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'These are human beings': Whistleblower tells Legislature the state fails sick Texans - Lawmakers expressed shock Wednesday at the firsthand account of a former state regulator who testified that hundreds of patients suffered because they didn't get the care Texas paid giant companies to provide.

In March, Elaine Herzberg walked her bike across the street in Tempe, Arizona, unaware of the Uber self-driving car moving toward her at 38 miles per hour.

When the godfather of management consulting landed its biggest contract ever in Africa, it made the worst mistake in its storied nine-decade history. The blackouts kept coming. The state-owned power company, Eskom, was on the verge of insolvency. Maintenance was being deferred. And a major boiler exploded, threatening the national grid.

Caris Healthcare, L.P. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Caris Healthcare, LLC ("Caris Healthcare"), have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims, and knowingly retaining overpayments, for the care of patients who were ineligible for the Medicare hospice benefit because they were not terminally ill, the Department of Justice announced today. Under the settlement agreement, Caris Healthcare, a for-profit hospice chain that operates in Tennessee, Virginia, and South Carolina, has agreed to pay $8.5 million.

Volkswagen is reviewing whether to seek damages from former Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn, who was at the helm when it emerged the carmaker had cheated on emissions tests, supervisory board member Stephan Weil told a newspaper.

Carbanak's suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on. Before WannaCry, before the Sony Pictures hack, and before the breaches that opened up Equifax and Yahoo!, there was a nasty bit of malware known as Carbanak. Unlike those spectacular attacks, this malware wasn't created by people interested in paralyzing institutions for ransom, publishing embarrassing emails, or taking personal data. The Carbanak guys just wanted loot, and lots of it.

But the employee, Martin Tripp, told The Washington Post that he did not tamper with internal systems and is instead a whistleblower who spoke out after seeing "some really scary things" inside the company, including dangerously punctured batteries installed in cars.

Automotive recalls are steadily on the rise, and federal statistics estimate that about 30 percent of them go without being repaired. Recalls such as the widespread Takata airbag recall regularly make the news, and automotive website Jalopnik recently investigated the story of a recalled Ford Escape that caught on fire even though it wasn't running, burning up an entire cargo ship.

The lawsuits were filed under whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act, which permit citizens with knowledge of fraud against the government to file action on behalf of the United States and share in any recovery.

The whistleblower who outed Cambridge Analytica for improperly accessing millions of Facebook users' personal information warned on Tuesday that unchecked data collection and targeting on social media threaten Web users' privacy — and the healthy functioning of democracy.

Audi's CEO Rupert Stadler is "ready to talk" after being arrested in connection with the emissions-cheating scandal. Meanwhile, the company's executive board is deliberating his replacement.

Being in charge of a business during a scandal that misled consumers, spewed pollutants into the atmosphere and helped incinerate billions of your parent company's capital might get you sacked at many places. At Volkswagen AG, it gets you promoted.

A former Barclays trader on trial for allegedly rigging the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) was a whistleblower for the lowballing scandal that rocked the banking industry, a court has heard.

Last month, the bank also agreed to pay $480 million to resolve a securities fraud lawsuit filed with the District Court for the Northern District of California which alleged the bank made certain misstatements and omissions in disclosures related to its sales practices.

When evidence emerged that Audi had played a major role in developing illegal emissions software on Mr. Stadler's watch, he and most other top executives kept their jobs.

Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal, the Buzzfeed investigative reporter details how the unlikeliest of countries the one that cares the least about soccer became the one that finally exposed its criminal underbelly.

A German court ruled on Friday that investors pushing for damages over a sharp fall in Volkswagen shares after the carmaker disclosed emissions cheating in 2015 can also seek redress from majority shareholder Porsche SE.

Most people know about the largest auto-related recall in history, prompted by defective Takata airbags in 37 million vehicles, but millions of other vehicles are also under recall.

A whistleblower by the name of Crystal Derrick informed federal agencies that Roche Diagnostics overpaid Humana $45 million in drug rebates. Derrick's testimony also suggested that Roche Diagnostics offered to accept a $27.5 million of the $45 million and would allow Humana to keep the remainder.

Volkswagen has been fined 1 billion euros ($1.18 billion) by public prosecutors in Germany over diesel emissions cheating and said it will accept the fine, therefore admitting responsibility for the scandal.