It is commonly known that you are not allowed to “extort” money from a person. What does it mean to extort money? The definition is to obtain something by force, threat or other unfair means. In other words, you can’t threaten to turn in a criminal unless they pay you money.
Will our client, Zoltan Barati and the people of the State of Florida, get their day in court? In this case Florida’s whistleblower statute and the system is being turned on its head. The important question being decided is whether corruption will be given a loophole to escape responsibility. Qui
One such contractor, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc (KBR) is being sued by a whistleblower and the Department of Justice for defrauding the government. The lawsuit says two Kuwaiti firms, La Nouvelle General Trading & Contracting Company and First Kuwaiti Trading Company both were using a kickback scheme along
In Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2012, the Privacy Act case of former U.S. prosecutor Richard Convertino was reinstated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. This Privacy Act case accused the Bush Administration of deliberately leaking illegal information that was used to attack and tarnish
A word of warning: Don’t ever bring a whistleblower case based on accusations alone. They will be treated as speculation and given no weight. You must have some level of proof. What that proof needs to depend on the judge. Recently, US District Judge John E. Steele in Fort Myers,
