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Golden Dome Missile Defense Oversight and Procurement Fraud Red Flags

September 18, 2026

Golden Dome for America is a developing layered U.S. missile-defense architecture. Its oversight risks arise from rapid, distributed procurement, a...

Title graphic reading "Golden Dome Missile Defense: Oversight Gaps and Fraud Red Flags," with concentric arcs representing a layered defense architecture.

Abbott Infant Formula False Claims Act Settlement Reaches Nearly $385 Million Dollars

September 17, 2026

False Claims Act

On September 14, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a $384,999,040 settlement with Abbott Laboratories to resolve False Claims...

Abbott infant formula whistleblower settlement — $384.9 million total, $69 million relator share, announced September 14, 2026.

New FDA-SEC Agreement Puts Pharma and Biotech Securities Fraud in the Spotlight

September 3, 2026

General

Key Takeaways On August 31, 2026, the SEC and FDA signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) creating a formal...

New FDA-SEC Agreement Puts Pharma and Biotech Securities Fraud in the Spotlight

Eleventh Circuit Vacates Zafirov: False Claims Act Whistleblowers Are Not “Officers of the United States”

September 2, 2026

False Claims Act

Defendants accused of defrauding the government will sometimes attack more than the allegations against them. They attack falsity. They attack...

New Jersey Prevailing Wage Claims: Private Right of Action and False Claims Act Cases

August 28, 2026

Employment

Key Takeaways New Jersey public-works workers can sue directly for unpaid prevailing wages under N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.40, recovering back wages, costs,...

Title card for a guide to New Jersey prevailing wage claims under N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.40 and the False Claims Act.

DOJ Declined My Qui Tam Case: What Now? | Non-Intervened FCA Lawyer

August 21, 2026

False Claims Act

Start with the law. If the United States declines to proceed with a False Claims Act case, the relator has...

How Do I Report Illegal Transshipment Fraud and Receive a Whistleblower Award?

August 14, 2026

False Claims Act

Before you contact U.S. Customs and Border Protection, confront the importer, or upload documents to a government portal, determine whether...

Title graphic for the article "How do I report illegal transshipment fraud and receive a whistleblower award?", with four figures from the piece: $19-$26 billion in modeled annual federal revenue losses, more than 40 countries identified as elevated risk, a 245% increase in post-release discrepancies, and the $9.75 million Ceratizit whistleblower share.

CFTC Whistleblower Awards May Get Faster: 30% Presumption for Awards of $5 Million or Less

August 12, 2026

CFTC whistleblower

Short Answer The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed a new 30% presumption for qualifying CFTC whistleblower awards where the...

The $549.5 Million Perfectus Aluminum Case: How Fake “Pallets” Became a Customs Fraud Whistleblower Case

August 4, 2026

General

The Perfectus Aluminum case is the clearest modern example of how a customs classification theory can become a massive parallel...

Redi-Bag USA and CEO Agree to Pay $7.3 Million: How False Country-of-Origin Declarations Can Become a Customs Fraud False Claims Act Case

July 31, 2026

False Claims Act

A country-of-origin declaration can look like a line on a customs form. In the Redi-Bag USA settlement, the government alleged...

Title graphic for Brown, LLC's guide to the Redi-Bag USA $7.3 million customs fraud settlement and how false country-of-origin declarations can become a reverse False Claims Act case.

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