12-year Justice Department veteran brings deep health care fraud enforcement experience to the whistleblower firm
BOSTON, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Whistleblower Law Collaborative LLC (WLC), a firm dedicated to representing whistleblowers nationwide under the False Claims Act and other whistleblower rewards programs, today announced that Augustine M. (Augie) Ripa is joining the firm as a partner, effective September 28.
Ripa spent 12 years with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Fraud Section, which handles False Claims Act matters nationwide in partnership with the 94 U.S. Attorney's Offices. There, he investigated and prosecuted dozens of False Claims Act matters, recovering more than $2.1 billion, primarily involving health care fraud. As Senior Counsel for Health Care Fraud, he also supervised DOJ attorneys on numerous health care cases, served as a go-to resource for his office and Assistant U.S. Attorneys on complex fraud schemes and investigative strategies and advised leadership on health care FCA enforcement policy issues. Ripa regularly led trainings for DOJ attorneys and AUSAs nationwide, including the Department's annual Civil Health Care Fraud training conference for new attorneys.
During his time at the DOJ, Ripa was instrumental in conceiving, establishing, and managing its current health care data analytics capabilities. He served as a DOJ participant in the FOCUS Initiative, designed to strengthen DOJ's working relationship...
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