Year: 2011

WASHINGTON, DC – The Internal Revenue Service has paid a $1.1 million reward to a whistleblower represented by Phillips & Cohen LLP for information that exposed an alleged tax fraud scheme by...

Two companies have paid over $16.5 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that they systematically overcharged the US government for desktop telephone services. Avaya Inc. paid over $13 million to...

Forest Pharmaceuticals has been ordered to pay a criminal fine of $150 million and forfeit assets of $14 million, resulting from their guilty plea last year. In November of 2010, the drug company admitted...

The New York Post published the following letter to the editor from Phillips & Cohen partners Erika A. Kelton advocating more funding for the SEC Whistleblower Office. Whistle Stop Allegations of...

The Government Accountability Office has released its list of government agencies at the highest risk for fraud and other costly abuses. While some agencies have been removed from the list due to improvements,...

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), has announced his intention to focus on fraud enforcement in a hearing that will be held on January 26. The hearing, entitled “Protecting...

In an unfolding whistleblower case, the federal government has accused New York City of overbilling Medicaid by “at least tens of millions of dollars.” The complaint alleges excessive and improper...

Fastenal Company, a national hardware distributor, has agreed to pay $6.25 million to settle allegations that it violated terms related to a contract with the US General Services Administration (GSA)....