• posted: Aug. 19, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• insurance fraud

A pair of former executives with Southport Lane, L.P., a private equity investment holding company that specializes in managing investment portfolios for insurance companies, were charged with participating in a Read More

• posted: Apr. 15, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• allegations of improper billing,  billed federal healthcare programs,  You can start a False Claims Act case

National pharmacy chain Walgreens recently settled a pair of False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuits with the federal government for a total of $269 million. The claims involved allegations of improper Read More

• posted: Apr. 11, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• after it settled charges,  Steps to take to combat fraud,  U.S. Department of Justice for lack of complianc

Eagle Home Mortgage, a subsidiary of Lennar, is the defendant in a new whistleblower lawsuit that alleges the lender routinely approved unqualified borrowers for mortgages, going so far as to Read More

• posted: Apr. 08, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• Ponzi scheme,  red flags,  Reporting the scheme

It is hard to believe, but we have now passed the 10-year anniversary of the federal government bringing down Bernie Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. This scheme did ultimately do some Read More

• posted: Apr. 01, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• tax fraud,  False Claim act

Sprint, the fourth-most popular mobile phone carrier in the United States, recently agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit to the tune of $330 million. The whistleblower in the case alleged the Read More

• posted: Mar. 11, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• $330 Million to Settle,  committing tax fraud,  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 Read More

• posted: Feb. 25, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• $14.5 Million to Settle,  fraudulent practices,  trusted whistleblower attorney

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 Read More

• posted: Feb. 14, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• introducing adulterated food,  misbranded pet food,  pet food fraud

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 Read More

• posted: Feb. 07, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• $69 million lawsuit,  shareholder lawsuit,  trusted attorneys

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 Read More

• posted: Jan. 31, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• new memo

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 Read More

• posted: Jan. 21, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• confidential data,  SEC,  cybersecurity

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 Read More

• posted: Nov. 15, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• False Claims Act,  fraud,  settlement,  Dallas attorney,  kickbacks

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 Read More

• posted: Nov. 12, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• confidential data,  fraud,  Dallas attorney,  leaks

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 Read More

• posted: Nov. 08, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• financial fraud,  fraud,  fraud settlement,  Dallas attorney

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 Read More

• posted: Nov. 05, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• fraud,  fraud settlement,  false claims,  Dallas attorney

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 Read More

• posted: Nov. 01, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• SEC fines

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently fined Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. $2.8 million for failing to report a series of suspicious transactions by independent investment advisors it Read More