Corporate Crime Blotter
| Sep 26: 35% of top 100 federal contractors paid $1.8 BILLION under #FalseClaimsAct since 2010. Top 2: aviation #recidivists. https://t.co/Z1BbElqSCG |
| Sep 26: Banks, led by #WellsFargo, paid $3+ BILLION under federal #FalseClaimsAct since 2010 — 2nd only to #healthcare firms https://t.co/Z1BbElqSCG |
| Sep 26: #Pharma corporations, hospitals, #insurers & other #healthcare firms paid ~$7 BILLION since 2010 for federal #fraud. https://t.co/Z1BbElqSCG |
| Sep 25: "If #WellsFargo fails to implement its #clawback policy, the board could be sued for breach of its #fiduciary duty" https://t.co/M8zM7ISF4q |
| Sep 23: 36 U.S. states sue UK #pharma #Invidior for blocking generic version of #Suboxone, used to treat #opiate #addiction https://t.co/KMhVzhN5RC |
| Sep 21: Ex-SEC chair: "It's clearly against the law for any company (or its executives) to try to suppress #whistleblowing." https://t.co/qZi4UUBRe2 |
| Sep 21: #WellsFargo fined $190 MILLION, fires 5,300 workers for opening 2 million secret bank/creditcard accounts since 2011 https://t.co/SeCTaHvYdT |
| Sep 21: Australian tax agency: #BHPBilliton owes AU$1 BILLION in #backtaxes (including interest & penalties) for FY2003-2013 https://t.co/onqRJcAGfU |
| Sep 20: Nigeria suing #Chevron, #ShellOil, #Agip & others for $12.7 BILLION in illegal oil exports to U.S. from 2011 to 2014 https://t.co/DR81wzjhaE |
| Sep 20: #Google to pay $418 MILLION in #backtaxes & fines to Indonesia after paying less than 0.1% in income and VAT in 2015 https://t.co/S7GyLNtHkO |
