• posted: Nov. 23, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• SEC,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  SEC whistleblower award

In July, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a $3.8 million award to a whistleblower who assisted the commission by providing crucial information during an ongoing investigation into Read More

• posted: Oct. 29, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• defrauded investors,  Veriet

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently charged Vereit, Inc. (previously known as American Realty Capital Properties, Inc.) with intentionally overstating important performance metrics, a form of fraud. Read More

• posted: Oct. 19, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• exposing wrongdoing,  SEC whistleblower award,  securities fraud

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced an award of $125,000 in June to a whistleblower who went through the SEC’s whistleblower program to report wrongdoing. According to SEC 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: 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. 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. 06, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• criminal conduct,  healthcare fraud,  covid-19

Healthcare fraud costs American taxpayers billions of dollars every year. With the widespread coronavirus pandemic, it is expected that much of the fraud in 2020 will be related to the Read More

• posted: Apr. 27, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,  Graft and Corruption,  Uncategorized,  Whistleblower Litigation,  New Legislation,  Fraud,  Employee Retirement Income Security Act,  Wrongful Termination
• corona virus,  covid,  fired during covid

In her article published April 23, 2020, on nbcdfw.com, Diana Zoga discusses a lawsuit filed in Dallas County in mid-April. The suit was filed by Amy Reggio, a woman who says Read More

• posted: Feb. 03, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• 2008 financial crisis,  Federal Reserve Banks (FRBs),  pattern of fraud

The Second Circuit recently revived a False Claims Act case that arose out of the 2008 financial crisis. The case, United States ex rel. Kraus v. Wells Fargo & Co., two Read More

• posted: Jan. 09, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• whistleblower law attorney

A trio of former executives of Outcome Health were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of engaging in a fraudulent scheme to raise about $500 million for the Read More

• posted: Nov. 25, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• completely meritless,  overstated by as much as $6 billion,  overstated revenue by billions

According to a report from MarketWatch, a Walt Disney Company accountant has claimed the company overstated its revenue for years. That accountant ultimately filed a whistleblower report with the Securities Read More

• posted: Nov. 11, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• misleading its investors,  Unregistered Securities Sales

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Crystal World Holdings, Inc., The New Sports Economy Institute and Christopher Paul Rabalais for misleading its investors in an unregistered offer and Read More

• posted: Nov. 07, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• $339 Million Judgment

A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas recently entered a judgment in a Medicare fraud case against four defendants valued at a total Read More

• posted: Oct. 31, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• whistleblower settlement,  False Claim act,  Medicare Fraud

This summer, Eagleville Hospital, a provider of various substance abuse treatments to Medicare and Medicaid patients, agreed to a $2.85 million settlement with the government in the face of allegations Read More