On January 15, 2025, the Department of Justice announced that False Claims Act settlements and judgments for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024 totaled more than $2.9 billion. In making this announcement, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer emphasized the critical role that the False Claims Act plays in guarding against fraud on the government.Continuing a trend over recent years, more than half of the amounts recovered, over $1.67 billion of the $2.9 … [Read more...]
Medicare Advantage Fraud: Whistleblowers Could Protect the Most Vulnerable Patients and Taxpayers
Alarming patterns keep cropping up in the Medicare Advantage program, and whistleblowers who spot Medicare Advantage fraud could be key to protecting both patients and taxpayers.More than half of the roughly 100 million Medicare beneficiaries choose this program, which is supposed to offer patients a health plan comparable to traditional Medicare administered by private insurance companies at less cost to the government. The problem: As more and more beneficiaries have elected Medicare … [Read more...]
Tariff Evasion, Customs Fraud, and How Whistleblowers Can Help
You’ve probably heard plenty about tariffs lately, including a heavy dose of speculation.What you may not have heard about is tariff evasion: the fraudulent measures some companies take in an effort to evade them and essentially get an unfair pricing advantage by defrauding the federal government. If existing tariffs increase or new ones are imposed, we’ll likely see more attempts to evade them, including fraudulent labeling or transshipment, which involves shipping to an intermediate … [Read more...]
Money Laundering Whistleblower Rewards and the Historic TD Bank Settlement
TD Bank last month became the largest bank in U.S. history to plead guilty to Bank Secrecy Act program failures and to conspiracy to commit money laundering.The dubious distinction came with agreements to pay more than $3 billion in penalties — the largest penalty ever imposed under the act.Internal bank communications showed that employees knew lax internal policies made TD Bank, the nation’s 10th-largest bank, an easy solution for criminal networks.What’s not known: How the … [Read more...]
Report Crypto Fraud: Losses Hit $5.6B and Whistleblowers Can Help
Online scams are soaring, drawing the eye of federal enforcers, who want the help of whistleblowers to report crypto fraud and other schemes so they can prosecute and stop fraudsters.Cryptocurrency-related complaints, an up-and-coming area of fraud, hit $5.6 billion in losses last year, up 45 percent from 2022, according to an FBI report. Investment fraud accounted for the bulk of the crimes with a cryptocurrency nexus, followed by tech support scams, personal data breaches, extortion, … [Read more...]
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