Phillips & Cohen In The Media

Letter to the editor of The Economist from Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton discussing the whistleblower reward program. Whistleblowing has increased because of the success of American whistleblower-reward...

Article by Erika Kelton published in Compliance Weekly, 12/29/15. “‘Nut jobs.’ That single, derisive term uttered at a conference in Chicago in early December by a prominent executive...

Erika Kelton in Bloomberg BNA, 12/29/15. Kelton said “whistle-blowers bring significant frauds to light.” “These are improper business practices that likely would never have been discovered but...

Article by Edward Arens published in Accounting Today, 12/16/15. “A recent report from the Government Accountability office says that despite whistleblowers’ growing importance to IRS recoveries,...

Peter Chatfield in Austin American-Statesman, 11/29/15. “Physicians feel the pressure, and they feel entitled to make more money after all of the years of school and sacrifice,” said Peter Chatfield,...

Claire Sylvia in Debtwire, 11/4/15. “In qui tam cases, the person bringing the case must be making allegations that aren’t already public, or must be an ‘original source,’ in other words have...

Erika Kelton in Bloomberg, 9/21/15. “Prosecutors and regulators need to have the insights of people on the inside to do their job,” said Erika Kelton, a lawyer at Phillips & Cohen LLP in Washington...

Peter Chatfield in The Dark Report, 9/14/15. “The relationship between all of these companies involved with (True Health) will be something that could be challenged if it looks suspicious,” said [Peter]...

Erika Kelton in Bloomberg, 9/11/15. The bigger issue, the court found, was that those working in finance — as well as attorneys — have a duty to report suspected wrongdoing internally before going...

Peter Budetti in Bloomberg, 8/20/15. “[Medicare fraud] is still an ongoing challenge,” says Peter Budetti, who oversaw fraud investigations at CMS until 2013 and is now an attorney at Phillips &...