Detroit — A Detroit Police lieutenant's punishment after she complained to supervisors about suspected overtime scams in her precinct prompted her to file a whistleblower lawsuit that she said exposes a culture of rampant time fraud with no oversight, and vindictiveness by command staff toward cops who report wrongdoing.
Detroit Police officials admitted under oath that there was no valid reason to suspend Lt. Lori Pierce for 30 days without pay in 2023 after she put together and shared a spreadsheet titled "The $3 Million Unit" that showed 11 members of the 3rd Precinct's Special Operations Unit had earned more than $3 million in salary in 2022. The officers' pay that year was boosted by more than 13,000 hours of overtime, according to Pierce's lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court.
NeoGenomics Laboratories Inc. (NeoGenomics), located in Florida, has agreed to pay $9,813,260 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by providing below fair market value cons...