Whistleblowers Receive $350 Million in FY 2010

McInnis Lectures At American Bar Assn Institute

Whistleblower Recoveries Now Top $24 Billion

"The Big Picture"; 20 Years of Department of Justice Fraud Statistics

Record Fraud Recoveries Under the False Claims Act

Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. To Chair DC Qui Tam Whistleblower Bar Panel

Research Hospitals In The Compliance Hot Seat - From Health Care Insider

Whistleblowers Receive More Than $170 Million in FY 2005

2006 False Claims Recoveries Could Set A Record

Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. Looks at a U.S. Supreme Court Decision

Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. Testifies Before New York City Council Committee

Continuing Legal Education ("CLE") Lecture by Timothy J. McInnis, Esq.

$319 Million in FY 2003 Whistleblower Awards

Successful Cases From McInnis Law

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Whistleblowers Receive $350 Million in FY 2010

Qui Tam Whistleblowers Rewarded With $350 Million
Of $2.3 Billion In FY 2010 Federal False Claims Act Recoveries;
More Than $18 Billion Has Been Returned To Federal
Taxpayers Since 1986 False Claims Law Revisions, From
Which Qui Tam Whistleblowers Received Nearly $3 Billion,
Qui Tam Attorney Timothy J. McInnis Announced

WASHINGTON (November 2010)—Qui Tam whistleblowers have received nearly $3 billion in rewards for helping the federal government recover more than $18 billion in false claims cases since 1986 revisions to the federal law added protections and more incentives for whistleblowers who step forward and, "Do the right thing," Qui Tam attorney Timothy J. McInnis announced.

The U.S. Department of Justice reported total FY2010 Qui Tam-assisted recoveries of $2.3 billion. Whistleblowers who brought those cases were rewarded with $385 million of the proceeds, according to a news release quoting Assistant Attorney General Tony West, who heads the Department's Civil Division.

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Qui Tam Attorney Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. Lectures
At American Bar Association False Claims Act Institute

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In June 2010, NYC-based whistleblower attorney Timothy J. McInnis addressed government representatives, defense lawyers, relators' counsel, and other attendees at the American Bar Association's 8th Annual National Institute on Civil False Claims Act and Qui Tam Enforcement.

The American Bar Association's Institute brought together experts from all areas—the U.S. Department of Justice, state Attorneys General offices, other federal agencies, and leading defense and plaintiff firms—to discuss the ever-growing area of False Claims Act litigation and enforcement, particularly in light of recent amendments to the statute that make it even more powerful. The specific topic of attorney McInnis' presentation was "Settlement of An FCA Healthcare Case."

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Whistleblowers Help Add $2 Billion in Civil Fraud
Settlements and Judgments in Fiscal Year 2009
Qui Tam Attorney Timothy J. McInnis Announces

WASHINGTON — Whistleblowers in Fiscal Year 2009 ("FY2009") helped add $2 billion in civil fraud settlements and judgments to more than $24 billion recovered since the False Claims Act was amended in 1986 to add greater incentives and protections for whistleblowers, qui tam attorney Timothy J. McInnis announced.

The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division, in a November 2009 news release, pegged total recoveries for FY2009 at $2.4 billion, calling it the second largest recovery year in federal False Claims Act history.

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"The Big Picture"
20 Years of Department of Justice Fraud Statistics

From The False Claims and Qui Tam Quarterly Review , the nation’s premier legal journal devoted solely to the False Claims Act and qui tam litigation. Presented with permission from Quarterly Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund (TAFEF), a nonprofit, public interest, membership organization dedicated to combating fraud against the Federal Government through the promotion and use of the Federal False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions. Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. is a longtime Taxpayers Against Fraud member.

"The Big Picture" (PDF)

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Record Fraud Recoveries Under the False Claims Act;
20-Year Old Law One of Nation's Most Effective

Note: Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. is a long-time member of Taxpayers Against Fraud ("TAF"), a member of the DC-based organization's advisory board, and served as a panel chairman at TAF's last three annual meetings.

WASHINGTON — Fiscal Year 2006 will be a record year for False Claims Act ("FCA") recoveries, says Taxpayers Against Fraud, which estimates total settlements and judgments will top $3.142 billion. This figure does not include more than $200 million in settlements which have been announced by companies but not yet green-lighted by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Notes Jim Moorman, president of Taxpayers Against Fraud, "We have seen extraordinary fraud settlements this year. The whistleblowers, investigators, and private and Department of Justice attorneys that have worked on these cases deserve a huge thank you from the American people."

Moorman notes that 80 percent of all successfully resolved FCA cases are brought to the government by whistleblowers, and while the amount of money being recovered is going up, the actual number of cases being settled has not. This is because the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division has not been given the resources to handle its False Claims Act case load. "The folks at DoJ are working very hard, but they need more resources from Congress and the Administration."

The revived False Claims Act is 20 years old this year, and remains the most important tool the Government has to fight fraud against U.S. taxpayers. The False Claims Act provides for triple damages plus statutory fines of up to $11,000 per false claims, with whistleblowers that bring evidence of fraud to the Government are eligible for awards of 15 to 30 percent of the total amount recovered under the Act. DoJ's policy is to extract double damages when it settles.

