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On October 15, 2009, at the American Bar Association's Fourth Annual National Institute on Securities Fraud, David Rosenfeld, associate regional director for the Northeast Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), revealed that the SEC has established a nationwide Pension Fund Working Group to civilly and criminally prosecute pension fund managers, advisors, administrators and "the like" where "pay to play" contributions occur
As reports of global fraud continue to rise, members of corporate boards are becoming increasingly concerned about personal liability that could result from both large- and small-scale financial fraud as well as bribery, corruption and other fraudulent activities
The full House approved legislation that would extend protections of Pennsylvania's whistleblower law to employees of non-profits and private sector companies which receive money from a public entity
In a July 31, 2012 opinion in Little v. Shell Exploration & Prod. Co., the Fifth Circuit has held that a federal employee may be a "person" under the False Claims Act (FCA) and thus may maintain a qui tam claim
