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Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. |
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 Texas Jury Trial
Results in $170 Million Verdict in Pharmaceutical Fraud CaseDon't mess with Texas. That's the message for the drug industry, where one Icelandic generic drug maker had the temerity to take an Average Wholesale Price fraud case to jury trial. The result: a $170 million judgment and likely exclusion from Texas Medicaid for Actavis, the privately-held generic drug maker that acquired Purepac and Alpharma pharmaceuticals. To date, the Texas Attorney General's office has settled or won judgments for over $425 million against 13 drug companies. >> To read more |
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 Oracle to Pay $46 MillionOracle has agreed to pay $46 million to settle a False Claims Act case what alleges Sun Microsystems, which merged with Oracle in 2010, paid kickbacks to consultants in return for recommendations from those companies that the federal government buy Sun products. This settlement is one of over $250 million worth of computer procurement fraud kickback cases brought by whistleblowers Norman Rille and Neal Roberts. >> To read more (PDF) |
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 CareSource
Pays $26 Million, Sheds Light on Absence of Ohio FCA Whistleblowers Laura Rupert and Robin Herzog blew the whistle on CareSource Management Group in Ohio, which billed for, but did not provide, required screening, assessment, and case management for special needs adults and children. The case was settled for $26 million, but Ohio lost out on additional money from the Federal Government because the state remains without a state False Claims Act of any kind. >> To read more |
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 State Pension Frauds and State
FCA LawsA host of states may have been defrauded out of many hundreds of millions of dollars by banks ripping off state pension funds in foreign currency trades. California, Virginia, and Florida have already joined state False Claims Act cases, and New York is said to be investigating. Not said: states that have Medicaid-only False Claims Act laws may miss out on recovering all of their stolen money. Stay tuned! >> To read more |
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