That's the theory. In reality, says Moorman, the Government is as likely to settle fraud cases for single damages, or less, than double damages. "If we look at the big fraud cases settled this year, it appears Tenet Healthcare stole $1.9 billion but only had to pay back $900 million; that St. Barnabas Hospitals had to pay back $265 million, but stole more than twice that amount; that Mario Gabelli and associates may have pocketed over $200 million from their scam, but they only had to pay back $130 million.

"The goal of the False Claims Act is to change the way companies do business, but if that's going to occur, the Government needs to devote more resources to False Claims Act enforcement so more cases can be pursued. DoJ is doing all it can with the resources it now has, but Congress and the Administration have not provided what is needed to clear the docket."

Moorman notes that in the health care arena, the False Claims Act is returning more than $15 back to the American people for every dollar invested in investigations and prosecutions.

"If False Claims Act enforcement were run like a business, the Government would expand its operations dramatically. Instead, while we know we are losing billions of dollars a year to fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, the war in Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina aid, we devote a ridiculously small amount of resources to False Claims Act prosecutions and enforcement. For example, the Civil Division's Fraud Team only got $23 million in FY 2006, and all of the U.S. Attorney's office combined got less than $57 million for FCA cases. This is amazingly little when compared with the magnificent $3 billion recovered under the False Claims Act this year. Think what could be done if enforcement resources were doubled or tripled."

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Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. To Chair Panel
At Taxpayer's Against Fraud's Annual Meeting
In Washington, D.C., In September 2006

WASHINGTON — Whistleblower Attorney Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. will head a panel discussion when the nation's foremost legal association for whistleblower qui tam attorneys meets here in September. The Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund Conference: Government Perspectives on the False Claims Act will bring some of the leading False Claims Act practitioners together in Washington, D.C.

McInnis' panel entitled, False Claims Act Qui Tam Practice: Business Concerns & Considerations will be held in a breakout session for attorneys on Monday September 11, 2006.

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Research Hospitals
In The Compliance Hot Seat

May 23, 2006

By Richard Merli
Managing Editor, Health Care Insider

Major hospitals have become the target of federal investigators over the failure to address the misuse and misappropriation of medical research funds from the government.

The problem -- which industry observers say is endemic in research -- has caused hospitals to overhaul their compliance policies and add oversight. But it has also created more paperwork and administrative duties for researchers, some of whom are much-sought-after superstars who will grouse at the additional burden.

The stakes for proper compliance are enormous. Not only does a research institution face criminal prosecution and loss of reputation in such cases, but a scandal-tainted hospital is much less likely to get federal funding in the future. Hospitals have only recently started implementing robust compliance programs and accounting controls.

Read this complete article
from the KPMG Health Care Insider

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Whistleblowers Received $170 Million
In Fiscal 2005; More Than $1 Billion
Recovered By Federal Government,
Attorney Timothy J. McInnis Reports

NEW YORK CITY - Individuals and businesses who blew the whistle on contract, program and other schemes to defraud the federal Government were awarded nearly $170 million in fiscal 2005, according to New York City Attorney Timothy J. McInnis, Esq., whose national legal practice concentrates on representing whistleblowers by filing fraud-against-government cases under Qui Tam provisions of the False Claims Act.

Some $1.1 billion was recovered by the Government via whistleblower claims in the fiscal year that ended in September 2005, according to U.S. Department of Justice statistics, and 2006 is shaping up to be even bigger, said McInnis, a former federal prosecutor who handles whistleblower-revealed fraud in all types of Government programs and purchasing.

The False Claims Act, which dates back to the Civil War, was substantially strengthened in 1986 to better reward and protect whistleblowers who bring knowledge of fraud to the Government via attorneys like McInnis.
Individuals and entities who defraud the Government by claiming federal funds to which they know they aren't entitled are liable for three times the Government's loss and penalties up to $11,000 for each false claim, McInnis explained.

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Note: Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. is a long-time member of Taxpayers Against Fraud, sits on the Washington, D.C.-based organization's six-person TAF Advisory Committee, and lead a panel discussion at its 2005 annual meeting.

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Timothy J. McInnis, Esq.
Looks At A Major Supreme Court Decision

Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. United States ex rel. Stevens, No. 98-1828

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Timothy J. McInnis, Esq. testifies as both a private attorney concentrating on Qui Tam and on behalf of the DC-based organization Taxpayers Against Fraud ("TAF"), the nonprofit national organization that supports False Claims Act whistleblowers and their attorneys. McInnis is a member of the Board of Advisors of TAF.

Whistleblowers Receive $319 Million for "Doing The Right Thing." McInnis Law looks at False Claims Act Recoveries in Fiscal Year 2003, based on the most recent U.S. Department of Justice news release.

$319 Million Paid to Whistleblowers

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Successful Cases
from McInnis Law

Applied Consulting, Inc.
Applied CaseManagement, Inc.

Cabrini Medical Center

Catskill Regional Medical Center

Center for Pain Management

Columbia University

M.L. Energia, Inc.
and Moshe Lavid, Ph.d.

McTish, Kunkle & Associates

Montefiore Medical Center

The Mount Vernon Hospital

New York City Landlords

Victory Memorial Hospital