Fraud in America The Anti-Fraud Coalition, TAF Coalition

In our newest episode of Fraud in America, we have some new faces to introduce you to!

Our brand new host is a familiar face: Jacklyn DeMar, who also became the President & CEO of The Anti-Fraud Coalition, the producer of Fraud in America. In this episode, Jackie's first guest is Vince McKnight of Sanford Heisler Sharp, who was named the Chairman of TAF Coalition Board of Directors.

Vince is an incredibly accomplished whistleblower lawyer who has taken on defense contractors, big banks, and big healthcare companies recovering billions of dollars.

In 2022, the pharmaceutical giant Biogen, agreed to pay $900 million to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute. Today, we’re sitting down with Michael Bawduniak, the whistleblower behind this massive case.

In this interview, Michael shares his 10-year whistleblower journey and taking on a brazen payoff scheme.

In this episode of Fraud in America, we sit down with John McMickle, a lobbyist for our sister organization, Taxpayers Against Fraud, who has helped strengthen whistleblower laws over the last two decades.

We sit down with John to talk about his career, what exactly he does as a lobbyist, and what's happening in Congress with whistleblower laws.

With 2023 quickly coming to a close, we sit down with Jacklyn DeMar, the Director of Legal Education of The Anti-Fraud Coalition (TAF Coalition) to discuss the big developments of this year and what’s coming up in 2024.

On this episode of Fraud in America we cover Supreme Court decisions, major whistleblower victories, and what’s happening in financial fraud spaces.

In the wake of the Great Recession, Dennis Kelleher co-founded Better Markets, a non-profit pushing for more robust interpretation of financial regulations and combat the army of bank lobbyists.

On today’s episode of Fraud in America, we sit down with Dennis to break down the work Better Markets has been donig, lessons learned from the 2008 financial collapse, and how more needs to be done to crack down on Wall Street.

For more than 32 years, Rick Mountcastle worked at the Department of Justice and later at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia where he took on Purdue Pharma and their marketing of OxyContin.

In today's Fraud in America episodes he dissects his career, his case against the pharmaceutical giant, and how politics got in the way of protecting vulnerable patients.