By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | October 31, 2023
Kelli Williams, a former construction manager for Atlanta-based Southern Co., filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company and its subsidiary Mississippi Power Co. in 2018. That lawsuit, unsealed Monday, alleges that the two firms defrauded the U.S. Department of Energy and state regulators in a failed quest to build a $7.5 billion power plant.
By Chris O'Malley | October 24, 2023
The agency unleashed a $10 million civil fine in one recent case, and went after a private company for the first time in another.
By ALM Staff | October 18, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
By Everett Catts | October 16, 2023
"I feel proud that we were able to obtain it for Dr. [Niles] Rosen and the American taxpayers, but I believe that it could have been more had he not had to deal with the advisory opinion that was issued very late in the case and shortly before trial, which directly impacted our claims," said plaintiff attorney Brandon Peak of Peak Wooten McDaniel & Colwell in Columbus, Ga.
By Everett Catts | June 5, 2023
The whistleblower, Amy Vermillion, "brought a case [the government] never would have known about, [and the defendants] would have continued the fraud if it wasn't for her bringing this forward," said her lawyer, Mike Bothwell.
By Adolfo Pesquera | May 28, 2023
The report claims it was Paxton's opinion that the complainants "were creating a toxic environment in the office," but that no one discussed firing them because of information provided to the FBI.
By The Associated Press | April 11, 2023
A U.S. District Court judge in Brunswick sentenced 46-year-old Juan Rangel-Rubio nearly six months after a jury convicted him of conspiring to kill a witness and other criminal counts.
By Mason Lawlor | February 7, 2023
Pittsburgh-based law firm Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Basick & Raspanti announced that two whistleblowers from Florence, South Carolina, have settled their 10-year qui tam nonintervened lawsuit against Laboratory Corporation of America (Labcorp) for $19 million.
By Cedra Mayfield | November 14, 2022
After a five-day trial, a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia jury convicted Mexican citizen Juan Rangel-Rubio of Rincon of federal conspiracy charges in the 2017 murder of Eliud Montoya.
By Mason Lawlor | August 2, 2022
"No employee should live in fear of what will happen to them if they report misconduct, least of all misconduct that affects millions of Americans."
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