In this episode of The False Claims Act Insider, Tony interviews Shahroo Yazdani. Shahroo is a new member of the Price Benowitz team. Shahroos focus is dealing with cases involving the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). OFAC is an organization within the US Department of Treasury. OFAC enforces economic and trade sanctions that are based on the United States foreign policy. These sanctions are administered following the United States national security objectives against selected countries, terrorists, traffickers, etc. Tony and Shahroo discuss the future of OFAC and how this can impact individuals. The two believe OFAC will become more relevant in peoples lives as OFAC will transition into sanctioning individual people rather than whole countries. The duo also dive into the regulations, dynamics, and the ways OFAC will affect businesses.
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Join Tony as he chats with Jeb White, the President & C.E.O. at Taxpayers Against Fraud Education. Tony and Jeb start out by touching on the impact of the recent economic injection on fraud and how this increases the need for false claims act lawyers, noting that increased government spending creates a pocket of opportunity for qui tam attorneys and whistleblowers. Jeb explains that negative public opinions of whistleblowers are an unfortunate reality, and the best way to fight back at this backlash is with the truth. Tony and Jeb discuss the history of the False Claims Act and the prominence of this type of case in the healthcare industry, adding that wherever money is flowing, there will be FCA cases. 

In this Episode, Tony interviews Stephen Jaffe. Stephen is an experienced attorney, as well as the owner/founder at The Jaffe Law Firm in San Francisco, California. Stephen specializes in employment law, representing employees in False Claim Act cases. Stephen has about a half a century experience in various features of federal and state litigation including trials, mediations, appeals, and arbitrations. Tony and Jason discuss the incentive compensation ban, and how it saw changes under different presidential administrations. The incentive compensation ban prohibits universities from providing incentive compensation to employees for their success in securing student enrollments. The two also dive into multiple cases Stephen has been involved in, and how The False Claims Act has affected each case. Stephen also goes into detail about the pandemics affect on False Claims Act cases.

On today’s episode of False Claims Act Insider, Tony Munter is joined by Rebekah Bailey, an attorney at Nichols Kaster Law Firm in Minneapolis, to discuss employment law, false claims, and whistleblower cases. Rebekah talks about her practice in large class or collective action cases, and her experiences tackling complex litigation, including balancing class action lawsuits and qui tam actions. Rebekah discusses the complexity of employment law, the value in these cases and how her firm is taking on the challenge of employment cases. Tony asks Rebekah about how she and her firm approaches litigation throughout these cases and what she expects of these cases moving forward. 

In this episode, Tony interviews John Kostyack. John is the Executive Director at the National Whistleblower Center. John has an extraordinary passion for promoting justice through his extensive experience in environmental law. This passion led him to joining the National Whistleblower Center as he believes whistleblowers are incredibly powerful and courageous to create and bring about justice.

Tony and John discuss the importance of whistleblowers, as well as laws and legal grounds involving whistleblowers. The two discuss the False Claims Act and how it has changed and affects the whistleblowers life. John explains that being a whistleblower can be completed totally confidentially and keeping the whistleblower totally safe. John and the National Whistleblower Center are working everyday to not only create whistleblower laws around the world, but effective whistleblower laws to help bring justice to whistleblowers everywhere, while keeping these people safe.

In this episode, Tony interviews Jason Marcus. Jason is an experienced Attorney at Bracker & Marcus LLC, in Atlanta Georgia. Jason practices consumer law, as well as labor and employment law. Jason has a major desire for assisting businesses going through the bankruptcy process, as well as fraudulent activity. Jason has spent a lot of his time assisting smaller business, bringing them fair and successful case decisions.

Tony and Jason discuss the importance of finding a lawyer when going through the process of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy to many is the last life of their businesses, and if not analyzed fairly, can lead to the debt of a large amount of money. The duo also explain the effect of fraud in business law cases. Fraud is an illegal act that involves deceptive actions from a person to experience illegal gains. The two also discuss how the False Claims Act effects other aspects of businesses, and employment law.