February 22, 2013
“DOJ Intervenes in Whistleblower Suit Against Lance Armstrong.”
Colette Matzzie in Legal Times, 2/22/13. “The United States invests considerable resources in the investigation of cases, interviewing witnesses and reviewing documents, to consider the validity of...
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February 05, 2013
“Erika Kelton on the Rise of SEC Whistleblower Cases.”
Erika Kelton in Corporate Crime Reporter, 2/5/13. Kelton a pro at bringing whistleblower cases. She has a couple of billion-dollar-plus False Claims Act qui tam cases under her belt . . . . But a significant...
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January 17, 2013
“Floyd Landis whistleblower suit targets more than Lance Armstrong.”
Peter Chatfield in The Washington Post, 1/17/13. False Claims Act whistleblower suits, which date from the Civil War era, are a mechanism for encouraging someone with information about fraud against the...
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January 03, 2013
FDA’s Campaign to Control the Practice of Medicine – Letter to the Editor
The Wall Street Journal published the following letter to the editor written by Phillips & Cohen partner Erika A. Kelton in response to an op-ed that criticized the prosecution of a doctor who was...
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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...
February 27, 2011
Whistle Stop – Letter to the Editor
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...
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February 17, 2011
“Companies Prod SEC on Whistleblower Proposal.”
Erika Kelton in The Wall Street Journal, 2/17/11. . . . Lawyers for whistleblowers counter that requiring internal reporting would kill the program by discouraging would-be tipsters from coming forward...
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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...
November 22, 2010
Whistleblower Program – Letter to the Editor
The National Law Journal published a letter to the editor from Phillips & Cohen partners Erika A. Kelton written in response to a column by a defense attorney who criticized the SEC whistleblower...
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October 07, 2010
Medicare needs more, better reforms – Letter to the Editor
The Miami Herald published a letter from Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton advocating that the government devote more resources to pursuing the backlog of whistleblower cases. Medicare needs more,...
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