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False Claims Act Update & Alert |
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Taxpayers
Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. |
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Judiciary Moves on FCA At the encouragement of a recent Supreme Court decision, two House Judiciary Subcommittees are expected to report out amendments to the False Claims Act designed to close a number of loopholes, including those abused by Iraq War fraudfeasors. The amendments have bipartisan support at the highest levels of both the House and Senate. |
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 CBS Features
Walgreens
Case
Last week CBS News
featured a segment on the recently
settled
$35 million Walgreens pill-switching False
Claims Act case. >>
To read the transcript
and see the video. |
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U.S. Bilked Out of $105 MillionRita Campos Ramirez, a high school dropout, used her laptop computer to steal $105 million from U.S. taxpayers over a four-year period. Her game: electronically submitting more than 140,000 claims for unnecessary equipment and services on behalf of Miami HIV clinics. Her fees for orchestrating the scam bought her two condominiums and a Mercedes-Benz. >> To read more |
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 IRS
Losing
$100 Billion a Year?
Senator Levin Carl Levin (D) of Michigan
estimates offshore tax havens cost the U.S. government
$100 billion a year in lost revenue -- a major part of the
$345 billion
a year "tax gap." A new IRS whistleblower law may help close a little of
that tax gap by incentivizing people with insider information to come
forward.
In Europe, a multimillion dollar sum paid to an insider has already
resulted in hundreds of names being attached to tax-dodging accounts.
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 Adulterated
Offshore Meds?Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has asked the FDA to evaluate its outsourcing oversight practices, noting that the Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA has observed that many drug companies are now outsourcing operations overseas because of “lower, less stringent standards in some parts of the world.” >> To read more |
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