud and physician kickbacks. Two ex-brokers hit Morgan Stanley with a $20 million lawsuit

Atlantas Group, Inc. and Edmund Hysni to Pay in Total $7.2 Million, House report on HSBC Settlement, Herballife settlement

Columbia University sought and received excessive cost repayments in connection with federal research grants, retailer's lawsuit seeking coverage for a whistleblower suit, hospice defrauded Medicare by billing services for hospice patients who were not terminally ill

"This Court now has the opportunity to send a message, loud and clear, that our financial markets operate on principles of honesty and transparency, and do not allow a select few traders to profit in the trading markets through illegal bait and switch schemes at the expense of other traders."

companies were ordered to pay more than $7.75 million for knowingly submitting false claims to Medicare, A federal court this week dismissed a False Claims Act lawsuit brought against Cardiovascular Systems after $8m settlement, billions being recovered by state and local government, law firm sued for $117m over allegedly bad advice in whistle-blower suit

complaint claims Oracle violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, and the California Labor Code

the first person convicted of spoofing after it was made a crime under the Dodd-Frank Act, was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge in Chicago, spoofing Explained

Bank guilty of 'blatant failure' to implement money-laundering controls and wilfully flouted sanctions, US prosecutors say

IRS investigation into whether FB significantly understated the value of property transferred to an Ireland subsidiary, Johnson Controls agreed Monday to pay $14 million to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Citigroup Global Markets has agreed to pay a $7 million penalty and admit wrongdoing

The investigation centers on potential bribery violations by Och-Ziff, in accepting capital from a Libyan sovereign wealth fund, as well as in Zimbabwe and Congo,

suit accusing Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and others of fraudulently obtaining federal mortgage insurance on deceptively priced home loans

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Sean McKessy, Chief of the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower, is planning to leave the agency later this month.

Knowingly presented false claims and altered records to get false claims paid Will pay millions to settle allegations

Four former Barclays bankers have been sentenced to between 33 months and six-and-a-half years in jail for conspiring to fraudulently rig global benchmark interest rates. India-born Jay Merchant, 45, the most senior of the men to face a jury in the case, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years. The New York-based former derivatives trader was convicted unanimously.

The Kemper coal plant is more than two years behind schedule and more than $4 billion over its initial budget, $2.4 billion, and it is still not operational.

The U.S. Department of Justice arrested a record 301 individuals on health-care fraud allegations in late June. New Jersey laboratory accused of orchestrating one of the nation's largest kickback schemes ordered to forfeit all of its assets

Three former Barclays employees have been found guilty of rigging the Libor interest rate between 2005 and 2007. The Libor rate is used by banks to set prices of financial products. It stands for the London inter-bank offered rate, and underpins trillions of pounds worth of loans and financial contracts for households and companies across the world. The University of Missouri-Columbia has agreed to pay the United States $2.2 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act Drug and device makers handed over almost $6.5 billion to doctors and medical institutions in 2015, according to the latest release from the U.S. government's Open Payments database.