Last week, U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden and Chairman Mike Crapo introduced the Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act, a bipartisan bill seeking to improve a wide range of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) procedures and administration. Among other notable reforms, the Act incorporates another rare piece of bipartisan legislation: The IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement […]
Sanctions enforcement is usually discussed in the language of tankers, banks, and cross‑border payments. But a recent enforcement action by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the top sanctions regulator in the U.S., reads more like an admissions file. Earlier this month, IMG Academy, an elite youth sports academy where tuition runs nearly $100,000 […]
First published on PR Newswire – Across the Pond, an education recruitment company that places U.S. students in U.K. universities, and its co-founder have collectively agreed to pay $1.3 million dollars to settle claims they violated U.S. rules around how recruitment companies are paid when targeting U.S. students that receive federal loans. This settlement resolves […]
In a much-awaited decision, the Supreme Court today held in Learning Resources, Inc., et al. v. Trump that tariffs President Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are invalid. Customs and Border Protection statistics show that about $130 billion in IEEPA tariffs have been collected since 2025. Beyond its major economic impact, […]
Earlier this month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) submitted its Fiscal Year 2025 Whistleblower & Customer Education Report to Congress, a statutorily mandated account of the agency’s whistleblower program. The report provides useful data on tips received and awards granted, but it also highlights a troubling trend: the CFTC’s whistleblower award cadence and award […]
Last week, the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS OIG) issued new compliance program guidance for parties involved in Medicare Advantage, updating the prior guidance it issued over two decades ago. The report flags several high priority risk areas, described below, and repeatedly warns that these parties […]
The Department of Justice announced extraordinary results for fiscal year 2025, with False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments exceeding $6.8 billion—the highest amount recovered in a single year in the statute's history. The FCA has now yielded over $85 billion in settlements and judgments since it was enhanced through Congressional amendments in 1986. These […]
Whistleblower Partners is proud to announce that our client, Dr. James Taylor, the United States, and another whistleblower have reached a settlement with Kaiser Permanente and various subsidiaries to resolve allegations of Medicare Advantage risk adjustment fraud for $556 million. This is the largest False Claims Act settlement in over three years. It is also […]
Early this month, CVS agreed to pay nearly $38M to settle five related whistleblower cases concerning its dispensing of insulin pens. The government and many whistleblowers alleged that CVS improperly requested and received reimbursement for premature refills, dispensed more insulin pens than patients needed according to their prescriptions, and falsely under-reported the days-of-supply of insulin […]
The UK government, following the lead of successful US programs, has launched a new whistleblower reward initiative in His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK’s tax authority, designed to encourage individuals to report serious tax fraud, including those involving wealthy high-net-worth individuals, large corporations and offshore or avoidance schemes. This program, announced on November […]
