The Department of Justice announced that this week that a defense contractor has settled a False Claims Act case involving illegal kickbacks for $13.67 million. The contractor, Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (“KBR”), was accused of steering subcontracts to two Kuwaiti companies in exchange for payments to KBR employees. In 2001, the U.S. Government […]
Page Pate explains how to file a successful whistleblower claim under the False Claims Act against a company that is defrauding the federal government Our whistleblower attorneys have decades of experience helping people file whistleblower claims and report fraud against the federal government under the False Claims Act. We have helped whistleblowers recover millions of […]
It certainly can be. Any type of “remuneration” (or payment) to a Medicare patient can be an illegal kickback when it violates the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Normally, people think of kickbacks as involving money or gifts. But kickbacks can include just about anything of value that induces a Medicare beneficiary to use a company that […]
Pate, Johnson & Church has successfully represented whistleblowers for many years, resulting in a number of very large settlements on behalf of their whistleblower clients. In this case, our client worked for GardaWorld Federal Service, LLC as a unit support coordinator within the emergency response team in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the complaint our firmed filed […]
Attorney Page Pate Discusses Whistleblower Complaint Against GardaWorld Federal Services Justin Fahn, a security supervisor at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, filed a whistleblower lawsuit claiming that his employer, a Canadian based private defense contractor named GardaWorld Federal Services, charged the United States government millions of dollars for security guards and …