Coronavirus False Claims Task Force Urged at Justice Department (1)

A whistleblower attorney and advocate is calling on Attorney General William Barr to warn health-care providers against using the new coronavirus to pad their pockets.

Stephen Kohn, founding partner of Kohn Kohn & Colapinto LLP who chairs the National Whistleblower Center’s board of directors, asked Barr in a letter Monday to create a task force at the Justice Department to monitor and investigate False Claims Act allegations related to the Covid-19 outbreak.

“There is a group of people who will profit from disasters illegally and they’re despicable, but they’re out there,” Kohn told Bloomberg Law.

Kohn said in the letter ...