Whistleblower News

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...]

As 2023 wraps up, it’s worth a look back at what has been a defining year for whistleblowers, for False Claims Act recoveries and for whistleblower law.Pandemic Relief and Health Care Fraud Came to Light After the flood of pandemic-related stimulus money, 2023 saw a series of prosecutions related to misuse of those funds — brought to light by people who spoke up about the fraudulent use of public money. Whistleblowers also continued to alert the government to troubling allegations of fraud … [Read more...]

Keller Grover attorney Kathleen R. Scanlan joined Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Commercial Litigation Branch, Michael D. Granston, to discuss their views on whistleblower law and the critical role whistleblowers play in False Claims Act enforcement as panelists during a Nov. 2 webinar sponsored by the Federal Bar Association’s Qui Tam Section.Representing Qui Tam Whistleblowers Under the False Claims Act Ms. Scanlan primarily represents whistleblowers … [Read more...]

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.The Case Behind the Polansky Decision Here’s more about the case at issue: In U.S. ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health … [Read more...]

The IRS Whistleblower Office paid $37.75 million in IRS whistleblower 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 … [Read more...]