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For many years, Michael Sullivan of our firm and his colleague Jim Breen have organized the “Whistleblower Law Symposium.” It has consistently received high marks from participants. 
This year’s Symposium will be available either in-person or online on Wednesday, March 13, starting at 815 am EDT.  It offers 7.5 CLE hours, including 1 Ethics

After reporting on the SEC’s investigation and findings of 20 years of “misstatements” by the LDS Church and Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc., the Wall Street Journal‘s Jonathan Weil again reports on facts revealed by our SEC and IRS whistleblower submissions on behalf of our client, David Nielsen.  Mr. Nielsen exposed violations of law

Update: On a date to be determined, top government officials in the “whistleblower” arena and leading lawyers from across the country will once again convene for the “Whistleblower Law Symposium.”   In this program that we have organized since 2009, we are planning a streaming option so our colleagues across the globe can join those who

In this week of new bank bailouts (following Silicon Valley Bank’s), a bipartisan group of five Senators has urged common sense improvements to the SEC Whistleblower laws.  These Senators emphasize the “crucial role of whistleblowers” in protecting both investors and taxpayer funds.

COVID-19 has required unprecedented government spending through the CARES Act and other measures.  That spending creates countless opportunities for theft of funds desperately needed to fight the coronavirus.
The virus has made the nation’s major “whistleblower” law–the federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) and similar state False Claims Acts –even more essential. Both the federal and

As the anxious public yearns for vaccines, treatments, and protections from the virus, the SEC has warned of a “substantial potential for fraud relating to COVID-19. The SEC’s enforcement actions against 23 companies are just the start, as more fraud will undoubtedly be uncovered.
Whistleblowers are critical to the SEC’s efforts to stop COVID-19 fraud. 

Through a $465 million settlement, Finch McCranie’s Michael A. Sullivan and James J. Breen of the Breen Law Firm successfully represented a whistleblower whose qui tam case under the False Claims Act helped return hundreds of millions to the United States and various states for Medicaid rebates underpaid on new EpiPen products introduced in 2009.

Today the Department of Justice announced the largest settlement in its history with a skilled nursing facility chain–a qui tam whistleblower case under the False Claims Act that our firm and our co-counsel Mark Simpson worked side-by-side with DOJ to prepare for trial.
We applaud the exceptional work of DOJ’s attorneys, as well the outstanding