The incoming Biden administration is giving serious consideration to selecting Jenny Yang, a former EEOC chair, to head the Labor Department’s contractor compliance agency, according to two sources familiar with internal personnel discussions.
The former medical director of a
Mortgage Investors Corp. must again face whistleblowers’ False Claims Act suit alleging the company falsely certified to the VA that it only charged permissible fees under a veterans mortgage loan program, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday.
The director of the Labor Department’s contractor compliance agency emphasized that combating discrimination against workers with disabilities requires a greater commitment, as he prepared to close his tenure in similar fashion to how it began.
The U.S. Justice Department recovered over $2.2 billion from False Claims Act cases in 2020, $1.8 billion of which involved health care industry cases.
A former chief financial officer for Northern Arizona Healthcare Corp. adequately alleged that the company’s overpayment to acquire a surgery and rehabilitation services center constituted a kickback in violation of the False Claims Act, a federal court said.
The American Civil Liberties Union‘s quest for records from a Federal Bureau of Investigation unit could shed light on law enforcement’s ability to work around a clash with tech companies over encryption.
