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Critics call Wisconsin’s Medicaid fraud crackdown ‘bullying’
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The state claims tens of millions in fraud in the Medicaid program, but some home care and family planning providers say their expenses are legitimate.
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Joell Schigur warned bosses of possible illegal activity, but Wisconsin courts ruled she is not a whistleblower
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Dissenting Supreme Court justice called 2015 decision ‘absurd,’ saying it removes protections for employees who disclose information their supervisors already know
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Two Wisconsin whistleblowers recall journeys from reporting to ‘retaliation’
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Two state employees say they were humiliated and harassed after reporting suspected fraud in their agencies; ‘You feel rotten,’ Suzanne Weber said
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Defining Wisconsin’s whistleblower law
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Whistleblowing traditionally has been seen as a public-private effort to expose wrongdoing, said Patrick Burns, associate director of Taxpayers Against Fraud, whose group works to protect and advance the cause of whistleblowers.
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Wisconsin’s attack on waste and fraud leaves some whistleblowers, vulnerable residents behind
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Wisconsin ‘one of the worst states for whistleblowing,’ national expert says. Anti-fraud effort helps bottom line but falls mostly on programs for the poor.