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• 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

• 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

• posted: Aug. 13, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• nysna

The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) filed three lawsuits, alleging failures on the part of several healthcare entities to protect nurses in COVID-19 wards. The defendants in the suit Read More

• posted: Aug. 10, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation
• paycheck protection program,  ppp

A company filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo on behalf of small business owners, alleging the bank took unfair actions against small businesses seeking COVID-19 relief through the Paycheck Protection 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