By C. Ryan Barber | June 3, 2019
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded about $3 million to a pair of whistleblowers who jointly alerted the agency to misconduct harming retail investors and assisted with an investigation that resulted in a successful enforcement action.
By Ross Todd | May 13, 2019
The firm was seeking to breathe new life into its lawsuit against four chemical companies it claims withheld information that could have cost them $90 billion in fines and penalties from the EPA.
By Ross Todd | April 15, 2019
Fortinet, a network security company, reached a deal worth $545,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit. Lawyers for the whistleblower say that former DOJ lawyer and Akin Gump partner Jeffrey Wertkin tried to sell the company a copy of the complaint while it was still under seal.
By C. Ryan Barber | March 4, 2019
“Dismissal will remain the exception, not the new rule," said Michael Granston, director of the fraud section in the Justice Department's civil division.
By Jenna Greene | January 17, 2019
Lawyers argued that The Bloom Firm's legal consulting agreement created a conflict of interest.
By Michael Booth | January 2, 2019
The appeals court said there was sufficient evidence to show that United did, in fact, retaliate against plaintiff David Grant for firing him after he made his complaints.
By Phillip Bantz | December 28, 2018
The health care industry—and drug and medical device makers in particular—paid the most to settle fraud allegations, the bulk of which came to the government's attention as the result of whistleblower complaints.
By Karen Sloan | November 15, 2018
Former Charlotte School of Law Professor Barbara Bernier alleged that the now-closed school defrauded the federal government of close to $300 million in federal student loans, but a judge ruled that her allegations were too vague and were barred by earlier suits.
By Scott Flaherty | September 19, 2018
Richard Levine, an associate general counsel for legal policy at the Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined Labaton Sucharow as a partner.
By C. Ryan Barber | September 18, 2018
“Under the proposed rule, it would be far too easy for the commission, in hindsight, to claim that it could have or would have learned of a fraud on its own," Harry Markopolos, who blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff, tells the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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