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Whistleblower Lawyer Blog

A legal blog that covers whistleblowing law, including news and events dealing with whistleblowing law.
By Finch McCranie, Esq.

Post Frequency: 1.1/day

Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 00:34:46

Federal Subsidies and the False Claims Act

Posted on February 09, 2008
If an organization or individual is receiving a federal subsidy of any kind and makes false statements to the Federal Government with respect to such subsidies, such false statements could subject the receiver of the subsidy to liability under the Federal False Claims Act...

New Whistleblower Law Provides Protection for Defense Contractor Employees

Posted on January 30, 2008
Two days ago on 1/28/08 President Bush signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2008. This legislation includes a provision protecting defense contractor employees who blow the whistle on contracting fraud. 10 U.S...

Tax Fraud Prosecution Over Abuse of Offshore Transactions Leads to Convictions of CPAs and Attorney by IRS and Justice Department (from Whistleblower Lawyer Blog)

Posted on January 29, 2008
Our whistleblower lawyer blog has followed closely investigations of hedge funds and other offshore investors for tax fraud and other IRS violations. After investigating a tax fraud conspiracy involving offshore companies and offshore bank accounts, the Justice Department and the IRS have announced that an attorney and two certified public accountants have pleaded guilty to tax fraud and aiding the preparation of a false tax return...

Whistleblower Qui Tam Case Result: "Big Dig" Settlement of $458 Million Announced

Posted on January 25, 2008
The "Big Dig" collapse has led to a $458 million settlement by contractors responsible for the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel highway project. Whistleblowers using the federal and state False Claims Acts helped bring about that result. Of the $458 million settlement, $23 million is being paid to the United States under the federal False Claims Act, and $40 million will go to Massachusetts under its state False Claims Act, as a result of qui tam whistleblower litigation...

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Hedge Fund Tax Probes Expand to Congress Following IRS Hedge Fund Inquiries

Posted on January 18, 2008
Both the IRS Financial Services group (part of its LMSB Division) and the IRS Whistleblower Office have emphasized to me--as recently as yesterday--their strong interest in hedge fund abuses that violate the tax laws. The tax whistleblower section of our whistleblower lawyer blog has followed the expanding probes and increased scrutiny of hedge funds, including our segments on "IRS to Scrutinize Derivatives--Do They Allow Offshore Investors to Avoid Withholding Taxes on U...

IRS Whistleblower Progress: Kudos to These Tax Whistleblower Attorneys

Posted on January 17, 2008
The progress of the new IRS Whistleblower Program has been a subject of great interest of this whistleblower lawyer blog. I would like to congratulate two fellow tax whistleblower attorneys, Erika Kelton of Phillips & Cohen, LLP, and Paul D. Scott of the Law Offices of Paul D...

Qui Tam Whistleblower Law Signed by New Jersey Governor

Posted on January 16, 2008
This whistleblower lawyer blog reported earlier that the New Jersey Assembly had passed the New Jersey False Claims Act, which provides incentives to whistleblowers ("relators") to expose fraud affecting state funds--much like the federal False Claims Act does...

Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Fraud Crackdown by CMS Announced--to Combat False Claims Act Violations of Types Often Exposed by Whistleblowers and Their Attorneys

Posted on January 12, 2008
Some of the many types of health care fraud that this whistleblower lawyer blog has followed involves "durable medical equipment" (DME). The sale of wheelchairs, walkers, oxygen supplies and equipment, hospital beds, orthotics, prosthetics, and various medical devices is yet another opportunity for dishonest suppliers to defraud taxpayers...

IRS Tax Whistleblower Procedures Continue to Take Shape

Posted on January 11, 2008
The new IRS Whistleblower Office's Rewards Program that we have followed closely on this whistleblower lawyer blog made further progress this week. The IRS gave notice on January 9 that it intends to create a proposed new system of records--"Whistleblower Office Records...

False Claims Act Passed in New Jersey Continues Trend of New State Qui Tam Whistleblower Statutes

Posted on January 07, 2008
The wave of new state False Claims Acts with qui tam whistleblower provisions has been a frequent topic of this whistleblower lawyer blog. In 2007, New York, Georgia, and Oklahoma joined the 16 other states that have enacted versions of the federal False Claims Act, the government's primary weapon for fighting fraud against taxpayers...

IRS Tax Whistleblowers & False Claims Act Qui Tam Cases--2007 Year in Review by Whistleblower Lawyer Blog

Posted on December 31, 2007
2007 has been a most significant year for whistleblowers. The whistleblower lawyer blog attorneys look back on some of the milestones: 1. As soon as Congress authorized the first meaningful IRS Whistleblower Rewards Program to pay tax whistleblowers 15-30% of IRS recoveries from those who violate the tax laws by statue effective on December 20, 2006, beginning in January our whistleblower lawyers submitted some of the first IRS Whistleblower claims in the nation under the new law...

