According to state officials, increased enforcement has helped the state of Texas recover more than $500 million in Medicaid fraud cases since 2007. David Morales, deputy first assistant attorney general, told Texas state senators earlier this week that the increase coincides with the expansion of the Texas Medicaid civil fraud division four years ago. State [...]
An arbitrator has ruled that Dimitrios Biller, a former Toyota attorney turned whistleblower, can submit internal Toyota documents in court to prove his claim that the company instructed him to hide evidence of product defects from the public. Biller, who handled product liability lawsuits for Toyota, claims the automaker regularly hid evidence of safety defects [...]
The United States has intervened in a False Claims Act suit filed against software manufacturer Oracle. The government charges that the company bamboozled the government by charging it higher prices than the deeply discounted prices offered to Oracle’s commercial customers. According to the Justice Department, the scheme violated federal regulations governing General Services Administration contractors [...]
It often seems that government contractor fraud against the United States is limited primarily to the fields of health care and the military. But no. Government contractor fraud can be found quite literally in the fields, specifically the fields of Kansas – in which state the U.S. has brought a False Claims Act lawsuit against [...]
