• posted: Jun. 11, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• compliance officer

On April 22, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an award of between $1.4 million and $1.6 million given to a compliance officer who alerted authorities to wrongdoing Read More

• posted: Jun. 08, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• HCR ManorCare,  Medicare,  nursing home,  whistleblower lawsuit

For the past six years, the Ohio-based nursing home chain HCR ManorCare has been embroiled in a whistleblower lawsuit featuring allegations that the company systematically overbilled Medicare and often put Read More

• posted: Jun. 04, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• Rutgers University,  termination,  UMDNJ

Rutgers University recently merged with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, but as a result it also inherited a pair of ongoing whistleblower claims against that school. Read More

• posted: Jun. 01, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• cover up,  wait time data

Over the past year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been a fixture in national news for the controversies surrounding the extremely long wait times veterans have experienced for Read More

• posted: May 28, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• New Jersey Transit

New Jersey Transit paid nearly $700,000 to settle a federal whistleblower complaint filed by one of its conductors. The conductor claimed he was the victim of retaliation from the agency Read More

• posted: May 25, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower program

The U.S. Senate passed the first-ever piece of whistleblower legislation specific to automotive safety April 28. The proposed measure provides incentives to whistleblowers within the auto industry to come forward Read More

• posted: May 21, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• toxic dust

A judge from the U.S. Department of Labor rebuked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its concealment of evidence in a case from several years ago against a senior chemist Read More

• posted: May 18, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• Veterans Affairs

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been the subject of controversy for much of the past year after a variety of whistleblowers exposed a nationwide problem of extremely long Read More

• posted: May 14, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• employer retaliation,  workplace retaliation,  fraud,  whistleblower award program

Since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower award program was launched more than three years ago, the agency has handed out payments of more than $50 million to 17 Read More

• posted: May 11, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• budget proposals

The 2016 Fiscal Year budget proposals set forth by the U.S. Department of Labor indicate that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has requested an additional $49 million for Read More

• posted: May 07, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• MTA,  whistleblower complaint

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has had plenty of public troubles lately, the most recent of which has resulted in a fine of more than $50,000 after the agency Read More

• posted: May 04, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• JC Penney,  retaliation claim

A former part-time employee of department store JC Penney filed a retaliation claim, saying they were fired after alerting authorities that the retailer was overcharging its customers. This is just Read More

• posted: Apr. 30, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• Aramark,  food violations,  Occupational Safety and Health Administration,  wrongfully terminated

Jon Costa, a former employee of Aramark, claims that the company fired him after he publicized a number of major food violations that the company committed in its work at Read More

• posted: Apr. 27, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• fraud settlement,  H-1B workers,  Infosys,  visa laws

A whistleblower that works for Indian tech corporation Infosys claims that H-1B workers that replace Americans in their positions have little to no business knowledge and very few relevant skills Read More

• posted: Apr. 23, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• adverse action,  malicious,  retaliation suit,  wrongdoing

Whether you think that you have a workplace retaliation case or you simply want to arm yourself with information before you decide to blow the whistle on shady company practices, Read More

• posted: Apr. 20, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• confidentiality,  internal communications,  privileged communications

In many circumstances, courts say that corporations might relinquish privilege protection through internal privileged communications even beyond employees who have a “need to know.” This policy is often criticized because Read More