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TAF Education Fund 20011 Award Winners
Michael F. Hertz Michael F. Hertz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, has been given the Honest Abe Integrity in Government Award for 2011 by the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund. For 25 years, Michael Hertz has been “Mr. False Claims Act” at the U.S. Department of Justice, shaping the way the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions are interpreted and used. Mr. Hertz has been instrumental in defending the constitutionality of the provisions, and remains a relentless advocate of the government's interest, exhibiting uncompromising professionalism, integrity, and judgment, which serves as a model for U.S. Department of Justice. >> To read more
____________ Ken Nolan and Marcella Auerbach have settled five
multimillion-dollar qui tam cases in the past year, including an unprecedented
string of three nine-figure settlements in a single month. These
cases include recoveries against Novartis Pharmaceuticals ($422
million overall); Allergan ($600 million overall); Forest
Laboratories ($300 million overall); St. Jude Medical ($16 million
overall); and a million dollar settlement from Remedi Seniorcare, a
long-term care pharmacy.
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Whistleblower of the Year Award: Chris Riedel is CEO of a Hunter Labs and, as such, he filed seven qui tam cases under the California False Claims Act, alleging a broad pattern of business plan fraud in which California laboratories routinely and systematically overcharged California's Medicaid program while giving doctors deep discounts for non-Medicaid patient referrals. These frauds not only resulted in price-gouging against Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid system, but they also made it difficult for new laboratories to gain a share of the lab testing market. Mr. Riedel's cases were filed in 2005, and in 2008 the California Attorney General's office joined all seven cases. Earlier this year the first case, against Quest Diagnostics, settled for $241 million. More recently, a case against LabCorp settled for $49.5 million. The five defendants ahead include: Health Line Clinical Labs, Westcliff Medical Labs, Physicians Immunodiagnostic Laboratory, Whitefield Medical Laboratory, and Seacliff Diagnostics Medical Group. >> To read more ____________
Neil Getnick is Chairman of Taxpayers Against Fraud and
for more than a decade he has played a leading role in our battles
to enact and effectuate whistleblower legislation, from working to
strengthen the federal False Claims Act, to getting a New York State
False Claims Act enacted into law, and from getting an IRS
whistleblower program embraced by Congress to shepherding SEC and
CFTC whistleblower provisions into existence.
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