TNK-BP Sues Executive | Business | The Moscow Times

TNK-BP Sues Executive | Business | The Moscow Times

"TNK-BP has filed a lawsuit with an Arkansas court to freeze the U.S. assets of Igor Lazurenko, a former executive of the company, Kommersant reported Tuesday, citing a TNK-BP spokesman."

"The lawsuit was filed to comply with an injunction of the High Court of Justice, the spokesman said. He added that the British court was hearing another lawsuit filed by TNK-BP against Lazurenko.
TNK-BP accused Lazurenko of receiving bribes worth $13 million for awarding oil shipping contracts to transportation companies N-Trans and Sovfrakht."

"For his part, Lazurenko has accused TNK-BP and German Khan, one of its co-owners, of corruption, Bloomberg reported. Lazurenko headed TNK-BP's logistics department and was fired in April."

International Whistleblower Reward Laws Encourage International Whistleblowers to Expose Government Corruption, Oil Company Bribes to Public Officials, Illegal Kickbacks from Energy Companies, Illicit Payments to Government Officials, and other Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by International Oil Company Employee Whistleblower Reward Lawyer, International Oil Company Bribe Whistleblower Reward Lawyer, & Energy Company Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Whistleblower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

New International Whistleblower Reward Laws offer large potential rewards or bounties to international oil company employee whistleblowers, foreign government official whistleblowers, and other international whistleblowers that blow the whistle on international oil company contract bribes, international accounting fraud, international energy company fraud, and international oil lease bribes.  If you have evidence of oil company government bribes, public official illegal kickbacks for oil extraction contracts, or other government official corruption for mineral extraction, please feel free to contact International Oil Company Bribe Whistle Blower Lawyer and International Energy Company Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violation Whistleblower Lawyer, Jason S. Coomer or go to the following web pages:  Russia Whistleblowers, Пожалуйста, нажмите здесь для русскихInternational Extraction & Mining Contract WhistleblowersandOil Industry Employee Whistleblowers.

Drug Diversion Fraud Lawsuits: USDOJ: South Carolina Pharmaceutical Distribution Company Pleads Guilty in Multi-Million Dollar Scheme to Purchase and Sell Drugs in the Grey Market

Drug Diversion Fraud Can Be The Basis of Federal False Claims Act and Qui Tam Whistle Blower Lawsuits by Drug Diversion Fraud Whistle Blower Lawyer, Adulterated Drug Whistle Blower Lawyer, and Drug Diversion Fraud Qui Tam Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Drug Diversion Fraud can the basis of a qui tam whistle blower lawsuit under the Federal False Claims Act resulting in large financial rewards for drug diversion fraud whistle blowers that properly blow the whistle on large scale prescription drug schemes that divert prescription drugs from lawful channels of drug wholesale distribution to illegal distribution channels at increased costs.  These prescription drugs schemes can include adulterated drug fraud, illegal drug kickbacks, or other pharmaceutical manufacturing fraud that create dangerous drugs and illegal use of prescription drugs.  For more information on drug diversion fraud, please feel free to contact Drug Whistle Blower Lawyer and Drug Diversion Qui Tam Lawyer Jason Coomer.

USDOJ: South Carolina Pharmaceutical Distribution Company Pleads Guilty in Multi-Million Dollar Scheme to Purchase and Sell Drugs in the Grey Market

The Department of Justice announced the guilty plea and sentencing of Easley, S.C.-based Altec Medical for engaging in a multi-million dollar prescription drug scheme.  Altec Medical pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Miami to one count of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and to commit federal offenses in connection with a drug-diversion scheme that lasted from 2007 to 2009.

 

In the sentencing, U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. ordered Altec to pay a $2 million fine and to forfeit $1 million. The judge also ordered the company to be on probation for one year.

 

In a criminal information filed with the court, the government charged that Altec paid its supplier and co-conspirator William D. Rodriguez, approximately $55 million for prescription drugs that it knew had been diverted from lawful channels of drug wholesale distribution.    “Drug Diversion” refers to various ways in which prescription drugs are removed from lawful channels of distribution and then reintroduced into the marketplace for sale to consumers. In drug diversion schemes, prescription drugs at issue are often stolen from warehouses or cargo trucks; torn from boxes of free samples, repackaged and resold; or bought from individual patients looking to make extra money.

