For many years, Michael Sullivan of our firm and his colleague Jim Breen have organized the “Whistleblower Law Symposium.” It has consistently received high marks from participants. This year’s Symposium will be available either in-person or online on Wednesday, March 13, starting at 815 am EDT. It offers 7.5 CLE…
After reporting on the SEC’s investigation and findings of 20 years of “misstatements” by the LDS Church and Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc., the Wall Street Journal‘s Jonathan Weil again reports on facts revealed by our SEC and IRS whistleblower submissions on behalf of our client, David Nielsen. Mr. Nielsen exposed…
Regarding this past Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview of our client David Nielsen, Mormon blows whistle on church’s alleged “clandestine hedge fund” (https://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/ ): Please see attached Statement, which is also reprinted below. FINCH MCCRANIE, LLP 229 PEACHTREE STREET, N.E. SUITE 2500 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303 Phone: (404) 658-9070 www.finchmccranie.com May…
On Sunday, May 14, 60 Minutes featured an interview with our IRS and SEC whistleblower client David Nielsen. My colleague Richard Rubin and I are proud to represent this principled whistleblower. #cbs #60minutes #whistleblower #finchmccranie #secwhistleblower #irswhistleblower #ensignpeak
In this week of new bank bailouts (following Silicon Valley Bank’s), a bipartisan group of five Senators has urged common sense improvements to the SEC Whistleblower laws. These Senators emphasize the “crucial role of whistleblowers” in protecting both investors and taxpayer funds. The SEC Whistleblower Reform Act of 2023, co-sponsored…
COVID-19 has required unprecedented government spending through the CARES Act and other measures. That spending creates countless opportunities for theft of funds desperately needed to fight the coronavirus. The virus has made the nation’s major “whistleblower” law–the federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) and similar state False Claims Acts –even more…
As the anxious public yearns for vaccines, treatments, and protections from the virus, the SEC has warned of a “substantial potential for fraud relating to COVID-19. The SEC’s enforcement actions against 23 companies are just the start, as more fraud will undoubtedly be uncovered. Whistleblowers are critical to the SEC’s…
Through a $465 million settlement, Finch McCranie’s Michael A. Sullivan and James J. Breen of the Breen Law Firm successfully represented a whistleblower whose qui tam case under the False Claims Act helped return hundreds of millions to the United States and various states for Medicaid rebates underpaid on new…
Today the Department of Justice announced the largest settlement in its history with a skilled nursing facility chain–a qui tam whistleblower case under the False Claims Act that our firm and our co-counsel Mark Simpson worked side-by-side with DOJ to prepare for trial. We applaud the exceptional work of DOJ’s…
This past week our firm’s Larry D. Thompson, the former Deputy Attorney General of the United States, joined me for a panel discussion that I moderated on “The False Claims Act at 30,” at the annual Taxpayers Against Fraud Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. Joining us on the panel were…