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Markowitz Herbold
Website: markowitzherbold.com
Markowitz Herbold is a law firm that publishes blogs focusing on legal issues related to fraud, whistleblower cases, and government enforcement actions. Their content often covers healthcare fraud, financial and cryptocurrency scams, false claims against government contracts, and legal remedies available to whistleblowers under statutes like the False Claims Act. The firm highlights real-world examples of fraudulent schemes, legal consequences for perpetrators, and the role of whistleblowers in exposing misconduct. They also provide information on legal representation for individuals seeking to report fraud or recover damages. The blog serves as a resource for understanding complex fraud cases and the legal landscape surrounding whistleblower protections and government fraud enforcement.
29 published works
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Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
From Test to Testimony:
The United States spent a lot of money responding to COVID. Like, a lot a lot. How much? How about $4.4 trillion. If COVID spending was a country, it would…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
More Urine Trouble
This is not the first time we've commented on fraudulent urine tests. This scheme is a little different from the last time though. This time, the lab was actually doing…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
If you think God is telling you to do fraud.
As excuses go, “the dog ate my homework” is pretty piss-poor. It raises way more questions than it answers: How’d the dog get on your desk? Why was your homework…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
Crypto bros perpetrate pig butchering scheme.
I don’t know much about farm life. I mean, sure, I have kids so I read children’s literature which is full of farm animals acting like real people. But I…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
Fraud is . . . billing for time spent watching “There’s Something About Mary”
I thought we all agreed, as a society, not to mess around with fire prevention at a nuclear site. That seems like something we could all get behind, right? Think…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
“Home” healthcare company doesn’t provide services in-home
Old people don't like leaving their homes. They especially don't like moving out of the home that they've lived in for 20 or 30 years. And they especially don't want…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
Kickbacks disguised as “affiliations”
A kick back is basically a bribe. A Referring Business sends a customer to a Serving Business. The patient pays the Serving Business which sends part of the payment back…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
Whistleblowers expose crypto fraud
Until recently there were only two ways to make money with crypto. The first is buy and hodl bitcoin or ethereum. But mostly bitcoin. The other was to fraudulently boost…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
Fraud is … a pharmacy billing for drugs that were never ordered.
For a lawyer, the cardinal rule of billing is that you cannot bill two clients for the same hour of work. For a lawyer, inventory is limited to 24 hours…
Oregon Whistleblower’s Blog
When bots blow the whistle.
Anyone from a secretary to a CEO can be a whistleblower. Apparently, so can robots. A firm that uses data to identify fraud in government programs just received a $1…