Home Health Care Qui Tam Lawsuits: USDOJ: Tennessee-Based Home Health Care Provider & Related Entities Agree to Pay More Than $9 M to Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit by Texas Home Health Care Fraud Qui Tam Lawyer & Medicare Home Health Care Fraud Whistle Blower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

  Home Health Care Fraud and Medicare Fraud Is On The Rise: Home Health Care Provider Employees and Retirement Community Employees Can Receive Large Rewards For Properly Exposing Medicare Fraud Schemes Including Billing for Services Not Provided, Double Billing, and Illegal Kickbacks by Texas Home Health Care Fraud Qui Tam Lawyer & Medicare Home Health Care Fraud Whistle Blower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Home health fraud and Medicare fraud is on the rise as some health care providers and retirement communities are using Medicare billing fraud and Medicare kickback schemes to bill Medicare for services that are not provided and taking advantage of Seniors and taxpayers.  These fraudulent home health care service schemes can be difficult to detect and it often will take a home health care service employee or retirement center employee to blow the whistle on the home health care Medicare fraud scheme or home health care Medicaid scheme.  

USDOJ: Tennessee-Based Home Health Care Provider & Related Entities Agree to Pay More Than $9 M to Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit

"James W. Carell, CareAll Management LLC (formerly known as Diversifi ed He alth Mana gement Inc.), C are All Inc., the James W. Car ell Family Trust, V IP Home Nursing and Reh abilitation Servi ces L LC, Professional Home He alth Care L LC, University Home H ealth, LLC and Elizabeth Vining (as representative of the Estate of Robert Vining) have agreed to pay $9.375 million to the federal government.   This payment is to resolve the lawsuit that the United States filed in 2009 alleging that they violated the False Claims Act, caused Medicare to pay out money through mistake of fact, and were unjustly enriched by falsely concealing the home health agencies’ relationship with their management company, the Justice Department announced today."  

"VIP, Professional and University now operate under the name CareAll.   James W. Carell and the related CareAll entities named above also agreed to be bound by the terms of a Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG)."  

"CareAll and its related entities are one of the largest home health providers in Tennessee.   This settlement resolves the United States’ lawsuit alleging that the CareAll entities fraudulently submitted eight cost reports for fiscal years 1999, 2000 and 2001 to support their Medicare billings.   The United States alleged that these cost reports were false because they knowingly hid the relationship between the management company and the home health agencies.   According to the complaint the United States filed in this case, the cost reports should have disclosed that the management company was related to the home health agencies, which would have lowered the Medicare reimbursement for the management company’s services.   During the relevant years, the United States alleged that James W. Carell owned the management company, and his friend Robert Vining – an attorney who lived in Missouri – served as the nominee or “sham” owner of the home health agencies."    

Home Health Care Fraud Qui Tam Lawsuits, Retirement Community Fraud Lawsuits, & Medicare Home Health Care Fraud Whistle Bblower Lawsuits

The United States Department of Justice and Texas Home Health Care Fraud Lawyer, Jason S. Coomer, are encouraging home health care employees and other whistle blowers with evidence of systematic Home Health Care Medicare fraud or systematic Home Health Care Medicaid fraud to step up and blow the whistle on home health care fraud schemes.    For more information on a being a Medicare Home Health Care Fraud Whistle Blower or Medicaid Home Health Care Fraud Whistle Blower, please feel free to contact Home Health Care Fraud Whistle Blower Lawyer Jason Coomer via e-mail message or go to the following web page: Home Health Care Fraud Qui Tam Lawsuits, Retirement Community Fraud Lawsuits, & Medicare Home Health Care Fraud Whistle Bblower Lawsuits.

IRS Offshore Tax Fraud Lawsuits: Ex-UBS clients get year in prison in offshore tax dodge case by IRS Tax Whistleblower Lawyer and IRS Tax Avoidance Illegal Offshore Account Lawyer Jason Coomer

IRS Offshore Tax Fraud Is One OF the Targets of the IRS Tax Whistleblower Reward Program: The IRS Is Offering Large Rewards To Tax Fraud Whistleblowers That Help Expose An Estimated $3 Trillion in Illegal Offshore Accounts as Well as Several Other Tax-Avoidance Schemes by IRS Tax Whistleblower Lawyer and IRS Tax Avoidance Illegal Offshore Account Lawyer Jason Coomer

The economic incentives in the Tax Whistleblower Reward Program are designed to encourage insider tax fraud informants and tax fraud whistleblowers with knowledge and evidence of large tax violations and tax fraud schemes to step forward and report the massive tax fraud.  The IRS is hoping that there will be several tax fraud whistleblowers and tax fraud informants that will help them detect and collect on an estimated $3 Trillion in illegal offshore accounts as well as several other tax-avoidance schemes that have been perpetrated by billionaires and millionaires as well as large corporations.

