This afternoon I had the privilege of joining the Inspector General of Georgia’s Department of Community Health, Doug Colburn, in serving as the two invited witnesses who were asked to explain how the new “State False Medicaid Claims Act” would work, in testimony before the full Judiciary Committee of the…
The new IRS Whistleblower Rewards Program that we have been discussing is featured in the March 13 issue of Smart Money Magazine–and Smart Money cites our Whistleblower blog and quotes one of our authors. The Smart Money reporter, Lisa Scherzer, contacted our firm, Finch McCranie, LLP, to discuss the IRS…
We were excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed an important new whistleblower protection law, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. We have discussed this new whistleblower bill previously, as an encouraging development for whistleblowers and whistleblower lawyers. The new whistleblower law would protect federal employees and,…
Whistleblowerlawyerblog Author Testifies In Support of Georgia Department of Community Health’s “State False Medicaid Claims Act” This morning, a new state False Claims Act cleared a hurdle as it was approved by a Georgia legislative subcommittee. Georgia’s new “State False Medicaid Claims Act,” which has qui tam whistleblower provisions similar…
We found a very interesting article from last week’s Legal Times, with an excerpt of interest to whistleblower lawyers as follows: “Last fall, the Justice Department launched a National Procurement Fraud Task Force to focus “resources at all levels of government to increase criminal enforcement” in areas of procurement fraud.…
The IRS agents we have been meeting with since January to pursue whistleblower claims under the new IRS Whistleblower Rewards Program have a new boss, the IRS announced today. The Criminal Investigative Division of the IRS will be led by Eileen Mayer, who was most recently head of the IRS’s…
We were encouraged to see that Georgia has just joined the states that are considering a State “False Claims Act” with whistleblower provisions. As we have discussed before on the Whistleblower Lawyer Blog, Congress has created great financial incentives for states that pass their own versions of the federal False…
Congressional Committee Explores Contractor Overcharges Of great interest to whistleblower lawyers is how much suspected fraud and abuse has occurred in Iraq reconstruction contracts. Goverment auditors recently announced that they now believe that Iraq contractor fraud and abuse may be three times greater than the previous estimates–and may affect one…
Since we began the Whistleblower Lawyer Blog to discuss topics of interest to attorneys, potential whistleblowers and others about developments in the new IRS Whistleblower Rewards Program, in qui tam litigation under the False Claims Act, and other whistleblower developments that might be of interest to other lawyers or whistleblowers,…
Recognizing how important whistleblowers are to stopping fraud, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today approved the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (H.R. 985). The new whistleblower protections would apply to federal employees and government contractors. The law would establish whistleblower protections for scientific, intelligence and transportation security employees.…