News about Keller Grover, and current events in whistleblower & employment law

In June the Supreme Court issued an opinion that affirmed the government’s broad discretion to intervene after a whistleblower files a False Claims Act case, and move to dismiss the case against the whistleblower’s objections. Six months later, however, the Justice Department indicates it has no plans to broadly use this dismissal authority on non-intervened FCA cases. Here’s more about the case at issue: In U.S. ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., et al., whistleblower … [Read more...]

The IRS Whistleblower Office paid $37.75 million in awards to 132 whistleblowers in fiscal 2022, according to its latest annual report.  “The IRS uses increasingly sophisticated data analytics and other methods to detect non-compliance with tax laws, but we can’t find it all by ourselves,” office director John Hinman said in the report. “We need help from whistleblowers — people with firsthand knowledge of noncompliance who are willing to share what they know with us so we can investigate it … [Read more...]

Crypto/digital asset schemes drove a record number of whistleblower tips to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the past year. The CFTC Whistleblower Program, established under the Dodd-Frank Act, awarded $16 million to seven whistleblowers for their help during the year that ended Sept. 30. More than $15 million went to two whistleblowers who provided significant information and help for separate, successful enforcement cases. In its annual Whistleblower Program report, … [Read more...]