A Toms River-based dental practice has agreed to pay $420,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a whistleblower who said the company deleted accounts in which it owed money to insurers and patients. Allied Dental Practices of New Jersey in some cases wiped out credits to patients of more than $1,000, the complaint said. Read More »
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The poster boy for the enhanced protections for whistleblowers is American banker, Bradley Birkenfeld. Birkenfeld assisted the feds in nailing a $780 million settlement with Swiss bank UBS in 2009. But he had to plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and was sentenced in August 2009 Read More »
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Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but we must take it because our Read More »
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A social worker has come forward to talk about the deplorable conditions she witnessed at a family detention center in Texas built in response to the large increase of Central American migrants that came across the southern U.S.-Mexico border last year. At a Judiciary Democrats’ Forum on Family Detention set for Tuesday, Olivia Lopez, Read More »
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A federal judge in Philadelphia has taken the Department of Justice to task for minimizing a whistleblower’s contribution in a False Claims Act case that resulted in a $192 million settlement with Endo Pharmaceuticals and ended over a decade’s worth of fraud that ripped off Medicare and Medicaid for over $700 million dollars. “The Read More »
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