Ex-UBS clients get year in prison in offshore tax dodge case

"Two former clients of UBS AG were sentenced on Monday to a year and a day in prison, matching what records show as the longest prison term ordered so far in a sprawling investigation of offshore tax avoidance involving the Swiss banking giant.  Sean and Nadia Roberts of Tehachapi, California, were also ordered to pay $3.2 million in restitution and fines, the U.S. Justice Department said. He is 77 years old and she is 64. The couple pleaded guilty in 2011 to filing a false income tax return. From 2004 to 2008, they failed to report interest income from millions held in offshore accounts, falsely deducted bank transfers and under-reported income, prosecutors said."

If you are aware of illegal offshore account tax fraud, underpayment of taxes, tax avoidance, or other IRS tax fraud and would like more information on this topic, please feel free to contact IRS Tax Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Coomer via e-mail message or go to the following web pages: IRS Tax Whistleblower Lawyer or Illegal Offshore Account Tax Fraud Lawyer.

Oil Company Accounting Fraud and USDOJ FFCA Press Release: Louis Dreyfus Energy Services Pays $4 Million to Resolve Allegations That It Violated the False Claims Act by Oil Company Accounting Fraud Lawyer

Oil Company Accounting Fraud Can Be the Basis of SEC Violations, Federal False Claims Act Lawsuits, Class Actions, Shareholder Actions, and other Oil Company Production Fraud Lawsuits by Oil Company Accounting Fraud Lawyer, Petroleum Accountant Whistleblower Bounty Lawyer, and Oil Company Accounting Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Oil Company Fraud including Oil Company Accounting Fraud, Oil Company Royalty Fraud, Oil Company Tax Fraud, Oil Company Working Interest Fraud, and Oil Company Production Fraud are forms of corporate fraud that can result in qui tam lawsuits, shareholder lawsuits, bounty actions, class actions, and several other types of fraud litigation.  Petroleum professionals including petroleum accountants, petroleum executives, and other oil company employees with original information of significant oil company accounting fraud, oil company royalty fraud, oil company tax fraud, oil company working interest fraud, and/or oil company production fraud by a large oil company may be able to collect a large reward through several whistleblower laws. The key to obtaining a large whistleblower award is to make sure that as the whistleblower you are the first to file with sufficient evidence of significant fraud.  

USDOJ: Louis Dreyfus Energy Services Pays $4 Million to Resolve Allegations That It Violated the False Claims Act

Louis Dreyfus Energy Services has paid the United States $4,084,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to pay money owed on natural gas acquired from the Department of the Interior, the Justice Department announced today.   Louis Dreyfus, which is based in Connecticut, is an energy company that is involved in merchandising, transportation, trading and storage of natural gas.

The settlement agreement resolves contentions by the United States that from December 2004 to March 2008, Louis Dreyfus Energy Services made false claims or misleading statements to the Department of the Interior involving contracts to buy natural gas produced from federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico.   Starting in 2004, Louis Dreyfus agreed to pay the Interior Department for natural gas based on a price associated with the delivery of the gas at a fixed point along a natural gas pipeline. After its contracts with the Interior Department were executed, the company requested and received a discount in the price it would pay the Interior Department for the natural gas obtained under the contracts.   The United States contends that this price discount applied only when there was a complete or near-complete constraint in the natural gas pipeline such that Louis Dreyfus was unable to transport natural gas along the pipeline.   However, the energy services company claimed and obtained the price discounts even on days when it was able to ship natural gas along the pipeline.   Thus, the United States contends that Louis Dreyfus was not entitled to the price discounts that it sought and received from the Department of the Interior.

If you are the original source with special knowledge of oil company fraud and are interested in learning more about a potential oil company whistleblower lawsuit, please feel free to contact Texas Oil Company Accounting Fraud Lawyer, Jason S. Coomer or go to the following web pages: Oil Company Accounting Fraud Lawsuits or International Oil Company False Reporting Lawsuits and International Oil Company Government Corruption Lawsuits.

Davis Bacon False Certification Whistleblower Lawsuits and Government Contractor Prevailing Wage Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits Encourage Whistleblowers to Expose DBRA Violations by Offering Large Rewards by Government Contractor Wage Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer and Davis Bacon False Certification Whistleblower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Government Contractors That Fail To Pay Prevailing Wages Can Be Violating the Davis Bacon Wage Laws: DBRA Violations Can Be The Basis of a Prevailing Wage Whistleblower Lawsuit by Davis Bacon False Certification Whistleblower Lawyer and Government Contractor Prevailing Wage Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

The Davis Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) requires all contractors and subcontractors performing work on federal or District of Columbia construction contracts or federally assisted contracts in excess of $2,000 to pay their laborers and mechanics not less than the prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits for corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on similar projects in the area. The prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits are determined by the Secretary of Labor for inclusion in covered contracts.

