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Byline: Julie Zauzmer Weil The IRS recovered $263 million from a single individual, ending more than a decade of tax evasion and one of its biggest whistleblower cases ever, according [...]

Byline: Ben Singson Aug. 29A former employee of a Jacksonville daycare center is seeking class-action status for a federal lawsuit over allegations of wage and time violations and whistleblower retaliation. [...]

Byline: Bennett Loudon U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo has approved a request to voluntarily dismiss a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit filed against a western New York electronics [...]

Byline: Vanessa McCray Vanessa.McCray@ajc.com The federal government is alleging Georgia Tech and its research arm didnt follow enforcement of cybersecurity rules for U.S. Department of Defense contracts. The U.S. Attorneys [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham Aug. 21A jury has awarded $4 million to a former Bloomsburg University administrator who said he was a victim of retaliation after he helped an employee [...]

Byline: Michael Brice-Saddler; Steve Thompson Former D.C. Housing Authority director Brenda Donald is suing the agency, its board and D.C. Council member Robert C. White Jr., alleging that she was [...]

Byline: Michael Brice-Saddler, Steve Thompson Former D.C. Housing Authority Director Brenda Donald is suing the agency, its board and D.C. Council member Robert C. White Jr., alleging that she was [...]

A federal district court in the Middle District of Florida issued a decision on Sept. 30th that threatens the federal government's continued reliance on the False Claims Act ('FCA') as [...]

Washington: United States Tax Court has issued the following order: WHISTLEBLOWER 4792-19W , Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent Docket No . 4792-19W United States Tax Court Washington, DC [...]

The POSH Act stands as a significant legislative shield against sexual harassment of women at workplaces. It sets out a prescriptive redressal mechanism for complaint resolution. This includes inter alia: [...]

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle is set to stand trial over 24 criminal offences on 2 September 2024, which cover preparatory acts that he undertook to gather information to prove that [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Justice: The United States joined a whistleblower suit and filed a complaint-in-intervention against the Georgia Institute of Technology [...]

SAN FRANCISCO: Phillips & Cohen LLP has issued the following news release: Humana, a healthcare insurance company that contracts with Medicare to provide Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans, agreed [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Humana, a healthcare insurance company that contracts with Medicare to provide Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans, agreed to pay $90 million to [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently filed a complaint against Erlanger Health System (Erlanger), a county-owned public health system, and two of its Tennessee hospitals alleging that the health system [...]

Byline: Jason Allen (KTVT) -- Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) -- A former police chief could receive more than $5 million from the city [...]

In the first of its kind enforcement action, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) charged a firm for impeding reporting by a whistleblower in violation of Commission regulations. [...]

Employee Who Wanted To Donate/Freeze Her Eggs Was Not Protected By Pregnancy Statute Paleny v. Fireplace Products U.S., Inc., 103 Cal. App. 5th 199 (2024) Erika Paleny alleged harassment, discrimination [...]

Byline: Robert Mendick CHIEF REPORTER JOHNNY MERCER no longer faces the threat of jail for defying a court order after a public inquiry chairman appeared to back down. The Tory [...]

Byline: Peter Whoriskey Invitation Homes, one of the nation's largest corporate landlords, will pay $20 million to a whistleblower and 35 California cities to settle a lawsuit charging that the [...]

Byline: Nicholas Katzban, NorthJersey.com Two days after Montclair officiated a new township council -- a purported fresh start after years of legal tumult under the previous administration -- an attorney [...]

Byline: Kaitlyn Kanzler, NorthJersey.com A Harrington Park police sergeant claims he was wrongly suspended in his third lawsuit against the town and department over the years. Sgt. Antimo Costagliola filed [...]

Byline: William Westhoven, Morristown Daily Record The abrupt firing of BettyLou DeCroce as Dover administrator last month has resulted in a $15 million whistleblower lawsuit against the town and its [...]

Image:https://michaelwest.com.au/whistleblower-david-mcbride-sentenced-to-jail/mcbride-hand/ Caption:David McBride outside the court. Image: Facebook In a landmark day for the ‘system of justice’ in Australia, Afghan war crimes whistleblower David McBride has been sentenced to jail. [...]

Image:https://michaelwest.com.au/david-mcbride-sentencing-reserved-as-defence-pushes-for-jail/mcbride-sentencing/ Caption:David McBride sentencing hearing. Image: supplied A judge has reserved sentencing for Afghan war crimes whistleblower David McBride for a week as Defence lawyers petitioned for jail time. Does [...]

Byline: Neil Barsky A cloak of silence has descended over the recent whistleblower lawsuit claiming that the American Diabetes Association, or ADA, accepted corporate money in return for recommending recipes [...]

Byline: By, Mikey Smith Former rugby players fighting for compensation after suffering head injuries were subjected to online abuse after blowing the whistle on 'unsafe' rules in the sport. Nearly [...]

The Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth) (the Act) aims to protect Australian public service whistleblowers in making public interest disclosures (PIDs) about wrongdoing or corruption that they're privy to [...]

Washington: United States Tax Court has issued the following order: WHISTLEBLOWER 6544-19W , Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent Docket No. 6544-19W United States Tax Court Washington, DC 20217 [...]

The lawsuit is the first of its kind using the False Claims Act to bring a claim against a major retail pharmacy for its opioid dispensing practices. WASHINGTON -- Today, [...]

Company allegedly manipulated derivatives prices and used NDAs to prevent employees from voluntarily communicating about potentially illegal conduct with investigators and regulators On June 17, 2024, the CFTC's Division of [...]

On June 7, 2024, a petition for writ of certiorari was filed with the Supreme Court of the United States asking that it resolve a critical legal issue pertaining to [...]

Whistleblower employee David Kovacs was terminated and then defamed for refusing to participate in the scheme Since Kovacs' termination, AudioEye is trading 400% higher than at any time in the [...]

Washington: United States Tax Court has issued the following order: Received 06/21/24 02:39 pm Filed 06/21/24 Whistleblower 36070-21W, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Respondent Electronically Filed Docket No. 36070-21W [...]

Byline: James Titcomb The former boss of the British microchip company Imagination Technologies has claimed Chinese investors offered him what 'felt like a bribe' to move the company to China. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley: U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, [...]

DALLAS: Last week's $150 million jury verdict in a whistleblower case against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Products, LP could grow to more than $1 billion in damages and civil [...]

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 19, 2024-- Last week’s $150 million jury verdict in a whistleblower case against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Products, LP could grow to more than $1 billion in [...]

DALLAS -- Last week's $150 million jury verdict in a whistleblower case against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Products, LP could grow to more than $1 billion in damages and [...]

In a unanimous decision recently released in Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v Named Person, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) allowed, in part, the appeal from the Court of Appeal of [...]

Washington: United States Tax Court has issued the following order: WHISTLEBLOWER 1088-20W , Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent Docket No. 1088-20W United States Tax Court Washington, DC 20217 [...]

This month's update includes some interesting cases examining an injunction in a would-be whistleblowing case and the effective maintenance of the confidentiality of the documents to be disclosed, the specifics [...]

Over eight years ending in early 2017, Major David McBride served as a legal officer for the Australian Defence Forces. And over the eight months to February 2012 and the [...]

(JURIST) - The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory on Tuesday sentenced war crimes whistleblower David McBride to five years and eight months imprisonment for theft and sharing classified [...]

In Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, 601 U. S. ____, 2024 WL 478566 (2024), the United States Supreme Court (Sotomayor, J.) held that whistleblowers do not need to prove their [...]