A recent study by Boston University professor Jetson Leder-Luis, entitled Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare, found that deterrence from $1.9 billion in False Claims Act settlement payments generated almost $19 billion in Medicare cost savings – a 10:1 deterrent effect. Professor Leder-Luis concludes that whistleblower-initiated False Claims Act cases are […]

Teachers should make more money. Even principals should make more money. But they probably shouldn’t do it by secretly holding two jobs with overlapping hours at the same time. The Washington, DC Attorney General’s office recently announced a settlement under its District False Claims Act (the DC equivalent of a state False Claims Act) against […]

Last week, OFAC announced a whopping $215,988,868 penalty against a San Francisco venture capital firm for sanctions violations and for failing to comply with an OFAC subpoena. That number represents the maximum applicable civil monetary penalty. According to the agency’s press release, the firm, GVA Capital Ltd., knowingly continued to manage an investment for Russian […]