The power of the whistleblower is one of the few concessions still held among the working folk in our increasingly corporate society. This, after all, is the decade that started off with Citizen’s United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court’s surprising campaign finance decision allowing corporations and private citizens to give unlimited amounts to [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa was the primary Senate sponsor of 1986 amendments to the federal False Claims Act that bolstered and updated the statute’s whistleblower provisions. Now, the longtime False Claims Act proponent is working to ensure that recent changes to the federal law are made part of fourteen state False Claims Acts [...]
Senator Chuck Grassley, longtime proponent of strengthening the federal False Claims Act in order to fight fraud against the government, is now working to ensure that recent changes to that statute are made part of fourteen state False Claims Acts patterned after the federal model. Many states have enacted legislation similar to the federal statute [...]
