Posted on December 9, 2015
The federal government recovered more than $3.5 billion taxpayer dollars in fraud and false claims cases in the 2015 fiscal year, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. This is the fourth year in a row that the department has exceeded $3.5 billion in cases under the False Claims...
Posted on December 4, 2015
Laurence Vinocur and Sport Squad LLC have reached a settlement for alleged Proposition 65 violations. Proposition 65 requires companies offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and/or reproductive harm to...
Posted on December 2, 2015
Peter Englander, Dr. Anthony E. Held, and Dr. Whitney R. Leeman have issued 14 new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 to companies offering products such as vinyl/PVC gloves, drinking glasses with exterior designs, and vinyl/PVC hoses in California that contain chemicals known to the...
Posted on November 25, 2015
Laurence Vinocur has negotiated a settlement with Kmart Corporation over alleged Proposition 65 violations. TDCPP is a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, and Vinocur had alleged that Kmart sold tents and shelters that contained the flame retardant chemical TDCPP...
Posted on November 20, 2015
Mark Moorberg has filed a complaint against TFI, Inc. and Big Lots alleging violations of Proposition 65. Proposition 65 requires companies offering products for sale that contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm to provide consumers with a...
Posted on November 20, 2015
Education Management Corp. (EDMC), the second-largest for-profit educational company in the United States of America, will pay $95.5 million to settle allegations that EDMC knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims by falsely certifying that it was in compliance with Title IV of...
Posted on November 16, 2015
Citizen enforcer Mark Moorberg has filed a complaint in Marin County Superior Court alleging that Liberty Glove violated Proposition 65 by selling vinyl/PVC gloves that contained DINP without a health hazard warning. DINP is known to the State of California to cause cancer, and companies...
Posted on November 16, 2015
NetCracker Technology Corp. has agreed to pay $11.4 million and Computer Sciences Corp. has agreed to pay $1.35 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims by sending individuals without security clearances on a Defense Systems...
Posted on November 11, 2015
Dr. Anthony E. Held, Dr. Whitney R. Leeman, and Laurence Vinocur have issued seven new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 to companies offering products such as sunscreen, handheld exercise weights, and children’s play tents in California that contain chemicals known to the State...
Posted on November 9, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice announced last month that 457 hospitals in 43 states have agreed to a settlement of $250 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care program Medicare.
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