Phillips & Cohen In The Media

Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton wrote an op-ed in The Hill looking at why the IRS’s decision to once again hire private debt collectors to go after small overdue tax bills is misguided....

Stephen Hasegawa tells Corporate Counsel that the OSHA order for Wells Fargo to rehire a bank manager that used the company’s ethics hotline to report fraudulent activity back in 2010 and pay him...

Peter B. Budetti spoke to HCCA’s Report on Medicare Compliance in its March 27, 2017 issue about a proposed boost in the FY2018 presidential budget to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s...

Letter to the Editor by Sean McKessy in the Australian Financial Review, 3/6/2017 “Critics of a legislative proposal to reward whistleblowers as a way to encourage them to come forward are totally...

Peter B. Budetti was quoted in The Hill – Extra on 2/21/17 in a story about the important role whistleblowers play in uncovering Medicare Advantage fraud. From The Hill: Peter Budetti, an attorney...

Sean McKessy in Ignites, 1/25/17. The case serves as a “cautionary tale” for other firms that “the SEC really doesn’t like when companies target their programs,” says Sean...

Sean McKessy in the National Law Journal, 1/6/17. Sean McKessy, who stepped down in July as the whistleblower office’s first chief, said Friday’s award marks the second time the SEC has deemed...

Article by Erika Kelton published in the NYU Compliance & Enforcement Blog, 01/05/17. “2016 was a banner year for the Dodd-Frank Act’s most significant anti-fraud enforcement provisions: the...

Sean McKessy in BNA Securities Law Daily, 12/23/16. “[Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy] took what he knew from previous SEC and corporate experience and dived right into the whistle-blower...

Sean McKessy in The Mercury News, 12/16/16. Q: Tech firms maintain a lot of secrecy around their work – does that affect people’s willingness to blow the whistle to the SEC? [McKessy]: There...