Whistleblower Law Insights

The Cephalon whistleblower who first exposed the pharma company’s off-label marketing of potentially dangerous drugs has published a book that tells the heartfelt story of his experience as a whistleblower....

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has taken its first enforcement action involving coronavirus-related fraud against a Florida man who regulators say falsely claimed to be a forex trader. James...

Covid-19 has spread rapidly throughout the United States, and so has Covid-19 fraud. Criminals respond quickly and imaginatively to opportunity, and there has been no greater opportunity in recent memory...

The US Department of Justice has raised the minimum and maximum penalties that can be assessed for violations of the False Claims Act, as well as civil monetary penalties under other laws, starting this...

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Liu v SEC, issued this week, is a significant win for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program. The court affirmed the SEC’s ability to order disgorgements...

The Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower program set a record last week when the SEC awarded a former banking insider nearly $50 million, which is the largest SEC whistleblower award made to...

Whistleblower reports of misconduct by financial companies in the United Kingdom increased slightly in the past year, according to new data. Kroll, an investigations and management firm, obtained data...

Whistleblowers should be protected for playing a vital role in exposing bribery that threatens the international response to the coronavirus pandemic, says the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

As quickly as Covid-19-related investment scams are popping up, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to stop them. Whistleblowers can play an important role working with the SEC to stop...

A healthcare provider’s false representation that treatment is medically necessary can be the basis for a False Claims Act case, even though it involves subjective judgment, the Ninth Circuit Court of...