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	<title>Whistleblower Central</title>
	
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		<title>Does ABC story on McAllen, TX home health scam bar whistleblower claims?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Size, they say, matters in Texas.  Based on a recent undercover story alleging Texas-sized Medicare fraud in home health care, ABC News agrees. One remarkable aspect of the drama (video below) is the apparent lack of, well, drama.  It&#8217;s all in a day&#8217;s work, business as usual in McAllen, Texas. Media investigative reports offer good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC double-counting enforcement stats? Say it ain’t so!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Full disclosure is an SEC article of faith. Right?  The agency that boldly wields Rule 10b-5 and Rule 12b-20 &#8212; &#8220;don&#8217;t omit material facts,&#8221; &#8220;don&#8217;t employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud,&#8221; &#8220;don&#8217;t be evil,&#8221; (whoops! how&#8217;d that get in here?!) &#8212; must be filled with true believers.  Reality?  Apparently, not so much. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington legislature passes Medicaid False Claims Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans Schulzke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[False Claims Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, Washington!  The Washington State legislature has just sent a bill (SB 5978) to Governor Gregoire&#8217;s desk amending the State&#8217;s Fraudulent Practices Act, RCW 74.09.10, to enlist private whistleblowers in the State&#8217;s efforts to save taxpayer dollars.  SB 5978 &#8212; though confined to Medicaid fraud only &#8212; is modeled after the Federal FCA which encompasses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to the False Claims Act!</title>
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		<comments>http://whistleblowercentral.com/2012/03/02/happy-birthday-to-the-false-claims-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The False Claims Act known as &#8220;Lincoln&#8217;s Law&#8221; was signed 149 years ago today by then President Abraham &#8220;Honest Abe&#8221; Lincoln.  Since its signing, the law has saved U.S. taxpayers many billions of dollars, $30 billion in civil recoveries* since 1986 alone.]]></description>
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		<title>Memo to Whistleblowers: Ignore Michael Douglas</title>
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		<comments>http://whistleblowercentral.com/2012/03/02/memo-to-whistleblowers-ignore-michael-douglas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[False Claims Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who should a whistleblower see first: an attorney or the FBI?  Michael Douglas says the FBI.  Why would the FBI hire Douglas &#8212; who is not an attorney &#8212; to broadcast legal advice to whistleblowers?   Maybe because Douglas did such a great job convincing cinema audiences that he was Gordon Gekko.  Whatever their motives, Douglas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCAOB penalizes E&amp;Y, partners over bad Medicis revenue numbers</title>
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		<comments>http://whistleblowercentral.com/2012/02/13/pcaob-penalizes-ey-partners-over-bad-medicis-revenue-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Securities Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lapdogs sometimes do bite.  (See important update below.)  In a strangely-worded February 8, 2012 disciplinary order, the PCAOB fined mega audit firm Ernst &#38; Young (E&#38;Y) $2 million while disbarring, censuring and/or imposing fines against four E&#38;Y audit partners individually.  The key finding?  E&#38;Y and its partners failed to properly evaluate the Dec. 31, 2005, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penn State whistleblower lessons: Beware of inhouse counsel!</title>
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		<comments>http://whistleblowercentral.com/2012/02/03/penn-state-whistleblower-lessons-beware-of-inhouse-counsel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Penn State sex abuse story grows more complicated by the day.*  The latest &#8212; involving the reportedly confused relationship between Penn State officers Tim Curley, Gary Schultz and former inhouse counsel Cynthia Baldwin &#8212; appeared yesterday at Pennlive.com and today at Law.com: When Tim Curley and Gary Schultz testified in the Jerry Sandusky child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Rakoff &amp; the SEC: What a difference a judge makes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The law is the law, right?  So how much impact can a judge have on a whistleblower case?  Way more than most people imagine. Prospective whistleblowers &#8212; many of whom optimistically view &#8220;blind justice&#8221; in even-handed, rule-bound terms &#8212; tend to be unaware that judges can move a case as much as the law itself.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Mitt Romney’s effective tax rate really 44.75%?</title>
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		<comments>http://whistleblowercentral.com/2012/01/30/is-mitt-romneys-real-effective-tax-rate-44-75/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS whistleblower]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much do private equity players really pay in income taxes?  Mitt Romney &#8212; the nation&#8217;s best-known PE man &#8212; says he pays about 15%.  While Romney&#8217;s 2010 (final) and 2011 (&#8220;in process&#8221;) tax returns seem to confirm his view, the reality (explained below) is more complicated. John Berlau and Trey Kovacs suggest in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Mormons really “forced” to pay tithing?</title>
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		<comments>http://whistleblowercentral.com/2012/01/25/are-mormons-really-forced-to-pay-tithing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schulzke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS whistleblower]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a word, no.  But CNN Religion Editor Dan Gilgoff is not one to let a simple &#8220;no&#8221; spike a profitable political story.  Gilgoff&#8217;s 4:50 p.m. Tuesday piece, &#8220;Romney tax returns shine light on Mormon tithing,&#8221; which attracted 1,067 comments by 6:38 a.m. Wednesday, misleads more than informs.  Among other misstatements by Gilgoff is the [...]]]></description>
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