Question of the Week -- Is the weekend purge in Saudi Arabia actually a victory for anti-corruption efforts?
Posted 11/8/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The global community is reeling from a weekend full of arrests in Saudi Arabia. Prominent princes and ministers, including billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, were charged with a variety of bribery and money laundering charges and are currently under arrest in the Ritz-Carleton. Prince Alwaleed has publicly sparred with President Trump in the past and thus far the...
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Charges were unsealed yesterday against three former Rolls-Royce employees and two other individual for their alleged participation in a scheme to bribe foreign officials to benefit a U.S.-based Rolls-Royce subsidiary, including to win work on a new gas pipeline.
According to the unsealed indictment, the three Rolls-Royce employees along with an employee at a consulting firm...
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Major Investors Sue Outcome Health, Alleging Firm Committed Fraud to Secure $487.5M Investment — Investors in Outcome Health, including units of Goldman Sachs and Google, filed suit against the Chicago-based pharmaceutical advertising startup, alleging it committed fraud to secure nearly $500 million in funding. 
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According to an 
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More Wells Fargo whistleblowers allege retaliation -- The allegations relate to "when the bank forced thousands of customers into car insurance they didn't need and when it wrongly charged homebuyers to lock in mortgage rates." 
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Ex-Akin Gump Partner to Plead Guilty to Trying to Sell Whistleblower Cases – A former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partner has agreed to plead guilty after being arrested wearing a wig as a disguise while trying to sell a copy of a sealed whistleblower lawsuit against a California company for $310,000. Jeffrey Wertkin, a former U.S. Justice Department trial attorney who...
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Two former CIA employees turned-whistleblowers 
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US and Illinois intervene in FCA case against youth counseling center—Laynie Foundation, and its owners, allegedly violated the FCA by billing for more mental health services than were provided, billing Medicaid for non-reimbursable services such as staff training, and not meeting state requirements regarding clinical supervision. This alleged fraud was brought to light by a...
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Brock Long, the head of FEMA, recently testified to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs that his agency was not aware of Whitefish Energy’s $300 million no-bid contract to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electrical grid until after it was awarded. Long told committee members, “there’s no lawyer inside FEMA that would have ever agreed to the language...