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cases involve a situation where a
company or individual has defrauded the
government or some governmental entity
out of money through some sort of
fraudulent scheme we’ve been handling
those kind of cases a long time we have
cases in the office now one is a drug
manufacturer who overcharged for drugs
and was not truthful about what the drug
would do other types of cases in the
medical field is where Kickbacks are
paid to doctors not in the form of cash
of course but they try to cover them up
with some type of scheme like renting
space from a doctor for adults
price that’s not fair there’s all kinds
of
schemes that they come up with cable
companies uh illegal charges that they
make are improper charges that they make
there’s all different types of schemes
that have been put together to try to
defraud the government or get money from
the government in those cases The
Whistleblower is called the relator
and the case is filed under Seal The
Government Can elect to participate or
not participate if they elect to
participate then they’re involved in the
case if they don’t then the relator
takes the case on his his or her own and
goes forward then if there is a recovery
the relator gets a percentage of it uh
and we represent the relator and then
get our fee from the percentage that the
relator gets they take a long time
they’re extremely complex but uh they
can turn out well for people that are
willing to step up and expose the fraud
of companies
Oklahoma City, OK employment attorney Michael Burrage discusses his experience in handling whistleblower cases.