Five Whistleblowers Share $1.7 M in Medicare Fraud Case
Whistleblowers Daryl Kaczymarczyk, Patricia Rocha, Michelle Pate, Michael Brigle and Theresa Taylor, will share $1.7 million in compensation as a result of revealing fraudulent Medicare claims filed by a former long-term acute-care service based in Dallas. SCCI Houston was part of SCCI Health Services Corp., which operated six acute-care facilities in Texas and others outside the state. The new owner of the firm has agreed to pay the federal government $7.5 million to settle allegations of fraudulent Medicare claims, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this month. The problematic claims were settled by the new owner, Tribune Healthcare. Read the complete article by the Houston Chronicle online.
IRS Encourage Whistleblowers to Snitch On Tax Cheats of $2 million or More
You work at a corporation and find that it is cheating the IRS out of more than $2 million per year. Or maybe you know an extremely wealthy person who owes lots of taxes but has not (and does not) intend to pay. Perhaps you might want to get yourself an attorney. IRS may just reward you for blowing the whistle on these big time tax evaders. How much? Up to 30% of anything it collects. Its part of a new tax bill just signed into law. Well talk about this more in the coming weeks. Find out more now:
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Jury Rules in Favor of Former Employee Who Informed on Co-Workers
A jury of six women and one man in U.S. District Court awarded a former Oregon airport employee $365,000 in damages after she was allegedly retailated against by her superiors in a whistleblower case. The suit against Jackson County contended that Lynda Longfellow, a former parking enforcement officer, had been retaliated against by her superiors at the county airport, infringing on her free-speech rights. Among the allegations were that two airport security personnel were fired for sleeping on the job and another employee was fired after the theft of a laptop computer. “This trial focused on an epidemic of problems of security officers sleeping on the job,” said Medford attorney Thad Guyer, who represented Longfellow.