Colorado-based CH2M Hill Hanford Group (CHG) and its parent company CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. (CH2M Hill) admitted to criminal conduct when CHG engaged in years of widespread time card fraud on the U.S. Department of Energy. Between 1999 and 2008, CH2M Hill had a federal contract to manage and clean 177 large underground storage tanks containing mixed radioactive and...
New York-based Corning Incorporated has agreed to pay $5.65 million to the U.S. government to resolve allegations that it knowingly presented false claims for laboratory research products it sold to federal agencies through its Life Sciences division.
In 2005, Corning entered a contract to sell laboratory research products to the federal government through a program that...
American Systems Corporation, Anixter International Inc., and Corning Cable Systems LLC have agreed to pay the U.S. government $3 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Act while bidding on a contract with the CIA, the U.S. Justice Department announced today. The United States alleged that the three companies provided...
Florida-based HPH Hospice agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
The Medicare hospice benefit is available for patients who have a life expectancy of six months or less if their disease runs its normal course....
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor today issued the interim final regulations governing the employee protection (whistleblower) provision of section 1558 of the Affordable Care Act--also known as Obamacare--which added section 18C of the Fair Labor Standards Act, to provide protections to employees of health insurance issuers or...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it was joining a civil lawsuit alleging that Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel and Tailwind Sports LLC and Tailwind Sports Corporation (Tailwind) submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in connection with its sponsorship of a professional bicycle racing team by regularly employing...
The Internal Revenue Service released its Fiscal Year 2012 Report to Congress, which details awards paid to whistleblowers under the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006. The whistleblower award program generally requires the IRS to pay awards if information an individual provides substantially contributes to the collection of tax, penalties, interest, and other...
A dermatologist in Venice, Florida, has agreed to pay $26.1 million to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by accepting illegal kickbacks from a pathology laboratory and by billing Medicare for medically unnecessary services, the U.S. Justice Department announced today. The settlement is the largest ever with an individual under the False Claims...
A jury ordered a nursing home in Illinois to pay a total of $29 million in penalties for false Medicare claims to the government. Two former employees at the facility filed a complaint that the home allegedly destroyed and/or forged records to make it appear that residents were receiving appropriate care and medications, while residents allegedly went without food or...
On February 5, 2013, California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a lawsuit against Standard and Poor's Financial Services LLC and the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. , alleging violations of the California False Claims Act and other state law for inflating ratings of investments, which caused California's teachers public employees' pension funds, among others, to...
