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December 8, 2010
n Drug Companies Pay Over $421 Million for Average Wholesale Price Fraud
n Abbott Nailed a Second Time... On the Same Day, for Fraud!
n The FCA: $28 Billion and Counting
November 5, 2010
n Pharma Manufacturing Fraud Results in $750 Million FCA Settlement
n TAF 2010 Awards Winners
n Genentech Offers Secret Rebates
November 3, 2010
n TAF 20010 Award Winners
September 2, 2010
n Allergan Settles for $600 Million
n HP Pays $55 Million for Kickbacks
n Contractors Afraid of Their Records?
n Saint John's Health to Pay $5.25 Million
August 26 2010
n GSA: Where Best Price Does Not Mean a Good Price
n DePuy Ortho In Trouble Again
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August 5, 2010
n HP to Pay $50 Million
n At Tenet, It's Déjà Vu All Over Again
n Privatizing the Profit
n For Profit Colleges Encouraging Fraud
June 7, 2010
n Tuomey Must Pay $45 Million
n St. Jude's Kickbacks
n University of Texas Under Investigation
n SBA Lender to Pay $26 Millio
April 6, 2010
n ExxonMobil to Pay $32 Million for Fraud... and No Taxes in FY 2009
n DoJ Joins Against KBR in Iraq
n SD of NY Forming Civil Fraud Unit
n Whistle-blowers Find More Fraud than Regulators
n NJ Hospital to Pay $6.35 Million
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March 8, 2010
n EMC to Pay $87.5 Million
n Two Nursing Homes Settle
n Healthcare is Over 50 Percent Waste and Fraud?
n Swedish Rubber Co. to Settle
n Staffing Firm Prepares for Possible Settlement
n Christiana Care Health Systems Settles for $3.3 Million
n Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center to Pay $2.92 Million
n New True Crime Thriller on the Bernie Madoff Fraud
February 3, 2010
n Novartis To Plead Guilty
n Major Drug Cases in the Wings
n Will Stimulus Money See Repeat Players in the Game of Fraud?
n Atricure to Pay U.S. $3.76 Million
n A Smoking Gun PowerPoint
December 4, 2009
n Four Companies pay $39 Million to Settle California Whistleblower Case
n NJ Hospital Pays $3 Million
n Sports Clinic Pays $3 Million
n Three FCA Cases In Orbit
November 2, 2009
n Astra Zeneca Reserves $520 Million for Seroquel Settlement
n Fifteen States Join Amgen FCA
n Enforcement Resources Needed
n Texas Hospital Group to Pay $27 Million
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September 2, 2009
n Pfizer Settles Largest False Claims Act Case Ever
August 6, 2009
n State Zyprexa Deal in the Wings
n Baxter Pays $6.8 Million to IL
n Computer Assets to Pay $350,000
n Tulare Healthcare Settlement
n Allegran's Botox Problem
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July 7, 2009
n DoJ Joins Suit Against SAIC
n Massive DME Fraud Scheme
n Yale Hospital Pays $3 Million
n Beazer to Pay Many Millions
June 3, 2009
n Aventis Settles for $95.5 Million
n Pogue Case Against Healthways Settles for $40 Million
n Crooks Worry About Tougher FCA
n Sen. Grassley on Bipartisan Support for Amendments to the FCA
n Documents Show AstraZeneca Off-label Marketed Seroquel
n URS Unit Pays $1.7 Million
n Alabama Hits Hard
May 6, 2009
n House Passes Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act: 367 to 59
May 5, 2009
n Forest Reserves $170 Million
n WellCare to Pay $80 Million
n Maxxam Pays for Forest Fraud
n Shipping Firm to Pay $26 Million
n DoJ Joins HSUS Lawsuit Against Slaughterhouse
n KBR Is Named in Majority of Iraq Frauds Under Investigation
n Fake Merck Peer-reviewed Journal Printed by Elsevier
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April 2, 2009
n TAF Testifies in Support of FCA Amendments
n California Sues Seven Labs
n Par Pharma Subpoenaed
n Radiology Firm to Pay $2 Million
n Houston Hospital to Pay $9.9 Million for Outlier Fraud
n A Three-Legged Watchdog
n Sikorsky to Pay $2.9 Million
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December 5, 2008
n MedQuist to Pay $6.6 Million
n $11 Million for Mortgage Fraud
n Condell to Pay $36 Million
n TN Hospitals Pay $5.9 Million
n Jaw Dropping "Error" Rates
n Investigating IT Price-Gouging
n Rumors of UBS Tax Settlement
n The High Cost of Free Samples
n Seeking Doctor Relators
November 5, 2008
n Barack Obama, FCA Attorney
n Schering's Big Loss in MO
n Defective Flares a Threat
n Blowing the Whistle at DoD?
n Adult Day Care Fraud
October 7, 2008
n Lilly Consumer to Settlement a Prelude to FCA?
n WellCare In the Crosshairs
n Armor to Pay $30 Million
n Uncle Sam vs. McKesson Corp.
