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A San Diego-based computer company with an office in Albuquerque will pay $5.9 million to settle allegations it inflated the price of computers it sold for use at Sandia National Laboratories over a 10-year period, the FBI announced this week.   PC Specialists Inc., which does business in Albuquerque as Technology Integration Group (TIG), allegedly Read More »

Two former employees of the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, saying they were wrongly fired after reporting incidents of fraud and mismanagement inside the troubled department.   The lawsuit, filed last week in Fulton County Superior Court, comes one year after the two employees — Gwendolyn Winston Read More »

When whistleblower, Walter Tamosaitis warned in 2011 that the Energy Department’s plans for a waste treatment plant at the former Hanford nuclear weapons complex were unsafe, he was demoted and put in a basement room with cardboard boxes and plywood for office furniture.   Tamosaitis had been leading a team of 100 scientists and engineers Read More »

The US government says obtaining Lance Armstrong’s medical records from the Indiana University School of Medicine could be key to proving fraud in the whistleblower lawsuit first brought by Floyd Landis against Armstrong and the US Postal Service team management in 2010, under the US False Claims Act. The US government joined the suit in 2013, and has been Read More »

Lawyers are expected to give opening statements Monday in the Birmingham trial of a whistleblower lawsuit which claims that during one four-year period AseraCare, one of the nation’s largest for-profit hospice providers, fraudulently billed Medicare $67.5 million for patients who weren’t really on the verge of dying.   The bigger issue, federal government lawyers say, is that the Read More »