More than a decade after Lehman collapsed, six women who worked at the bank's subprime-mortgage unit are still accusing a former colleague of sexual harassment -- and still waiting for answers.
About $190m in cryptocurrency has been locked away in a online black hole after the founder of a currency exchange died, apparently taking his encrypted access to their money with him.
The allegations stem from three lawsuits that were filed under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act, which permit private citizens to bring suit on behalf of the United States for false claims and share in any recovery.
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.
Nearly 100 women — from Gwyneth Paltrow to Salma Hayek — have since come forward with their stories of how the burly, brash and bullying co-head of The Weinstein Company (and formerly of Miramax) reportedly engaged in inappropriate behavior against their will. (Weinstein, 66, is currently awaiting trial).
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.
Police have charged a male nurse with sexual assault and abuse of a vulnerable adult less than a month after a woman in a vegetative state unexpectedly gave birth at a health-care facility in Phoenix.
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.
The EPA and Department of Justice this month announced a settlement with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that amounts to some $800 million in civil fines, recall repairs and environmental remediation, and, pending court approval, a settlement with vehicle owners.
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.
An elite all-boys private school in suburban Maryland revealed that seven of its alumni have reported sexual abuse by a longtime teacher, more than 50 years after the alleged acts.
A former employee at Kia's corporate headquarters says he warned the automaker as far back as 2017 that faulty engine recall work was to blame for car fires.
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.
It's the stuff of nightmares: Your loved one, who you thought was being well cared for in a long-term care facility or nursing home, was physically abused, raped or even impregnated.