Former Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) (NASDAQ: TSLA) employee, Martin Tripp (“Tripp”), has been sued in Nevada federal court by the car behemoth for allegedly hacking into the company’s manufacturing system and …
In March, the IRS and two whistleblowers reached a settlement to a long-pending dispute regarding the amount of money that an IRS whistleblower is entitled to receive for successfully reporting …
On May 30, 2018, Minnesota became the most recent state to join the list of states filing lawsuits in whistleblower litigation against Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics, Inc. (“Insys”) (INSY.O): Arizona, New …
Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, who was charged with libel for exposing the illegal doping scandal during the 2014 Sochi Olympics of Russian Olympic athletes, has now filed a motion to dismiss …
On February 21, 2018, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the anti-retaliation protections passed by Congress after the 2008 financial crisis extend only to individuals who report suspected violations …
Following months of hinting that the Department of Justice (“DOJ” or “Department”) would change its qui tam policies, Michael Granston (“Granston”), Director of the Civil Fraud Section, announced that the …
During the past year, Wells Fargo has faced a number of scandals. In addition to the bank account scandal (here) in which millions of accounts were set up under customers’ …
It has been some time since this Blog has written about the False Claims Act (“FCA”). In today’s post, this Blog looks at the Seventh Circuit’s recent embrace of the …
On October 17, 2017, the National Whistleblower Center, a non-profit, tax-exempt, non-partisan whistleblower legal advocacy organization, Senator Charles Grassley, and the U.S. Government filed amici briefs before the U.S. Supreme …
On Monday, June 26, 2017, the United States Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the anti-retaliation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd-Frank …
