January 12, 2022
Whistleblower’s pain management clinics billing fraud case settles for $7.4M
New York City, NY, Jan. 12, 2022 — A group of pain management clinics and surgery centers in New Jersey and New York City and their physician owner have agreed to pay the government $7.4 million to settle...
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December 18, 2021
SEC And CFTC Whistleblowers Flex In 2021
In an article for Forbes.com, Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton extolls the incredible achievements by Dodd-Frank whistleblowers in 2021, including the blockbuster revelations of Facebook whistleblower...
December 15, 2021
“Defense Attorneys Speak Out About Grewal’s Get-Tough Tactics at the SEC”
Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy provides his perspective as a former head of the SEC whistleblower program to New Jersey Law Journal’s coverage of SEC enforcement chief Gurbir Grewal’s...
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December 08, 2021
SEC whistleblower program has a blockbuster year
The US Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower program had a record-breaking year in a number of ways, according to the SEC’s recently released 2021 Annual Report to Congress on the whistleblower...
November 30, 2021
Watch Out, Wall Street – Record Number Of Whistleblowers Flock To The SEC
Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton explores how whistleblowers led the SEC’s whistleblower program to astonishing new records during a phenomenally successful fiscal year in her latest article...
Whistleblower case against compounding drug wholesaler gets boost from DOJ
The Department of Justice’s decision to join a whistleblower case against a Houston company that sells drug ingredients to compounding pharmacies is the latest government enforcement effort to crack...
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November 22, 2021
“Working From Home Could Be Giving Corporate Whistleblowers the Push They Need”
In a Wall Street Journal newsletter, Phillips & Cohen whistleblower attorney Erika Kelton discusses the difference that work-from-home policies make in employees’ decisions to blow the whistle. The...
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November 18, 2021
“After Cracking Down on ‘Nonsense,’ SEC Whistleblower Program Has Record-Breaking Year”
Law.com interviews Phillips & Cohen partner and former SEC whistleblower office chief Sean McKessy in its Compliance Hot Spots newsletter about trends that have boosted recent successes of the SEC...
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November 17, 2021
Supreme Court rejects appeal in whistleblowers’ Medicare fraud kickbacks case
WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 17, 2021 – The US Supreme Court has rejected an effort by a healthcare marketing consultant to overturn a $114 million jury verdict against him and two others in a Medicare billing...
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“Archdiocese of New Orleans to Pay $1 Million to Settle FEMA Fraud Claims”
The New York Times cites Phillips & Cohen partner Jeffrey Dickstein about the nature of fraud against the government in its coverage of a $1 million False Claims Act settlement by the Archdiocese of...
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