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False Claims Act: An Inspector General's Best Friend, John Carroll

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Federal and State False Claims Acts facilitate recovery against contractors who bill the government fraudulently. FCAs have many components which make them potent anti-corruption weapons.

Using Gps Devices In Inspector General Investigations After Cunningham V. New York State Department Of Labor, Wesley Cheng

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

When the New York State Office of the Inspector General (“NY-OIG”) suspected that a New York State employee named Michael Cunningham was submitting false time reports, its investigators turned to electronic surveillance to assist in their collection of evidence. Without obtaining a judicial warrant, NY-OIG investigators covertly attached a global positioning system (GPS) device to Cunningham’s car and collected data on Cunningham’s vehicular movements twenty-four hours a day for a month, including during his vacation. Ultimately, the GPS data was used in a disciplinary hearing leading to Cunningham’s termination.

Profile In Public Integrity: Joseph Ferguson, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Joseph Ferguson is in his second term as Chicago’s Inspector General. Ferguson came to the Inspector General’s Office following 15 years with the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Northern District of Illinois. From 1994 through 1999 he represented the United States in cases before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving employment discrimination (Title VII), civil rights, environmental law, and government program fraud. From 2000 to 2009, Ferguson worked in the Criminal Division of the USAO, prosecuting public corruption, mail/wire fraud, tax, healthcare and government program frauds, …

Profile In Public Integrity: Adam Graycar, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Adam Graycar is Professor of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU), where he is also Director of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption. He joined ANU in 2010 when he became the Foundation Dean of the Australian National Institute for Public Policy for two years. He recently stepped down after four years as Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU.

Graycar acquired extensive policy experience over 22 years in the senior posts he held in Australian government at state and federal levels. He has had long experience in both academia and in government. His most …

Profile In Public Integrity: Frank Vogl, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Frank Vogl is Co-Founder of The Partnership for Transparency Fund and Co-Founder of Transparency International, former Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and currently a member of the Transparency International Advisory Council and the Advisor to Transparency International’s global Managing Director. He is also the President of Vogl Communications and former World Bank Group Director of Information and Public Affairs and acting head of External Relations. Previously, Vogl was an international economics correspondent for Reuters news service and The Times (London).

Profile In Public Integrity: Marianne Camerer, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Marianne Camerer co-founded Global Integrity, a leading international anti-corruption non-profit. She is the Programme Director of Building Bridges, a new policy-focused research and outreach programme at the Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She previously headed anti-corruption research at the Institute for Security Studies, was a founding director of the Open Democracy Advice Center and lectured in applied ethics at the University of Stellenbosch. Marianne holds a doctorate in Political Studies from the University of Witwatersrand, masters’ degrees in public policy and political philosophy from Oxford and the University of Stellenbosch, …

Profile In Public Integrity: Mark Greenblatt, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Mark Greenblatt is an attorney in the Greater Washington area specializing in criminal and ethics investigations. Over the course of his career, Mark worked in several roles to lead investigations into misconduct by senior officials in U.S. and foreign governments, most recently as Director of Special Investigations at the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General. He also served as an Investigative Counsel for the special investigations unit of the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General. He also led the U.S. Senate investigation into the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Program. Mark is a graduate of Duke University and Columbia …