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U.S. v. Academy Mortgage Corp., Episode Too-Many-to-Count, “The Whistleblower Strikes Back”

U.S. v. Academy Mortgage Corp., Episode Too-Many-to-Count, “The Whistleblower Strikes Back” August 28, 2022. By Anne Wallace.
San Francisco, CAThere’s a new twist in U.S. v. Academy Mortgage Corp., a whistleblower lawsuit brought by former underwriter, Gwen Thrower. In 2016, Thrower filed a claim under the False Claims Act (FCA), asserting that Academy Mortgage was making mortgage loans that did not meet established Federal Housing Authority (FHA) credit requirements. The FHA insures the mortgage and pays the lender if the homebuyer defaults on or fails to repay the loan. Only lenders that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) approves can participate in the program.
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U.S. v. Academy Mortgage Corp., the Whistleblower Lawsuit that Will not Die

U.S. v. Academy Mortgage Corp., the Whistleblower Lawsuit that Will not Die July 27, 2022. By Anne Wallace.
San Francisco, CA  Academy Mortgage Corp. has asked the Northern District of California to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a former underwriter, Gwen Thrower. The lawsuit, which was initially filed in 2016, accuses Academy Mortgage of writing shaky FHA-backed mortgage loans to boost the company’s profits. In 2020, the federal government unsuccessfully sought to the lawsuit dismissed in the Ninth Circuit. In 2018, the Northern District had denied a similar motion.
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The Big Story of UBS Whistleblower Lawsuit

The Big Story of UBS Whistleblower Lawsuit July 7, 2022. By Anne Wallace.
New York, NY After nearly seven years in court, Trevor Murray prevailed in his whistleblower lawsuit against UBS Securities, his former employer. The latest flurry of activity is an after-the-fact attempt by UBS’s attorneys to reduce the firm’s financial liability. No harm, no foul. It’s simply what diligent lawyers try to do.
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Whistleblower Outed Abbott Labs Two Years Before FDA Closed Sturgis Plant

Whistleblower Outed Abbott Labs Two Years Before FDA Closed Sturgis Plant June 20, 2022. By Anne Wallace.
Sturgis, MI  Evidence of contaminated baby formula sounds like it should have been an “all-hands-on-deck” emergency for Abbott Laboratories and the Food and Drug Administration. Instead, it took the FDA nearly two years to send inspectors to the Sturgis, Michigan plant, where they found “shocking” conditions. By then two babies had died and several more had become ill. Had it not been for the dogged persistence of a whistleblower who filed federal and state OSHA complaints as well as an FDA complaint, the tainted formula could have hurt many more.

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Kickback Scheme Spawns Humira Whistleblower Lawsuit and Investor Backlash

Kickback Scheme Spawns Humira Whistleblower Lawsuit and Investor Backlash May 30, 2022. By Anne Wallace.
Wilmington, DE  On May 17, an investor sued AbbVie, alleging that the manufacturer of Humira defrauded investors by permitting the company to engage in an illegal “kickback scheme” that caused the value of the stock to plummet. The shareholder derivative lawsuit arises from a number of whistleblower lawsuits, including one filed in California in 2018. These brought to light AbbVie’s scheme to induce doctors to prescribe Humira by showering them with cash, meals, drinks, gifts, trips, patient referrals and the services of nurse “ambassadors.” Ranney v. Gonzalez is just the latest fallout from AbbVie’s controversial “white coat marketing” efforts.
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The Whistleblower and H&M Unused Gift Cards - $36 Million Settlement

The Whistleblower and H&M Unused Gift Cards - $36 Million Settlement May 23, 2022. By Jane Mundy.
New York, NY A whistleblower is getting a big payout after he filed a lawsuit under the New York False Claims Act, accusing H&M of keeping millions of dollars in unused funds from its gift cards. Rather than transferring unredeemed gift card balances to the Abandoned Property Fund as the law stipulates, H&M lied about an out-of-state company handling its gift cards business. But H&M didn’t count on the whistleblower: greed ultimately cost the fashion retailer $36 million—from keeping about $18.4 million in unused gift cards. Clearly, deception doesn’t pay when the whistle is blown.
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Debtor-in-Possession Bankruptcy for MD Helicopters?

Debtor-in-Possession Bankruptcy for MD Helicopters? May 3, 2022. By Anne Wallace.
Wilmington, DE MD Helicopters Inc. appears to have secured financing that will allow the company to emerge from bankruptcy as an operating business. The company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition was, however, only the latest twist in a case that began as a whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.
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Surgical Company and its Physician Owner Settle for $3 million Whistleblower Lawsuit

Surgical Company and its Physician Owner Settle for $3 million Whistleblower Lawsuit February 27, 2022. By Jane Mundy.
Alpharetta, GA A federal whistleblower lawsuit claiming that Dr. Jeffrey Gallups, the owner of Milton Hall Surgical Associates in Georgia, directed his physicians—one of whom blew the whistle-- to order unnecessary tests for their patients to defraud government health programs has reached a $3 million settlement.
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Auditor Whistleblower vs. PricewaterhouseCoopers

Auditor Whistleblower vs. PricewaterhouseCoopers May 7, 2021. By Jane Mundy.
San Francisco, CA Former senior manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers claims he was fired in retaliation for a whistleblower claim he made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Mauro Botta was an auditor at the behemoth auditing company for almost two decades until he was fired in 2017.

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2018 Busy Year for HealthCare Whistleblowers

2018 Busy Year for HealthCare Whistleblowers January 23, 2019. By Jane Mundy.
Washington, DC: Of more than $ 2.8 billion that the Department of Justice (DOJ)obtained in settlements and judgments from fraudsters in 2018, $2.5 billion involved the health care industry, and the largest recoveries came from drug and medical device manufacturers. And 2018 was a very good year for most all Whistleblowers (three whistleblower fraudsters were also busted last year.)
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