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• posted: Aug. 04, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• resignation letter

Sg. David “Kawika” Hallums of the Honolulu Police Department said he was removed almost immediately after being sworn in as the vice president of the State of Hawaii Organization of Read More

• posted: Aug. 02, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• False Claims Act,  Medicare Fraud,  Department of Justice

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced two settlements of qui tam lawsuits under the False Claims Act, which allows private individuals to file lawsuits on behalf of the government Read More

• posted: Jul. 21, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  New Legislation
• SEC,  SEC whistleblower award,  anti-retaliation

The Whistleblower Program of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been a significant success since its implementation in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, but there have been some Read More

• posted: Jul. 14, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC,  SEC whistleblower award,  SEC award

On April 25, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued whistleblower awards to two groups of recipients comprising five total whistleblowers. According to the SEC, both of these group sof Read More

• posted: Jul. 12, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• market manipulation

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a Notice of Covered Action (NCA) on May 18 for action taken against Kraft Foods Group, Inc. and Mondelez Global LLC. The Read More

• posted: Jun. 30, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• FCC,  federal assistance programs

TracFone Wireless Inc., a Miami-based telecommunications carrier, will pay $13.4 million to settle allegations of False Claims Act violations. The case was originally brought by a whistleblower, Farrell Gordon, who will Read More

• posted: Jun. 28, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• wrongful termination lawsuit,  whistleblower claim,  retaliation claim

A former firefighter from Montebello, California recently filed a federal whistleblower wrongful termination suit worth more than $5 million. That firefighter, Vernon Creswell, already won a $2.6 million payout from the Read More

• posted: Jun. 28, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• SEC award,  SEC whistleblower awards,  securities fraud

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued a $14 million award to a whistleblower who published an online report that exposed ongoing fraud. That whistleblower shared the same information Read More

• posted: Jun. 16, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• False Claims Act,  kickbacks,  health care fraud

A recent lawsuit against a Georgia surgical company and the physician who owns it resulted in a $3 million lawsuit. The False Claims Act case was filed against Dr. Jeffrey Gallups Read More

• posted: Jun. 14, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act,  CPSIA

Are you aware of fraudulent activity within a consumer products company, or an inherent danger of a product the company is trying to conceal? It is important to know your Read More

• posted: Jun. 02, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently ordered Pegasus Elite Aviation, a private aviation company, to pay an employee back wages and other costs Read More

• posted: May 24, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower awards,  #metoo movement,  whistleblower reports

Best Lawyers recently had a thoughtful article in its “All Rise” newsletter in which they tied a seeming increase in whistleblower reports (specifically SEC whistleblower reports) to the #MeToo movement Read More

• posted: May 24, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC,  SEC award,  $3 Million Whistleblower Award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued three separate whistleblower awards totaling approximately $3 million. According to the commission, each of these awards featured whistleblowers who voluntarily provided Read More

• posted: May 19, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower award,  CFTC,  CFTC Whistleblower Program

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently announced an award of approximately $10 million to a whistleblower who provided unique information that prompted the opening of a CFTC investigation. The Read More

• posted: May 17, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• Mallinckrodt,  misreporting

The federal government, in conjunction with individual states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, recently settled a False Claims Act lawsuit against Mallinckrodt PLC, a pharmaceuticals company. The lawsuit alleged Read More

• posted: May 03, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• qui tam cases

The federal whistleblower programs at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have been the subject of quite a bit of praise for their Read More