October 1, 2008
n Cephalon Pays $425 Million
n Unum SSD Fraud Goes to Trial
n EPO Linked to Stroke Deaths
n Walgreens to Pay $9.9 Million
n Ranbaxy PEPFAR Drugs Halted
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August 6, 2008
n More States Qualify Under DRA
n Pratt & Whitney to Pay $52 Million
n Conflict of Interest FCA
n Justice Probes Bile Stent Fraud
n Feds Seize Unapproved Drugs
n CoxHealth To Pay $60 Million
n W.W. Grainger to Pay $6 Million
n Medicare: Wide Open to Fraud
July 8, 2008
n Justice Needs More Resources
n DoJ Chases Fraudsters to Dominican Rep.
n Glaxo & Novartis Lose on AWP
n Judge Pushes to Settle Private Zyprexa Cases
June 4, 2008
n Walgreens Pays $35 Million
n Pasha Settles for $13 Million
n A Yacht Named "Fringe Benefit"
n Does South FL Represent 20% of Medicare Fraud?
n DoJ Suits Up Against Kaplan
n Massive IRS Whistleblower Case?
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May 2, 2008M
n UMDNJ Docs Sued for Kickbacks
n GSA's Lurita Doan Loses Job
n Are Fraud Files a Trade Secret?
n Savannah Hospital Pays $5 Million
n Cancer Doc Imports for Resale
n "Undercover" by John Schilling
n New York's Medicaid Work Plan
April 3, 2008
FCA Amendments Voted Out of Senate Judiciary Committee with Overwhelming Bipartisan support
March 6, 2008
n Allison Engine at Supreme Court
n Senate Judiciary Hearing on FCA
n Cathedral to Pay $5.3 Million
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February 8, 2008
n Merck Settles for $650 Million
n Alabama AWP Trial to Start
n "Undercover" by John Schilling
n Finally A Treatment
n Lilly Sued Over Zyprexa; Settlement Rumors Swirl
December 5, 2007
n Merck Settlement Expected to Top $670 Million
n $25 Million TVA Coal Settlement
n $25 Million Wheelchair Fraud
n OK Doctors to Pay $1.5 Million
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October 3, 2007
n Bristol-Myers Squibb To Pay $515 Million
n Hip and Knee Co.'s To Settle for $310 Million
September 4, 2007
n Infusion Therapy Fraud
n Home Health Fraud in NY
n Missing Weapons in Iraq
n Louisiana Revises State FCA
August 7, 2007
n A Fraud We Need Like a Hole in the Head
n Katrina Suit Out from Under
n Register Docs on the Take?
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July 3, 2007
n Cash for Docs, Drugs for Tots
n No More Business as Usual
n Texas is Latest State to Pass Muster with HHS
n New York's Fantastic Four
n Growing No-Bid Government
June 6, 2007
n TX Hospital to Pay $15.4 Mil.
n Katrina, Insurance & the FCA
n Jazz Settlement on Horizon?
n Stryker Still Holding the Bag
n Fake Brass Earns Lawsuit
n Blow Back From Peter Rost
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May 8, 2007
n $9.8 Million Off-Label Case
n Is Uncle Sam Out of Luck?
n U.S. Oncology Under the Gun
n Lilly Faces Big Penalties
n Tenet: Health Care Organized Crime
May 2, 2007
n Texas Amends State FCA
n Dey Settles in Massachusetts
n Fraud Factories or CME?
n California Hospital Pays $2 Million
n The High Cost of Free Lunches
April 3, 2007
n New York Passes State FCA
n Maxwell Case Overturned
n Pharmacia to Pay $35 Million
n Branda to Head Commercial Litigation Branch
n Caremark Loses Another One
n Cabrini Medical to Pay $3.4 Million
March 7, 2007
n $3.9 Billion in Pharmaceutical Fraud
Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
March 2, 2007
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February 6, 2007
n Waxman Fraud Hearings
n Fox in the Hen House
n New IRS Whistleblower Office
n Making MFCU's Accountable?
n How Much Medicaid Fraud Is Going Undiscovered?
n Nominal Drug Price Fraud
n Dollars, Not Sense
January 2, 2007
n A Standard for State FCA Acts
n Cuomo on the False Claims Act
n FCA Lawsuit Against Sovereign
n DoJ Statistics for FY 2006
n Texas Joins Risperdal Suit
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December 5, 2006
n Integris to Pay $12.2 Million
n Larkin to Pay $15.4 Million
n KBR Pays $8 Million for Balkans
n Supremes Hear FCA Case
n Captive Agency of the Year
n Blowing the Whistle On Big Oil
November 7, 2006
n In Plain English: Serious Trouble
n Crist Wins Governor's Slot in FL
n Spitzer Wins Governor's Slot in NY
n Cuomo Wins AG Slot in NY
n McCollum Wins AG Slot in FL
October 5, 2006
n Nursing Home to Pay $14.7 Million
n CMS Letter Pushes FCA Laws
n U. of Phoenix Faces EEOC Suit
n Supremes Take 17-Year Old Case
n Insurance Fraud Against Feds?
