F.D.R. Station, P.O. Box No. 87 New York, N.Y. 10150 (888) 70IPSIG (Toll free) September 18, 1997 Dear Colleague: Corporations and governments are under growing pressure to correct illegal and unethical corporate conduct and to take positive steps to prevent and detect wrongdoing. Corporate oversight, both self-driven and government-mandated, is a focus of daily attention….
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Statement Of Neil V. Getnick about Proposed New York City Legislation to Regulate the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center and Other Public Wholesale Markets
I am Neil Getnick, managing partner of the New York City law firm Getnick & Getnick LLP. We practice in the areas of commercial counselling and litigation, with a particular focus on civil prosecution, the use of civil remedies to combat commercial fraud and related criminal conduct. Since 1991, I have chaired the New York…
Statement of Neil V. Getnick About the Implementation of Local Law 50, Which Regulates Activities at the Fulton Fish Market
I am Neil Getnick, managing partner of the New York City law firm Getnick & Getnick LLP. We practice in the areas of commercial counselling and litigation, with a particular focus on civil prosecution, the use of civil remedies to combat commercial fraud and related criminal conduct. Since 1991, I have chaired the New York…
The False Claims Act: Enlisting Citizens in Fighting Fraud Against the Government
Published in the NY Litigator, Vol.2 No.2, November 1996 by Neil V. Getnick and Lesley Ann Skillen This Report was prepared by the Civil Prosecution Committee of the Commercial-and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association and adopted by the Section. The authors of this report are Neil V. Getnick, Committee Chair,…
Statement of Neil V. Getnick about Proposed New York City Legislation to Regulate the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center and Other Public Wholesale Markets
I am Neil Getnick, managing partner of the New York City law firm Getnick & Getnick LLP. We practice in the areas of commercial counselling and litigation, with a particular focus on civil prosecution, the use of civil remedies to combat commercial fraud and related criminal conduct. Since 1991, I have chaired the New York…
The Qui Tam Law: Arming the Citizenry To Fight Fraud
by Neil V. Getnick and Lesley Ann Skillen Published in the New York Law Journal, October 22, 1996 October 1996 marks the 10th anniversary of the 1986 amendments to the Federal False Claims Act, 31 USC § 3729 et. seq., a century-old statute whose “whistleblower” — or qui tam — provisions have returned over $…
Statement of Neil V. Getnick About Proposed Legislation to Regulate and Reform Commercial Waste Removal in New York City
Good afternoon. Having testified at the City Council hearings on this proposed legislation, particularly endorsing its independent auditing and monitoring provisions, I am here today to urge that it be signed into law. In 1962, then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy delivered a major address on civil liberties and civil rights at the University of…
International Association of Independent Private Sector Inspectors General
Code of Ethics Preamble An Independent Private Sector Inspector General (IPSIG) is an independent, private sector firm with legal, auditing, investigative, management and loss prevention skills, employed by an organization (voluntarily or by compulsory process) to ensure compliance with relevant law and regulations, and to deter, prevent, uncover and report unethical and illegal conduct by,…
Statement of Neil V. Getnick about Proposed Legislation to Regulate and Reform Commercial Waste Removal in New York City
I am Neil Getnick, managing partner of the New York City law firm of Getnick & Getnick LLP. We practice in the areas of commercial counselling and litigation, with a particular focus on civil prosecution, the use of civil remedies to combat commercial fraud and related criminal conduct. Since 1991, I have chaired the New…
Corporate Heroes for Uncle Sam
by Neil V. Getnick & Lesley Ann Skillen Published in the New York Times, December 3, 1995 Corporate America has generally seen itself as being at the wrong end of whistle-blower lawsuits brought under the Federal False Claims Act, and views the statute as a weapon to be used against it. But a recent Federal…