Whistleblower News

In another example of how the government turns to whistleblowers to help discover and shut down fraud it isn’t able to ferret out on its own, the Justice Department is launching a program this year: a DOJ whistleblower program that will grant monetary awards to whistleblowers who deliver tips on significant corporate or financial misconduct.U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the program during a legal conference this month. She said the goal is to address the “full range of … [Read more...]

The U.S. Department of Justice reported record False Claims Act numbers last month: $2.68 billion in False Claims Act 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 … [Read more...]

Companies that engage in conduct designed to avoid paying custom duties and charges are committing fraud against the federal government. And customs fraud 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 … [Read more...]

The Supreme Court strengthened Sarbanes-Oxley 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 … [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...]