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Doping and How we Play the Game

Now that Lance Armstrong has admitted that he doped, fans across the globe must be wondering what was he thinking?  Perhaps he surmised that breaking anti-doping rules is just a part of the game....

It shouldn’t be about the bounty

Whistleblowers have bagged US federal authorities a pile of recovered cash this year – and themselves some big reward money.  But Reuben Guttman’s hero is a man who received not a penny of bounty...

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

By Reuben Marvin Miller, the one-time Steelworkers Union economist and the man behind the modern baseball player's union -- and perhaps indirectly all North American professional athletes’ union...

What it means to be a whistleblower

Individuals blowing the whistle can receive millions of dollars for their information but is this the motivation? 2012 can be looked upon as the year of the whistleblower as the US government wa...

Doing the right thing

Are global corporations under just a moral obligation rather than a legal duty to behave responsibly around the world?  See Reuben Guttman’s October 5, 2012 blog in The European Lawyer. DUBLIN –...

Professional melting pot

DUBLIN -- At the old Jameson Distillery, lawyers from across the globe danced into the night listening to a band from Long Island pumping out the music of the Irish rockers U2. The International...

Puckering Up

“Whether to blow or not to blow – that intriguing issue triggered heated debate at a session on criminal fraud and the global economic recession at this week’s International Bar Association annua...

“Backing Barack”

The US President wins some heavyweight economic support as Reuben Guttman sees the curtain rise on the International Bar Association’s annual gathering in Dublin, Ireland.  See Reuben Guttman’s O...

About the Abbott Settlement

By Reuben Guttman and Traci Buschner We were proud to have represented the lead whistleblower in Abbott's 1.6 billion dollar settlement with the government which resolved claims involving t...

The Schindler Decision: Now It’s Congress’ Turn

With the heightened pleading standard established by the Supreme Court in Twombly and Iqbal, it must follow that Plaintiffs are entitled to some accommodation in the manner and methods used to mu...

Medicare Decides It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief

With Medicare fraud costing the federal government an estimated $60 billion a year, it makes perfect sense that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has tapped aerospace innovator North...

FIRST PERSON: Don’t Muzzle the Whistleblowers

RIPPING OFF THE U.S. government has reached epidemic proportions. The Department of Justice estimates that fraud costs the Medicare system alone between $30-$60 billion annually. But instead of f...

Changes to the False Claims Act in Senate Bill 386

Introduction Under new legislation, the federal False Claims Act (FCA),[1] will take an even more prominent role in protecting from fraud the increase of federal spending to meet the nation's fi...
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