IRS Whistleblower Instructions for Filing Tax Whistleblower Claims Issued by IRS--and Are Reprinted Here on Whistleblower Lawyer Blog

Posted on December 20, 2007
The IRS a few hours ago issued the long-discussed "interim" guidance on pursuing Tax Whistleblower claims under the new IRS Whistleblower Program. This IRS Notice 2008-4 on filing claims under the IRS Whistleblower Program is effective January 14, 2008, and appears at http://www...

Tax Whistleblowers: IRS Whistleblower Office Issues Long-Awaited Guidance for Tax Whistleblower Claims

Posted on December 19, 2007
Our whistleblower lawyer blog has followed closely the evolution of the new IRS Whistleblower Program, which celebrates its one-year anniversary on December 20, 2007. Late today, on the eve of that anniversary, the new IRS Whistleblower Office issued long-awaited interim "guidance" for filing Tax Whistleblower claims--which should help tax whistleblowers and their attorneys...

False Claims Act Litigation Attorneys Gather in Atlanta to Explore Whistleblower Issues

Posted on December 04, 2007
At a conference on False Claims Act Litigation on November 30, attorneys representing the government, relators or whistleblowers, and defendants gathered to discuss whistleblower law issues. The conference was organized by the law firm of Balch & Bingham LLP...

Tax Fraud & Tax Evasion Among Medicaid Providers: New IRS Whistleblower Program Fills Gap in False Claims Act for Whistleblowers and Their Attorneys

Posted on December 03, 2007
Two important topics of this whistleblower lawyer blog are addressed in a recent Government Accounting Office (GAO) Report on tax cheating by Medicaid providers. The Report shows the wisdom of the new IRS Whistleblower Program, which fills a "gap" in the coverage of the major whistleblower statute, the False Claims Act...

False Claims Act "Qui Tam" Whistleblower Cases Recover More Than $1 Billion In Latest Year, Justice Department Announces

Posted on November 13, 2007
Once again displaying the effectiveness of the False Claims Act in combating government fraud, the Justice Department has announced that it recovered $2 billion in fraud cases in the latest fiscal year that ended September 30, 2007. Qui tam whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act accounted for at least $1...

IRS Whistleblower Regulations & "Guidance" for Whistleblower Attorneys from the IRS

Posted on November 12, 2007
Anticipating the new IRS Whistleblower Program regulations that are due by the December 20, 2007 first anniversary of the new IRS Whistleblower Program, the IRS Office of Chief Counsel has just issued a Notice on "Coordination of Section 7623 Whistleblower Claims in the Tax Court...

IRS Whistleblower Program: Hedge Funds and Private Equity Firms Under Increasing IRS Scrutiny for Tax Abuses

Posted on November 05, 2007
Continuing this whistleblower lawyer blog's discussions of the IRS's strong interest in hedge funds and private equity firms, there have been several recent public statements and reports about IRS efforts to identify and stop tax fraud and tax noncompliance in these segments of the financial services industry...

TRICARE Medical Fraud Report--Whistleblower Attorneys Take Note that Health Care Fraud Continues to Plague Government

Posted on November 02, 2007
Fraud affecting health care is a frequent topic of our whistleblower lawyer blog. A new report on TRICARE, the U.S. Military's health care system, shows that medical fraud continues, as honest whistleblowers and their lawyers continue the fight against government fraud...

False Claims Act Whistleblower Case to Be Decided By Supreme Court

Posted on October 31, 2007
This week, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a False Claims Act whistleblower case filed against the General Motors Corporation and its former division, Allison Engine Company. The alleged fraud concerns subcontracts for building parts for the U...

Qui Tam Whistleblower in False Claims Act Case Receives $7.3 Million in False Claims Case

Posted on October 29, 2007
From time to time on this whistleblower blog we report cases of significance involving successful whistleblower claims filed under the federal False Claims Act. We read about such a case today in the news involving a $28 million settlement with National Air Cargo...

IRS Tax Evasion & Stock Options Fraud Lead to Prison Sentence for Options Administrator

Posted on October 24, 2007
On this whistleblower lawyer blog, we have written previously about abuse of stock options--and how the IRS has declared that tax fraud and evasion from back-dating of stock options is a "Tier I" priority. Now, stock option fraud and income tax evasion will send a former stock options administrator to prison for almost four years...

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