• 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: Nov. 16, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• company policies,  compliance

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a wide range of potential risks to employers beyond just exposure to the virus. There has been a significant increase in whistleblowing activity surrounding Read More

• posted: Nov. 02, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower settlement,  Medicaid Fraud,  Medicare Fraud

The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) announced over the summer it would agree to pay $57 million to settle a whistleblower claim filed by a former executive in Read More

• posted: Oct. 22, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• stock options

Jason Cagle, the former CFO of United Surgical Partners International (a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare in Dallas), filed a lawsuit against his former employer alleging whistleblower retaliation. Cagle had worked for 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. 15, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• TSA,  TSA Whistleblower,  covid-19

A whistleblower who works for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) alleged the TSA failed to implement appropriate early safety measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite repeated pleas from employees. As Read More

• 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: 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. 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: 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