Whistleblower News

The U.S. Department of Justice reported record False Claims Act numbers last month: $2.68 billion in recoveries from 543 settlements and judgments in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023. And for the second straight year, these record numbers show the importance of non-intervened whistleblower cases. Those are lawsuits filed by whistleblowers under the False Claims Act that federal prosecutors declined to intervene in, leaving the whistleblowers and their attorneys, like those at Keller … [Read more...]

Companies that engage in conduct designed to avoid paying custom duties and charges are committing fraud against the federal government. And whistleblowers are often the only people who can alert the government that these types of frauds are happening and how they operate. The government has recovered more than $220 million over the past 12 years in settling 43 False Claims Act cases alleging customs fraud, according to the The Anti-Fraud Coalition. Of those 43 cases, initiated by internal … [Read more...]

The Supreme Court strengthened whistleblower protections in a unanimous decision this month, rejecting an argument that financial whistleblowers need to prove their employers acted with “retaliatory intent” to recover damages when they are fired for engaging in protected activity under the law. The 9-0 vote was a win for former UBS Securities bond strategist Trevor Murray, who had filed a whistleblower complaint under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) saying he was fired from UBS for reporting … [Read more...]

Are there too many False Claims Act cases? Not only do the numbers say no, but the inference by FCA opponents that whistleblowers are filing frivolous suits is misguided. First, let’s look at the numbers. Jacklyn DeMar of The Anti-Fraud Coalition argues we actually need more FCA cases to root out the likely amount of fraud that exists in a $6.27 trillion, yes trillion, federal budget. Of the 309,102 new civil cases filed in the United States in 2022, only 652 were qui tam actions — … [Read more...]

At Keller Grover, we often see a surge of whistleblower reports after the new year. This can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes people are fired or pushed out of a job toward the end of the year for speaking out about wrongdoing. Others may have discussed something they witnessed at work with friends and family over the holidays and feel compelled to step forward. And others just want to start the year fresh. Whatever the reason, now is as good a time as any to report a fraud on the … [Read more...]