• posted: Oct. 12, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Borrower Defense to Repayment,  Department of Education

An official from the United States Department of Education filed a whistleblower complaint earlier this year, stating the Trump Administration and the department under Secretary Betsy DeVos purposefully made it Read More

• posted: Oct. 09, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• whistleblower protection,  retaliation,  Medicare Fraud

Josh Valdez, a former executive for a subsidiary of Aveta Inc., sued the company, claiming it had spent years engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare of hundreds of millions Read More

• posted: Oct. 07, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• hostile work environment,  sexual harassment,  workplace harassment

A former employee of Schlumberger, one of the largest names in oil field services, filed a $100 million lawsuit against the company alleging sexual harassment. According to Sara Saidman, the plaintiff, Read More

• posted: Sep. 28, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• sexual harassment,  paycheck protection program,  ppp

The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was implemented as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing small businesses with some federal funding to keep workers employed during the tough financial Read More

• posted: Sep. 24, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• bidding procedures

Francesca Tucker-Schuyler served until recently as the city manager for Montebello, CA. However, she was fired in February 2019 in what she claims to have been a case of wrongful Read More

• posted: Sep. 21, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• lawsuit,  wrongful termination,  covid-19

Tiffani Harcrow, a former employee of Omelet LLC ad agency in Culver City, recently filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against her former employer. She alleges the company wrongfully fired her Read More

• posted: Sep. 17, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• SEC,  fraud allegations,  covid-19

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) noted it has seen a “spike” in tips, complaints and referrals related to COVID-19, prompting brand new investigations for the commission. The agency Read More

• posted: Sep. 14, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation
• retaliation,  falsifying reports,  covid-19

The designer of Florida’s COVID-9 dashboard recently filed a whistleblower complaint against the Florida Department of Health after being fired for insubordination. The former department employee, Rebekah Jones, claims she was Read More

• posted: Sep. 10, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• nursing home,  Conditions at Nursing Home,  covid-19

An anonymous whistleblower in Brooklyn called attention this spring to some of the dire conditions at nursing homes in New York City. The whistleblower spoke with voice distortion and appeared in Read More

• posted: Sep. 07, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• OSHA,  anti-retaliation program,  workplace safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a reminder to employers across the United States that any form of retaliation against employees who blow the whistle on suspect Read More

• posted: Sep. 05, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• financial fraud,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  mortgage fraud

A whistleblower claims there is evidence to believe Wall Street is once again engaged in some of the very practices that led to the financial crash of 2008. A whistleblower complaint Read More

• posted: Aug. 31, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• financial fraud,  SEC,  SEC whistleblower award

The most recent SEC whistleblower award was a $3.8 million bounty to a whistleblower who offered information to the agency that resulted in a successful enforcement action. As always, the information Read More

• posted: Aug. 27, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• securities fraud

April 2020 was a busy month for the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower and its whistleblower award program. The headline award of the month was a $27 million award to Read More

• posted: Aug. 24, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• social distancing

Brianna Flores, a 22-year-old woman from Mississippi, began working at a Maximus call center this spring in a position where she would be giving callers coronavirus guidelines coming directly from Read More

• posted: Aug. 20, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• healthcare organization

A former employee of Ballard Health from Scott County, Virginia filed a lawsuit worth $3 million against the company, alleging the healthcare organization wrongfully terminated her after she blew the Read More

• posted: Aug. 17, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• wrongful termination,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A Detroit nurse was fired after posting a video on Facebook discussing the working conditions at her place of employment, Sinai Grace hospital. Now she has sued the hospital seeking Read More