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ALBANY, NEW YORK: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York has agreed to pay the United States $3,750,000 to resolve allegations that its Center for Development of Human Services (CDHS) violated the False Claims Act by manipulating audits it...

Enjoy this video from the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund.  It explains the False Claims Act and why whistleblowers are so important to taxpayers and our communities.

Rite Aid Corporation, a Delaware corporation and national retail drugstore chain with its principal place of business in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, has paid the United States $2.99 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by inappropriately...

The United States has filed a complaint against Orlando, Florida, based Air Ideal Inc. and its owner, Kim Amkraut, for allegedly making false statements to the Small Business Administration (SBA) to obtain certification as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone...

Karin Berntsen – James Hoyer Client The whistleblower case filed against Prime Healthcare by James Hoyer client Karin Berntsen has cleared a major hurdle.  The defendant’s Motion to Dismiss the case was denied in its entirety.  Judge Patrick Walsh of the U.S. District...

The United States has filed suit against Creekside Hospice II LLC, Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. (SKG), its holding company, and Skilled Healthcare LLC (SKH), an administrative services subsidiary of SKG that operates Creekside (collectively the Creekside entities),...

The Department of Justice announced today it recovered nearly $6 Billion from False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2014.  It is the first annual recovery to exceed $5 Billion.  More than 700 Whistleblower Lawsuits were filed for second consecutive year. Noted in the...

Al Tompkins – Poynter Institute As the country awaits the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri on whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, the question of what exactly a grand jury does is of prime interest. Al...

CareAll Management LLC and its affiliated entities (collectively “CareAll”) have agreed to pay $25 million, plus interest, to the United States and the state of Tennessee to resolve allegations that CareAll violated the False Claims Act by submitting false and upcoded...

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said preventing fraud is a priority to ensure that people who truly need assistance can get it. Ocean Dental had been accused of submitting false claims to the Oklahoma Medicaid program for dental restorations by former employee...