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	<description>Join In the Fight Against Fraud</description>
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		<title>FCA Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not a good climate in which to be committing fraud against the government.  A new article notes that the FCA is on fire, concluding that
[u]nprecedented government spending, recent amendments to the FCA,  increased fraud enforcement budgets and priorities, skyrocketing FCA  recoveries, state legislative and enforcement activities, and the sheer  volume [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/investigative-warming/</link>
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		<title>A Whistleblower SNAFU gets Worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq who leaked video of a deadly helicopter attack that killed several people, including a Reuters reporter and a cameraman, has been charged with downloading more than 150,00 highly classified diplomatic cables. In a series of chats with a former outlaw hacker, R. Adrian Lamo, Manning claimed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/whistleblower-snafu-worse/</link>
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		<title>Crankin&#8217;up the HEAT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HEAT is the rather odd acronym for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team. It is the brainchild of Attorney General Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius, and despite the great stretches of the imagination it takes to make it work as an acronym (HCFPEAT doesn't exactly roll off the tongue), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/crankinup-heat/</link>
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		<title>False Marking Suit Against Solo Cup Lid Maker is a Bust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The patent attorney who brought a qui tam suit against the maker of Solo cup lids has failed in his quest to collect trillions of dollars in fines. We blogged previously about patent lawyer Matthew Pequignot's suit against Solo based on the qui tam provision of the patent law which allows citizens to sue companies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/false-marking-suit-agains-solo-cup-lid-maker-bust/</link>
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		<title>Foot Dragging on the Gulf Spill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It remains to be seen whether the Gulf oil spill will become Obama's Katrina. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll indicates that at the very least, some people believe that Obama is not doing enough to fix things in the Gulf. The poll found that 59% of respondents do not believe that the President [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/foot-dragging-spill/</link>
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		<title>Whistleblower in a Coal Mine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the story of the miners who died in the West Virginia coal mine before the story was overshadowed by the latest fossil fuel debacle? Well, a whistleblower has filed a federal whistleblower complaint claiming that Massey fired him in retaliation for pointing out safety violations at mines in West Virginia--including the one in which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/whistleblower-coal/</link>
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		<title>Why is the IRS Sitting on its Hands?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been more than three years since UBS whistleblower extraordinaire  Bradley Birkenfeld approached the DOJ, IRS, and SEC with information about potential tax evasion by U.S. clients facilitated by UBS AG. Since then, the IRS appears to have been sitting on its haunches and not making the most effective use of the information Birkenfeld [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/irs-sitting-hands/</link>
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		<title>A New Flavor: Ambulance Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is fraud at all stages of the health care delivery process, and as a settlement in a district court case in the Eastern District of New York emphasizes, even ambulance companies are trying to get a bigger piece of that Federal pie, courtesy of you the taxpayer.
The case is
United States ex rel. Kaplan v. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/ambulance-fraud/</link>
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		<title>Stapler Fraud = Stealth Fighter Jet Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, office supplies aren't nearly as sexy or controversial as Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor Stealth fighter. Who hasn't dreamed of being in the cockpit of a F-22 when our boss is trying to take away our stapler? Unfortunately office supply companies are not immune to the temptations of defrauding the government. The Florida Attorney General [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/stapler-fraud-stealth-fighter-jet-fraud/</link>
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		<title>Medtronic Shelling out the Big Bucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medical device manufacturer Medtronic has voluntarily disclosed that it paid almost $16 million in royalties and consulting fees in the first quarter of 2010.  Of this amount, the vast majority--$14.2 million--went to orthopaedic specialists or surgeons, with $13.9 million of that in the form of royalties for surgical inventions. More than 200 doctors were the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quitamteam.com/blog/medtronic-shelling-big-bucks/</link>
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