In addition to the Davis Bacon Act itself, Congress added Davis-Bacon prevailing wage provisions to approximately 60 laws—"related Acts"—under which federal agencies assist construction projects through grants, loans, loan guarantees, and insurance. (Examples of the related Acts are the Federal-Aid Highway Acts, the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.) Generally, the application of prevailing wage requirements to projects receiving federal assistance under any particular "related" Act depends on the provisions of that law. 

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has oversight responsibilities to assure coordination of administration and consistency of enforcement of the labor standards provisions of the Davis Bacon and Related Acts. Under this authority, DOL has issued regulations establishing standards and procedures for the administration and enforcement of the Davis-Bacon labor standards provisions. Federal contracting agencies have day-to-day responsibility for administration and enforcement of the Davis-Bacon labor standards provisions in covered contracts for which they are responsible or to which they provide federal assistance under laws they administer.

If you are aware of a defense contractor, highway contractor, large health care company, or other large contractor or subcontractor that is defrauding the United States Government out of millions or billions of dollars, it is extremely important that the fraud is reported.  For more information on the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA), please go to the following United States Department of Labor Web Page or Government Contractor Wage Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer

Financial Services Fraud Crackdown: Prosecutors, regulators close to making Libor arrests | Reuters

The SEC and Several Government Agencies Are Cracking Down on Financial Services Fraud That May Send Bankers, Brokers, and other Financial Services Professionals to Jail and Allow SEC Bounty Action Whistle Blowers That Act Quickly to Reap Large Financial Rewards by Texas Bank Fraud Whistle Blower Lawyer and Texas Broker Fraud Whistle Blower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

The SEC is offering large financial rewards to encourage bankers and financial services professionals with knowledge of financial services fraud, investment fraud schemes, insider trading, false accounting schemes, stock manipulation schemes, and other SEC violations, to expose fraud and corruption.  These rewards are only available to whistle blowers that are the first to properly expose the fraud.  These whistle blowers will need to act quickly as the SEC and other government agencies are moving forward with several high profile investigations and arrests that may reveal the fraud. 

Exclusive: Prosecutors, regulators close to making Libor arrests | Reuters

"Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., have recently contacted lawyers representing some of the individuals under suspicion to notify them that criminal charges and arrests could be imminent, said two of those sources who asked not to be identified because the investigation is ongoing."

"Defense lawyers, some of whom represent individuals under suspicion, said prosecutors have indicated they plan to begin making arrests and filing criminal charges in the next few weeks. In long-running financial investigations it is not uncommon for prosecutors to contact defense lawyers for individuals before filing charges to offer them a chance to cooperate or take a plea, these lawyer said."

New York and Connecticut probing banks over Libor manipulation

"New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched a probe into possible manipulation of the Libor benchmark international lending rates by global banks, his spokesman said on Sunday.
Schneiderman, along with Connecticut's Attorney General George Jepsen started the investigation six months ago into the possible rigging of Libor, the London interbank offered rate, New York Attorney General spokesman James Freedland told Reuters."

"The U.S. Justice Department is also building criminal cases against several financial institutions and their employees related to the manipulation of interest rates, The New York Times reported on Saturday.  The Times said cities, states and municipalities in the United States were trying to determine whether they suffered loses due to rate manipulation and some had filed suit. Given the broad scope of the Libor case and the number of institutions thought to be involved, the investigations could provide authorities with a "signature moment" to hold big banks accountable for misdeeds during the financial crisis, which hit global markets from late 2007, the newspaper said."

Texas Financial Services Whistle Blower Lawyer and Texas Banker Whistle Blower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer Works With Financial Services Professionals to Confidentially Evaluate SEC Whistleblower Bounty Actions and Protect Financial Services Whistle Blowers From Retaliation

Texas Bank Fraud Whistle Blower Lawyer and Texas Broker Fraud Whistle Blower Lawyer, Jason S. Coomer, works with financial services professionals who want to confidentially blow the whistle on securities fraud, investment fraud, SEC violations, and other forms of financial fraud.   By working with a financial fraud whistle blower lawyer, these financial fraud whistle blowers can confidentially evaluate their SEC whistle blower bounty action and protect their career.  If you are aware of securities fraud or other financial fraud and need more information on this topic,  please feel free to contact Texas Bank Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer and Texas Broker Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Coomer via e-mail message  or go to the following web pages: International Financial Services Whistle Blower Lawsuit Information or SEC Whistle Blower Incentive Program Lawsuit Information.