Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum, are intended to serve as a type of digital money that consumers can use in everyday commercial transactions. They may be traded on online exchanges for conventional currencies, including the U.S. dollar, or be used to purchase goods or services, usually online. But with one bitcoin recently trading at around $15,000, an increase of…
Posted January 22nd, 2018. Complaint Details Systematic Gender Discrimination in Employment Against Beloved, Long-Serving UA Dean Patricia MacCorquodale Honors College Leader Paid “Dramatically Less” Than Male Deans: Disparate Compensation by University Alleged for MacCorquodale and All-Female Deans Campus-Wide at State’s Flagship Research University For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] January 22, 2018, USA – Sanford Heisler Sharp filed a gender discrimination…
Posted January 19th, 2018. today announced that San Diego’s Scripps Health System has agreed to pay the United States Government more than $1.5 million to settle claims brought by a whistleblower under the False Claims Act. The suit was filed in early 2016. The whistleblower, represented by alleged that the San Diego-based Scripps Health System unlawfully billed the United States…
Posted January 17th, 2018. New Material Details MNAA’s Attempts to Defame Wigington, Damage His Reputation, And Retaliate Against Him After He Filed His Federal Suit For more information, contact Jamie Moss of newsPRos at or [email protected] January 17, 2018, Nashville, TN –Lawyers at representing Robert Wigington, the former President and CEO of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (“MNAA”), in a wrongful…
Posted January 12th, 2018. COMPLAINT SEEKS $300 MILLION IN DAMAGES AND SYSTEMIC CHANGE TO END GENDER BIAS AT OGLETREE. CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT FILED BY SANFORD HEISLER SHARP ALLEGES THAT OGLETREE ROUTINELY UNDERPAYS FEMALE SHAREHOLDERS, DENIES THEM PROMOTIONS, AND GIVES MALE SHAREHOLDERS CREDIT FOR CLIENT ORIGINATIONS BELONGING TO FEMALE SHAREHOLDERS. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (“Ogletree”), one of the…
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has established a program to reward whistleblowers that report violations of the Commodities Exchange Act (CEA). The CFTC whistleblower program was created by the Dodd-Frank Act and became effective in October 2011. Under the CFTC’s burgeoning whistleblower program, whistleblowers have been rewarded with individual pay-outs as large as $10 million. Under the CFTC whistleblower program,…
About two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing more than $3.7 billion in settlements and judgments during fiscal year 2017[1] from civil cases brought under the False Claims Act – a federal law that rewards whistleblowers (called “relators”) who recover stolen taxpayer dollars from fraudsters. The government’s press release attaches DOJ’s FY2017 “Fraud Statistics” charts, which document…
Posted January 4th, 2018. Jeremy Heisler Named Vice-Chairman of the FirmRussell Kornblith Named Partner and New York Managing Partner Ali Harwin Named Partner and Co-Chair of National Title VII PracticeKate Mueting Named Co-Chair of National Title VII Practice (January 4, 2018, New York) – Sanford Heisler Sharp today announced promotions and new leadership roles for many of the firm’s lawyers across its U.S platform. “These…