Whistleblowers

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued its annual report this month. The 31-page document evidences the CFTC’s heightened anti-fraud efforts and the increased rewards that we are seeing for those who come forward to report fraud through the CFTC...

There is presently a disagreement among federal courts as to the scope of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation authority under the Dodd-Frank Act. The CFTC’s primary focus has always been on swaps and commodity futures...

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico recently announced the enactment of House Bill 1627, simultaneously enacting a Puerto Rican False Claims Act and authorizing the establishment of a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The new law allows whistleblowers to report any fraudulent...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently announced a whistleblower award of more than $70,000 to a foreign whistleblower, a first of its kind award for a foreign individual who significantly contributed to an ongoing CFTC investigation that led the...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced its largest-ever whistleblower award of approximately $30 million today.  The CFTC wrote that the whistleblower “voluntarily provided key original information that led to a successful enforcement action.”   The...

The Department of Justice recently settled two cases involving alleged violations of the False Claims Act by healthcare providers. The Department of Justice issued a press release on June 25th stating that Caris Healthcare, L.P. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Caris...

The SEC voted today to propose amendments to its SEC Whistleblower Program rules.  The SEC Whistleblower Program was established in 2010 and provides that if an individual presents the SEC with original information concerning a violation of federal securities laws...

The American Bar Association (“ABA”), the regulatory body that oversees law school accreditation across the country, has recently been sued by the Florida Coastal School of Law, the now-defunct Charlotte School of Law, and most recently Arizona Summit Law School. All...

At a recent ABA conference on the Civil False Claims Act and Qui Tam Enforcement, the Acting Associate Attorney General, Jesse Panuccio, delivered remarks touching on a wide range of qui tam issues and Department of Justice policies including the Department’s...

In January 2018, the New York / New Jersey Port Authority enacted its own False Claims policy as part of sweeping integrity reforms designed to ensure that fraud and ethical misconduct by contractors and vendors are detected and stopped. The new False Claims policy...