April 14, 2015
“Confidentiality Agreements Must Not Protect Crimes.”
Article by Erika A. Kelton and Stephen S. Hasegawa published in The Wall Street Journal, 4/14/15. “For more than 25 years we have seen companies make overblown claims of trade secrets and business...
April 02, 2015
“SEC Hits Back At KBR And Other Corporate Bullies Who Threaten Whistleblowers.”
Article by Erika Kelton published on Forbes.com, 4/2/15. “The Securities and Exchange Commission scored a major win on behalf of whistleblowers this week in an enforcement action against engineering...
August 06, 2014
“The SEC’s Secret Enforcement Weapon: Whistleblowers.”
Article by Stephen Hasegawa published in Private Funds Management, 8/6/14. The Dodd-Frank Act brought greater regulation and greater Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) scrutiny over the private equity...
March 25, 2014
“The lurking risks of hospital-employed physicians: Stark, Anti-Kickback and False Claims Act compliance.”
Article by Peter W. Chatfield published in Healthcare Finance News, 3/25/2014. The federal laws prohibiting hospitals from paying physicians for referrals are not new, but hospitals need to be on notice:...
April 27, 2012
“Can The SEC Be Trusted To Protect A Whistleblower’s Identity?”
Article by Erika A. Kelton published in Forbes, 4/27/12. The whistleblower world and Wall Street are abuzz with the question of whether the Securities and Exchange Commission inadvertently revealed the...
December 13, 2010
“SEC whistle-blower program worth protecting.”
Article by Erika A. Kelton published in The Washington Post, 12/13/2010. Washington’s business lobby has sprung into action to kill the new Securities and Exchange Commission whistle-blower program...
March 20, 2006
“Qui Tam Lawsuits and You.”
Article by Erika A. Kelton published in Drug Topics, 3/20/2006. Business practices in the pharmaceutical industry are changing largely as a result of whistleblower (“qui tam”) cases...
July 01, 2000
“The False Claims Act and Wall Street: How a qui tam case reformed the municipal bond market.”
Article by Erika Kelton published in False Claims Act and Qui Tam Quarterly Review, July 2000. In December 1993, Michael R. Lissack was on vacation in Florida and read a brief article in the financial...
May 12, 1999
“Privatizing customs fraud enforcement under the False Claims Act.”
Article by Erika Kelton published in International Trade Reporter, 5/12/99. A new era in customs fraud enforcement is emerging as a result of a Civil War-era law. The law, known as the False Claims Act,...
March 18, 1999
“Blowing the whistle on customs fraud.”
Article by Erika Kelton published in Journal of Commerce, 3/18/1999. When the Customs Service issues its annual “Accountability Report” this spring, one key statistic will probably be missing:...