The False Claims Act (FCA)
GlaxoSmithKline - Paid a total of $3 billion for illegal marketing practices involving Paxil, Wellbutrin and Avandia. The whistleblowers split around $250 million.
Bank of America - Paid $16 billion for mislabeling mortgages and selling them to government insured mortgage companies. The whistleblowers received $170 million.
Johnson & Johnson - Paid $2.2 billion to settle off-label fraud and kickback allegations related to the prescription drugs Risperdal, Natrecor and Invega. The whistleblowers received $167 million in rewards.
Tenet Healthcare – Paid $900 million to settle allegations of upcoding, kickbacks and fraudulent Medicare payments. The whistleblowers received $150 million.
HCA – Paid $631 million to settle allegations of physician kickbacks and fraudulent billing. The whistleblower received $150 million.
Pfizer – Paid $1 billion to settle FCA claims involving drugs like Viagra and Zyrtec. The whistleblowers received over $150 million.
Merck – Paid $650 million to settle allegations of physician’s kickbacks and inappropriate billing to Medicare. Information about how much was paid to whistleblowers has not been disclosed, but if they were paid a reward by qualifying for one, based on the 15% - 30% rule, they should have received somewhere around $97.5 - $195 million.
TAP Pharmaceutical Products – Paid $875 million to settle allegations regarding drug pricing and marketing. The whistleblowers received $95 million.
JP Morgan Chase – Paid $614 million to settle allegations regarding originating and underwriting non-compliant mortgages. The amount the whistleblowers received was not disclosed but it should be somewhere in the range of $92 – $184 million.
Serono Inc. – Paid $704 million for allegedly offering kickbacks to physicians and other marketing misconduct. The amount the whistleblowers received was not disclosed but it should be somewhere in the range of $85 – $170 million
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (United States) – Paid $3.3 billion to resolve allegations that they bribed Malaysian government officials in order to be selected to underwrite billions of dollars in bonds for a special fund the Malaysian Government was working on.
Airbus SE (Netherlands/France) – Paid $2.09 billion to settle allegations that they engaged in and facilitated a scheme to offer and pay bribes to decision makers and other influencers, including to foreign officials, in order to obtain improper business advantages and to win business from both privately owned enterprises and entities that were state-owned and state-controlled.
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (Brazil) – Paid $1.78 billion to solve allegations that members of the Petrobras Executive Board were involved in facilitating and directing millions of dollars in corrupt payments to politicians and political parties in Brazil, and members of Petrobras’s Board of Directors were also involved in facilitating bribes that a major Petrobras contractor was paying to Brazilian politicians.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Sweden) – Paid $1.6 billion to settle charges brought by the DOJ that included conspiring to violate the anti-bribery, books and records, and internal controls provisions of the FCPA.
Telia Company AB (Sweden) – Paid $1.01 billion to settle charges brought by the DOJ that included violating the FCPA’s antibribery provisions.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
UBS – Paid $780 million to settle charges involving having helped thousands of wealthy Americans hide billions of dollars in secret Swiss bank accounts. The whistleblower in this case received $104 million.
Unnamed company- Most likely a Fortune 500 company, they paid between $126 - $250 million in taxes and penalties. The whistleblower in this case received $38 million as a reward.