by Tim McInnis, Esq | Mar 1, 2013 | Our Cases
Death, Deep Vein Thrombosis, and Toxic Reactions Leading to Impaired Kidney Function Were Side Effects in Elderly Yet Drug Manufacturer Created Separate Nursing Home Sales Force to Off-Label the Drug, According to NYC-Based National Qui Tam Whistleblowers’ Attorney Timothy J. McInnis, Esq.
(NEWARK, NJ) –For at least four years, drug manufacturer Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc., and its subsidiary Par Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (together “Par”) risked the lives of senior citizens across the U.S., by illegally off-label marketing to the elderly Megace ES, a prescription approved only to help HIV and cancer patients gain weight by increasing their appetite, qui tam whistleblowers’ attorney Timothy J. McInnis announced.
Read the McInnis Law News Release
Read the Par Pharmaceuticals Settlement Agreement
Read the U.S. Attorney’s News Release
The Key Relators’ Original Complaint
by Tim McInnis, Esq | Jan 18, 2011 | Our Cases
(New York City) —The Princeton Review received millions of federal dollars for operating an after-school tutoring program for underprivileged students at underperforming schools by falsifying attendance – which continued even after its vice president in charge was alerted to the fraud – Princeton Review’s owners admitted today by settling fraud allegations, Qui Tam Whistleblowers’ Attorney Timothy J. McInnis announced.
For 46 months ending in June 2010 Princeton Review falsely billed the United States under the Supplemental Educational Services (“SES”) program. They submitted falsified attendance sheets, which included forged signatures, according to the Settlement Agreement among the United States, which filed its own fraud Complaint, the qui tam whistleblower represented by McInnis, and the corporate owners of Princeton Review.
The United States, in May 2012, intervened in the Qui Tam Whistleblower case originally filed in 2009 by the Law Office of Timothy J. McInnis, against The Princeton Review and a former employee at the Review’s SES tutoring division. The Government’s fraud Complaint allege forging of student signatures, falsifying sign-in sheets, and providing false certifications for those attendances. Federal funds were involved under the No Child Left Behind law’s response to underperforming public schools.
In January 2013 the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced fraud guilty pleas by two former Princeton Review directors, along with civil settlements by the two former directors, and a former Princeton Review vice president.
Read the McInnis Law News Release
Read the Princeton Review Settlement Agreement
Read the U.S. Attorney’s May 2012 News Release
The Government’s Complaint
The Relator’s Complaint
Read the U.S. Attorney’s January 2013 News Release
Read the January 2013 Princeton Review Green Settlement and Dismissal
US ex rel Jane Doe v. The Princeton Review, Inc., Stephen Green, and Ana Azocar (index number 09 CIV 6876 (BSJ)
by Tim McInnis, Esq | Jan 16, 2011 | Our Cases
Additional Qui Tam Whistleblowers’ Allegations Still Pending Resolution, According to Manhattan-Based Qui TamWhistleblower Attorney Timothy J. McInnis, Esq.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ex reI. JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE Plaintiffs, v. AHS HOSPITAL CORP., ATLANTIC HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., OVERLOOK HOSPITAL, et al. U.S. District Court, Newark, NJ: Civil Action No. 08-2042 (WJM)
(SUMMIT, NJ) – Overlook Hospital and parent AHS Hospital Corporation which operates three north Jersey hospitals, have agreed to pay more than $9 million to the U.S. Government to partially settle Qui Tam Whistleblower allegations of Medicare fraud and false billing over a seven-year-period, according to attorney Timothy J. McInnis, of McInnis Law in New York City, (WhistleblowerLegal.com) who represents the two whistleblowers who brought the case on behalf of the United States in 2008.
As alleged in the Complaint which is being partially settled, AHS Hospital Corporation, Atlantic Health Systems, Inc., and Overlook Hospital (“AHS”) frequently billed Medicare Part A for services provided to elderly persons under more expensive in-patient billing codes. Instead, the care provided to these elderly patients should have been billed under less expensive “observation” or “out-patient” procedure codes, the Complaint states.
Read the Complete AHS $9 Million Qui Tam Whistleblower News Release from McInnis Law
Read The AHS Whistleblower Complaint
Read The AHS Whistleblower Settlement Agreement
by Tim McInnis, Esq | Jan 15, 2011 | Our Cases
In June 2011 a final settlement was reached among the relator, the Government, and the defendant in the False Claims Act matter, US ex rel. [Relator] v. Institute of International Education (index number 07 CV 8294 (Castel, J.)), filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, involving allegations of defrauding the State Department’s Fulbright Scholarship Program for foreign graduate students studying in the US. The whistleblower received a $170,000 reward from the Government.
Related filed court documents:
Government Press Release (PDF)
Complaint (PDF)
Amended Complaint (PDF)
Complaint in Intervention (PDF)
Qui Tam Settlement Agreement (PDF)
Relator Share Agreement (PDF)