n HCFAC Report for 2005
October 4, 2006
n Record Fraud Recoveries in FY 2006
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September 2, 2006
Taxpayers Against Fraud Names Alan Grayson Lawyer of the Year for 2006
July 5, 2006
n Tenet Settles for $900 Million
n How Tenet Numbers Break Out
n Tenet's Long History of Fraud
n AT&T Settles for $2.9 Million
n Yale Under Investigation
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May 9, 2006
n Medco Says $163 Million Settlement Likely
n The Secret Politics of Custer Battles?
n Tenet's Alvarado Hosp. Faces Exclusion
n Katrina Contractors
n Oil and Gas Theft From Public Lands
n Pharmaceutical Cases To Date
May 2, 2006
n Grassley Says Whistleblowers Key to Success
n PA County Overbilled INS
n Red Cross Banks on Blood
n Dey Pays Missouri $2.93 Million
n Is a Housing Policy Shift Fraud?
April 4, 2006
n Did GAO Help Aid a Cover-Up?
n Reining in Medicaid Fraud
n Pfizer's Growing Lipitor Problem
March 28 2006
n NY Winks at Medicaid Fraud
n When a "Small Business" Is Not
n Texas Hospital Investigation
n Del. Hospital to Pay $1 Million
n New AstraZeneca Probe
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March 7, 2006
n Matria Case Settles for $9 Million
n Cash Back for State Action
n Counting the Swag
n Missouri Introduces State FCA
February 7, 2006
n New Model Law for the States
n Caremark: The TV Show
n Fraudulent Fire Inspection in Korea
n Boeing: Admitting Is the First Step
February 3, 2006
n Congress Creating New Tools to Fight Fraud
January 4, 2006
n ABN AMRO Mortgage Group To Pay $42 Million
n Michigan Passes False Claims Act
n US AID Fraud Recovery
n Eli Lilly Pays $36 Million
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December 6, 2005
n Beth Israel Settles for $73 Million
n Medco Settlement in the Works?
n DoJ Declines & Pfizer Fires
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August 9, 2005
n Harvard U. to Pay Over $31 M
n Dey Settles in Conn. for $2.5M
n Secret Settlements in Virginia
n Tobacco vs. Medicare Costs
n Medicare Free Fraud Zone??
n Serono Squabbling
August 2, 2005
n Not buying it? Think again.
n Grassley and Sensenbrenner Defend FCA
n NY "Treatment Center" Nailed for Kickbacks
n Nursing Home Fraud Victims
n CVS Is Pill Shorting ... Again
n Off-label Marketing Investigations
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July 5, 2005
n Medicaid Lax at Combating Fraud
n Grassley Warns PhRMA
n Caremark's Blood Money
n Bullet Proof Vests Which Weren't
n Homeland Security Fraud
n Cornell U. to Pay $4.3 Million
n Americhoice to pay $1.6 million
June 9, 2005
n PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pay $41 Million
n General Dynamics Sued for Valves In Nuclear Subs
n Medco Terrified of Jim Sheehan
n Federal Probe of Orbital Sciences
n Quest Diagnostics: A Fraud Feasor With a Track Record
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May 3, 2005
n Drug Dealer Economics at Merck
n The Litigation Line at Caremark
n SAIC Settles Air Force Case
n Physician Whistleblowers
n NYC False Claims Act Agreement
n Obvious Management Problems
April 5, 2005
n First Iraq Civil Fraud Case
n Gets Green Light from DoJ
n Quick, Hide All the Assets
n The Seeds of Fraud
n The Harvest of Fraud
n Tricky Knees & Doctor Kickbacks
n Fox in the Chicken House?
March17, 2005
n Sen. Grassley Seeks True Numbers from DoJ Fraud Fighters
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March 8, 2005
n Texas Team Fights Fraud
n Florida Sues Tenet for $1 Billion
n Defective Mice Nullify Research
n More Troubles for Medco
n Is Bloomberg Confused by Staff?
n HealthEssentials Bankruptcy
March 1, 2005
n Northrop to Pay $62 Million
n Grassley and Gonzales on CPA in Iraq
n Tenet Case To Be Retried
n Burying the Story?
n Forbes on the False Claims Act
n Friends of TAF Education Fund
January 5, 2005
n Kindred Healthcare FCA
n HealthSouth Nailed for Systematic Medicare Fraud
n CMS Ignored Wheelchair Fraud
n The Color of Kickbacks
n "Empty Pocket" Fraud Feasors
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December 6, 2004
n TAF Report: $2.4 Billion is Tip of Drug Fraud Iceberg
n Gambro to Pay $350 Million
n Medco Allegedly Offered $200 Million Kickback
n Hospital Was Overpaid $280 M
n TAP to Pay $150 M More
n $2.2 M Loma Linda PATH Fraud
n Rebate Records Protection
n PolyMedica Settles for $35 M
November 9, 2004
n Washington State Ignored Fraud Reports
n Tenet Starts Trial and Hides Losses
n Medco on Legal Losing Streak
n Dialysis Clinics Under Investigation
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