Whistleblowers Beware
By Reuben Guttman For fraudsters, government expenditures are a license to steal. One thing fraudsters know is that with trillions of dollars in expenditures from federal and state governments...
COVID-19 Will Lead to New False Claims Cases
The COVID-19 virus is inspiring new private-public relationships that will lead to a new generation of whistleblower cases under the Federal False Claims Act. Government is injecting billions...
False Claims Act: Offense and Defense
Description: Each year private citizen suits under the False Claims Act have returned billions of dollars to Federal and State treasuries. These suits leverage the government’s compliance en...
Sweeping Stimulus Law Is Golden Opportunity for Scam Artists
The sweeping $2 trillion economic stimulus package signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27 will undoubtedly help millions of people in need, but it is also expected to attract its s...
Shadowboxer: Dan Guttman, a lifetime investigating the government’s “shadow workforce” of contractors
Federal procurement is not a subject that makes for compelling television, but procurement scandals can be good drama, which is why on Nov. 30, 1980, the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes air...
Mass Tort Deals: Must-Read Interviews for a Must-Read Book
In 1965, Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed, an exposé on automobile safety, and since its publication, consumer faith in product safety has never been the same. The early efforts...
Corporate Crime Reporter: Reuben Guttman on the Failure of Corporate Compliance
Corporate Crime Reporter, Volume 34, Number 3, Monday, January 20, 2020 REUBEN GUTTMAN ON THE FAILURE OF CORPORATE COMPLIANCE Internal corporate compliance programs do nothing to address pe...
Reuben Guttman Represents Whistleblowers in $12.3 Million Settlement
Congratulations are in order for NITA faculty member and author Reuben Guttman, who successfully represented whistleblowers and the federal government in a False Claims Act filing against a...
NY Healthcare Network Pays $12.3 Mill. To Settle Claims Alleging False Medicare Billing
As a result of a lawsuit brought under the Federal False Claims Act by three whistleblowers, one of the New York area's largest healthcare providers – Northwell Health, Inc. whose subsi...
On the Rule of Law: The Times They are a-Changing and So Should Trial Advocacy Training
By Reuben A. Guttman | As a lawyer, I grew up in dusty warehouses, the repositories for massive document reviews. I tore through boxes, often disappointed to find reams of computer runs, no d...
Interview with Whistleblower Attorney Reuben A. Guttman on Using Complex False Claims Act Litigation to Fight Government Program Fraud
Nationally recognized and deeply respected by his peers for his work with the False Claims Act and other whistleblower litigation, his career is littered with landmark high impact cases. A lea...
Whistleblower lawyers to Grassley: Make Barr commit to False Claims cases
(Reuters) - A coalition of academics, public interest groups and lawyers who represent whistleblowers sent a letter Thursday to outgoing U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, c...
Optimizing regulatory compliance enforcement in a global economy
AJC.com | By Paul Zwier and Reuben Guttman | With regional offices of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissi...
The Whistleblowers in the White House
I practice law. My clients have been called sneaks and snitches. I just call them “whistleblowers.” If they sue a culprit who has defrauded the government under the False Claims Act against, I mi...
Effective Compliance Means Imposing Individual Liability
By Reuben A Guttman | Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said it in a memo dated September 9, 2015, and her successor, Rod Rosenstein, said it in remarks dated October 6, 2017: corporations a...
Mass. Hospital Double-Booked Surgeries, Whistleblower Says
By Dani Kass Law360, New York (October 20, 2017, 7:50 PM EDT) -- A former Massachusetts General Hospital anesthesiologist on Thursday told a federal judge that she's sufficiently shown in her qu...
Federal prosecutors launch investigation of prominent surgeon who double-booked operations
Boston Globe | Jonathan Saltzman | Federal prosecutors are investigating the billing practices of one of the nation’s highest-paid surgeons after a Spotlight Team report detailed that Dr. Dav...
Litigation in the age of the Internet
Top trial lawyer Reuben Guttman considers the use of emails and social media postings as evidence and how it is changing the nature, and possibly the outcome, of cases. On the morning of 18 Dece...
Celgene to Pay $280 Million to Settle Fraud Suit Over Cancer Drugs
The pharmaceutical company Celgene has agreed to pay $280 million to settle claims that it marketed the cancer drugs Thalomid and Revlimid for unapproved uses, the company said on Tuesday. Under...
Celgene to Pay $280 Million to Settle Fraud Suit Over Cancer Drugs
New York Times | By Katie Thomas | The pharmaceutical company Celgene has agreed to pay $280 million to settle claims that it marketed the cancer drugs Thalomid and Revlimid for unapproved use...
Whistle-blower files suit over alleged double-booked surgeries
By Jonathan Saltzman and Todd Wallack The Boston Globe JUNE 07, 2017 Orthopedic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital repeatedly kept patients waiting under anesthesia longer — sometimes mo...
Democracy Misconceived
By William Nettles and Reuben Guttman There is a misconception among many that democracy and freedom are synonymous and that freedom, in turn, equates to the right to do and say anything. Th...
Marijuana, Immigration And Private Prisons
On August 18, 2016, then Deputy Attorney General, Sally Yates, issued a memorandum directing the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to begin to reduce – with an eye toward eliminating – the use of private p...
Book: United States ex rel. Rodriguez v. Hughes, et al., Relators Version
by Paul J. Zwier, Reuben Guttman, Matthew J. McCoyd, Alexander G. Barney The three case files of United States ex rel. Rodriguez v. Hughes, et al.… explore the suit brought by Juan Rodriguez, a...