Whistleblower Law Insights

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking whistleblowers to help them stop spoofing in the commodities and derivatives markets. Spoofing is a crime that can be hard to detect without the help...

Whistleblowers continue to deliver the federal government’s most significant wins against fraud, with “qui tam” cases responsible for most of the $3.05 billion the government recovered from fraud-related...

Kickbacks by the pharmaceutical industry come in many forms. One of the latest twists in pharma kickbacks involves patient assistance foundations conspiring with drug manufacturers to increase manufacturers’...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is reconsidering whether to adopt proposed new rules for the SEC whistleblower program that could have a significant impact on the program by limiting whistleblower...

Recent scandals involving two of the “Big Four” accounting firms have added weight to the need for a robust program to encourage whistleblowers to provide the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board...

Introduction to Antidumping and Countervailing Duties (AD/CVD) Individuals looking to report companies that evade antidumping or countervailing duties (AD/CVD) through fraud should be aware of the avenues...

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions’ tentative settlement with the US Department of Justice for $145 million would be the second largest settlement involving electronic health records (EHR) so far, if finalized....

Almost a decade has passed since the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law, creating whistleblower programs at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and by most...

A major whistleblower law went into effect in Australia this week, offering important, enhanced whistleblower protections against job retaliation. But the Australian law lacks a critical component of successful...

In an alarming and outrageous case involving information misappropriated from the very body that oversees it, accounting giant KPMG admitted earlier this month to using that information to alter clients’...