False Claims Act fraud

Transportation Infrastructure Fraud Whistleblowing

By Charlie Goetsch on December 27, 2021

By now most rail industry union reps and attorneys know there are federal statutes protecting railroad and mass transit employees from whistleblower retaliation. But there is another special federal law that allows such workers to reap multimillion dollar bounties.

The name of that statute is the False Claims Act (FCA). The purpose of the False…

An $8 Million Whistleblower Settlement

By Charlie Goetsch on May 17, 2017

Posted in False Claims Act fraud

I am pleased to announce a settlement totaling over $8 million dollars in a case brought by two whistleblower retaliation clients. Well may you ask: “Wait a minute, how do you leverage two individual employee whistleblower retaliation claims into a more than $8 million dollar settlement?” And the answer is: “Through the alchemy of the

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Amtrak Hit With $900,000 Whistleblower Award

By Charlie Goetsch on January 19, 2017

Posted in False Claims Act fraud

Amtrak’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is supposed to investigate and remedy retaliation against employees who blow the whistle on contractor fraud or safety hazards. But in a ruling that raises serious questions about Amtrak’s commitment to whistle blower protection, OSHA has found Amtrak terminated one of its own OIG Supervisors for raising concerns about

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