We represent victims of reverse discrimination and anti-DEI whistleblowers

• posted: Mar. 16, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• California Public Utilities Commission

A whistleblower case against the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) wrapped up in November 2022. The former, fired CPUC executive director is seeking up to $4.8 million for reporting “fiscal Read More

• posted: Mar. 07, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation

A former Chicken of the Sea employee has filed a complaint in Georgia federal court, alleging that she was fired from her HR position when she questioned misappropriation of ERISA-governed Read More

• posted: Feb. 28, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• CTFC,  recordkeeping failures

Late last year, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission reached a $710 million settlement with 11 major financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Citibank and Bank Read More

• posted: Feb. 23, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Covid-19
• coronavirus-related misconduct

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a lot of change—and ample opportunities for fraud and misconduct. If you know of coronavirus-related misconduct, consider alerting the government. Not only are there protections Read More

• posted: Feb. 09, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• employer wrongdoing

The city of Shreveport, Louisiana is facing a whistleblower lawsuit. Former City of Shreveport Controller Ben Hebert filed an action against the city for wrongful termination, claiming it happened because Read More

• posted: Feb. 07, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower awards,  SEC,  denied claim

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a Whistleblower Program, which encourages insiders to provide tips regarding wrongdoing. Qualified whistleblowers may receive anywhere from ten to 30 percent of the Read More

• posted: Feb. 02, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• Anti-Kickback Statute

The former Vice President of Product Management at Modernizing Medicine, Inc., has led to a $45 million settlement for a healthcare kickback scheme. Amanda Long filed a whistleblower action in Read More

• posted: Jan. 26, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• SEC,  SEC whistleblower awards,  cryptocurrency

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just released their Whistleblower Program report for the 2022 fiscal year. The Whistleblower Program incentivizes whistleblowers to report wrongdoing. The findings reveal that the Read More

• posted: Jan. 24, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• employer retaliation,  healthcare fraud,  workplace safety

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of nurses and other healthcare professionals in a whole new way. Nurses are on the “front lines” of healthcare, often the first people to Read More

• posted: Jan. 19, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• securities regulations,  self-reporting

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) runs a whistleblower rewards program, which has encouraged over 50,000 tips in the last decade. This has resulted in collecting nearly $5 billion in Read More

• posted: Jan. 10, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• telehealth,  telehealth medicare fraud

The COVID-19 pandemic made telehealth essential. With shutdowns across the country, people still needed medical care, and telehealth came to the rescue. The number of “virtual” physicians increased from zero Read More

• posted: Jan. 05, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Eli Lilly,  unlawful retaliation

Three years ago, Amrit Mula was a top human resources officer at Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical giant in New Jersey. Now, she’s filing an unlawful retaliation lawsuit in New Jersey Read More

• posted: Jan. 03, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• windfalls

Despite claims by offending companies, whistleblowers aren’t getting rich by reporting their employers. If anything, they suffer steep consequences and often wait years before receiving compensation. Here are the facts Read More

• posted: Dec. 29, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• healthcare billing fraud

A physician, his son and their medical practice agreed to pay the U.S. $980,000 to resolve allegations arising from the False Claims Act. The pair allegedly submitted medically unnecessary urine Read More

• posted: Dec. 27, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• false Medicare claims

American Senior Communities LLC, or ASC, violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare. The organization recently agreed with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pay just Read More

• posted: Dec. 22, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  SEC whistleblower awards

Investment and public interest groups applaud recent changes in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules. After previous efforts to weaken these rules, the SEC restored the regulations to better award Read More