A Florida prison guard was fired after exposing a fellow corrections officer who gouged out a mentally ill inmate’s eye. Whistleblower John Pisciotta, who witnessed the sickening attack, learned he’d lost his job on the same day his brutal colleague was convicted on federal charges, the Miami Herald reported. “I knew once I did Read More »
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A whistleblower who helped the U.S. government solve a fraud case received a $3 million award, the third-highest payout since the Securities and Exchange Commission started its whistleblower program, the agency said Friday. Details about the case or the companies involved weren’t released by the SEC, which said in a statement it would have been “very Read More »
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Former Endo sales rep Peggy Ryan first filed a whistleblower suit–concerning off-label marketing of its pain patch, Lidoderm–against the drugmaker in 2005. Nine years later, the company settled with the Department of Justice. And now, Ryan is walking away with a hefty chunk of change. Ryan will pocket roughly $33.6 million–24% of the government’s $140 million Read More »
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Regional Hospital of Jackson has agreed to pay the United States $510,000 to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary cardiac procedures over an eight-year period, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. The hospital agreed to the half-million dollar whistleblower settlement on Friday. According to the Read More »
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Thirty child actors, some as young as 4 years old, were put at risk during the filming of a battle scene last month on the Georgia set of Lionsgate’s Allegiant. In the chaotic scene during production of the third film in the Divergent series, child actors scrambled through a gauntlet of more than 100 untrained adult extras swinging metal clubs, axes Read More »
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