Whistleblower Lawyer Blog
"A blog about Lincoln's Law (False Claims Act) and other whistle-blower laws."
Author: Finch McCranie is based in Atlanta. The firm also authors Georgia Injury Law Blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • White Collar Crime • Labor & Employment • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Whistleblower Lawyer Blog
-
Justice Department Announces 2008 Fraud & "Qui Tam" False Claims Act Recoveries, with Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Health Care Fraud Alone Topping $1 Billion in Recoveries of Taxpayer Funds
Will Wall Street Bailout Produce the Next Round of Whistleblowers Reporting Fraud? The U.S. Department of Justice this week announced its FY 2008 recoveries in fraud and False Claims Act cases, with more than $1…
-
Tax Court Prepares for IRS Whistleblower Cases by Adopting New Proposed Amendments to Rules of Practice and Procedure
One of the hallmarks of the new IRS Whistleblower Rewards Program is that whistleblowers have an enforceable right to rewards, and can appeal the IRS Whistleblower Office's rewards decisions to the U.S. Tax Court. The…
-
IRS Addresses Deductibility of Payments by Defendants to Settle False Claims Act Cases
In our former life as lawyers defending False Claims Act cases, our defendant clients had to consider whether the payments made to settle qui tam cases under the False Claims Act were deductible for tax…
-
With Wall Street Bailout, Whistleblowers to Reveal Fraud and Abuses Through IRS Whistleblower Claims and Qui Tam False Claims Act Cases?
Will the IRS Whistleblower Program and the False Claims Act be powerful weapons in redressing the fraud and abuse that led to the current financial crisis--and to the future fraud and abuse that is certain…
-
1st Annual Report on New IRS Whistleblower Program Issued by Secretary of the Treasury
When Congress authorized the new IRS Whistleblower Program in December 2006, it required annual reporting to Congress about how the new whistleblower provisions have been used, what results were obtained, and what recommendations to improve…
-
IRS Whistleblower Office Director and Tax Court Judge Gather with Whistleblower Attorneys
For the second time since the new IRS Whistleblower office was created in early 2007, IRS Whistleblower Office Director Stephen A. Whitlock addressed questions from whistleblower attorneys at the Taxpayers Against Fraud annual conference yesterday…
-
Dismissal of Fraudulent Tax Shelter Charges Against Former KPMG Partners Is Upheld by Appellate Court
As this whistleblower lawyer blog has discussed before, accounting firms that promote fraudulent tax shelters are prime targets of IRS enforcement efforts (often assisted by IRS tax whistleblowers). In a decision last week, the prosecution…
-
Attorney Assisting Offshore Tax Evasion Is Rewarded With Prison Sentence and Judgment to Pay of $2.7 Million
As this whistleblower lawyer blog has written about often, abuses of offshore transactions have increasingly become a target of IRS enforcement efforts. A Utah attorney learned this lesson last week when he was sentenced to…
-
New Jersey Medicare Contractor Settles Health Care Fraud Case under False Claims Act
The Medicare program depends on the integrity of "trusted contractors" to process and pay Medicare claims. This past week, one of those "trusted contractors" operating in New Jersey, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, agreed to pay…
-
OIG Approves False Claims Acts of California, Georgia, Indiana, and Rhode Island, But Disapproves False Claims Acts of Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Oklahoma
The wave of new State False Claims Acts has generated a flurry of letters from the Office of Inspector General of HHS this past week. OIG has now "approved" the new State False Claims Acts…