False Claims Act Update & Alert

 
 

Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. | WWW.TAF.ORG
June 4, 2008

 
     
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Walgreens Pays $35 Million
Walgreens is the third national pharmacy chain to settle drug switching allegations exposed by a whistleblowing pharmacist whose actions have helped return more than $120 million to federal and state governments. Current charges involve Walgreens switching dosage forms in filling generic Prozac, Zantac and Eldepryl prescriptions paid for by Medicaid. >> To read more
   

Pasha Settles for $13 Million
The Pasha Group has agreed to pay $13 million to settle FCA charges alleging the company engaged in bid-rigging in connection with furniture shipments for the Dept. of Defense. Five other companies are implicated. >> To read more

A Yacht Named "Fringe Benefit"
Peter Rogan faces criminal obstruction and perjury charges related to his efforts to shelter assets offshore and avoid paying the U.S. Government $64 million related to fraud at Edgewater Medical Center. Rogan claims he does not control the money even though millions of dollars have gone to pay his personal expenses, including maintenance on his 48-foot yacht named "Fringe Benefit." >> To read more

Does South Florida Represent
20 Percent of Medicare Fraud?

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukase
y says twenty percent of all federal Medicare fraud prosecutions are filed in South Florida . >> To read more
 

DoJ Suits Up Against Kaplan
The U.S. Dept. of Justice has filed a brief opposing Kaplan University's attempt to have a False Claims Act lawsuit against it dismissed. DoJ's brief in the Kaplan case mirrors the stance DoJ took in 2005 after a similar False Claims Act lawsuit against the for-profit University of Phoenix was initially dismissed. >> To read more

Massive IRS Whistleblower Case?
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating allegations made by Joseph Insinga, a former Rabobank Group executive, that the Dutch bank engaged in a $450 million transaction with Newell Rubbermaid Inc. designed to help that consumer-goods company illegally avoid taxes. >> To read more