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When we first met Lynn Szymoniak on 60 Minutes last year, she was an angry homeowner facing foreclosure. Now, Szymoniak is walking away with an $18 million settlement
Yet another surprise has bubbled forth in the $25 billion settlement between big banks and various state and federal officials: JPMorgan will pay $45 million to settle
Company informants tempted by the prospect of multimillion dollar payouts are rushing to US regulators with audio recordings and internal documents to take advantage
Gerald Zirnstein grinds his own hamburger these days. Why? Because this former United States Department of Agriculture scientist and, now, whistleblower, knows
One of the nation's largest providers of hospice care has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a Medicare fraud case initiated after a former company nurse in Milwaukee
Moody's Investors Service was ordered to defend against a lawsuit by a whistleblowing former analyst who claimed it illegally retaliated against him for questioning its
Whistle-blower Stephanie Schweizer wasn't interested in settling her government-contracting fraud suit for $1.2 million, an amount far from the $165 million
Getting ready to blow the whistle? Be careful who you hand the information to. Whistleblowers who go to the FBI to tip them off about financial fraud "are probably going
A whistle-blower who claimed Verizon Communications overcharged the federal government contracts is entitled to 20 percent of Verizon's $93 million settlement
Hagens Berman represents Kyle Lagow, a former employee of home appraisal company LandSafe, Inc. in a whistleblower suit filed under the qui tam provision of
About 36% of the almost $16 billion recovered by the Justice Department in health care whistle-blower fraud cases has come since 2009, records show, which reflects
Steve Berman, managing partner at Hagens Berman and co-lead counsel for the economic loss plaintiffs in the Toyota sudden, unintended acceleration litigation, today released
Charlie Sheen isn't the only one the actor's outlandish behavior has gotten in trouble. A former Washington, D.C., police commander whose division provided Sheen
A whistleblower just helped the government force Citigroup to pay $158.3 million to settle claims that it falsely portrayed mortgages as meeting the standards for
For the third time in less than a year, the Justice Department has busted out the Civil War-era False Claims Act to sue a major bank for fraud in connection with the
Fort Lee, N.J.-based Dava Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $11 million to settle charges that it misreported drug prices in order to reduce its Medicaid drug rebate
The Internal Revenue Service has reached a settlement with a California-based employee who blew the whistle on mismanagement by a contractor, the Office of Special
A federal law that protects employees at public companies when they blow the whistle on alleged fraud does not apply to mutual funds, a US appeals court ruled Friday.
Yesterday, there was a belated celebration of the 25th anniversary of the False Claims Amendments Act of 1986. The Department of Justice marked the occasion with
