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Sprint Will Pay $330 Million to Settle Whistleblower Tax Fraud Case

Telecommunications giant Sprint recently agreed to settle a long-running whistleblower lawsuit regarding incidents of tax fraud to the tune of $330 million. The lawsuit alleged Sprint had been committing tax fraud since 2005. It is not the greatest timing for Sprint, which is currently going through the approval process for a merger with T-Mobile. The Read More

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Finance of America Mortgage to Pay $14.5 Million to Settle FHA Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that Finance of America Mortgage, LLC, has agreed to pay the federal government $14.5 million to settle a lawsuit involving mortgage fraud brought under the False Claims Act. The case related to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans originated by Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Services, a company acquired by Read More

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Pair of Companies Ordered to Pay More than $7 Million for Issues Related to Pet Food Ingredients

Two companies were ordered by a federal court to pay more than $7 million in fines after they introduced adulterated and misbranded pet food ingredients into products that were sold across the United States. The two companies were Wilbur-Ellis, a California LLC based in San Francisco, and Diversified Ingredients, Inc., a Missouri-based company that works Read More

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Facebook Ordered to Pay $69 Million in Attorney Fees in Shareholder Action

Facebook Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $69 million in attorneys’ fees in a mooted shareholder lawsuit over a scrapped plan that would have reclassified the company’s stock. The deal was reached in late October in Delaware Chancery Court. The deal marked the end of a legal battle over attorneys’ fees that that continued long Read More

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Memo Reveals Several Managers Knew of Medicaid Fraud in New Jersey Case

A state comptroller for New Jersey claimed that one of his employees acted of his own accord by discounting $2.6 million on how much certain fraudsters had to repay taxpayers for Medicaid. However, a new memo obtained by reporters indicates several levels of managers in the comptroller’s office knew about these deals, indicating an organized Read More

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SEC Expected to Get Tougher on Cyber Fraud

A report from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last fall warned that publicly held companies with insufficient internal accounting controls are more likely to cause cyber fraud and could be in violation of federal law and subject to future fines from the SEC. This indicates the agency is looking to crack down even further Read More

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Reliant Rehabilitation Holdings Will Pay $6.1 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations

Reliant Rehabilitation Holds, Inc., a national rehabilitative care provider based in Plano, Texas, will pay $6.1 million to the federal government to settle claims it paid kickbacks to its skilled nursing facilities and doctors. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Reliant violated the False Claims Act by pairing up clients with nurse practitioners for Read More

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Amazon Launches Investigation into Reports of Employees Leaking Data for Bribes

Global online retailer Amazon has announced that it has started an investigation into reported internal leaks of private information by employees as part of bribes to take down fake reviews and other scams on its network. The initial report about the scheme came from the Wall Street Journal. According to that report, Amazon employees used Read More

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PwC to Pay $625 Million in Damages After Audit

U.S. District Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein ordered PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to pay the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. more than $625 million for negligence in an audit of Colonial BancGroup, Inc., a bank holding company in Alabama that went under during the most recent economic downturn. The FDIC requested the damages, leading to the case overseen by Read More

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Florida Urogynecology Network Settles False Claims Act Case for $1.7 Million

FWC Urogynecology, a urogynecology network based in Florida, recently settled a False Claims Act lawsuit for $1.7 million. In the suit, FWC was alleged to have billed the government for services it did not provide or were otherwise inflated to get larger refunds. In the suit, FWC was alleged to have misused Medicare billing codes Read More

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