The FBI's Big Bust Doesn't Make America Safer
The FBI arrests an 18-year-old while letting the big fraudsters go free. It's all just to get promoted.
I had the opportunity last week to meet with a would-be new whistleblower in the public health sector in the Midwest. I don’t want to identify her beyond that because she and her attorney are preparing to file a lawsuit soon and I don’t want to cause any problems for them. I will say this, though: Like most whistleblowers, she spotted the fraud, she reported it up her chain of command, and she was fired.
We spoke for much of the weekend about the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse that she witnessed at a major hospital chain and about how that chain was stealing taxpayer money by fraudulently billing Medicare and Medicaid for services and medications that were not provided. I referred her to the National Whistleblower Center and said that I would help her find a Washington-based attorney who is skilled in large-scale whistleblower cases.
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