Settlement Reached in Reditus Whistleblower Lawsuit for $5.5M

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit paying $5.5 million to the government and to a whistleblower who helped send former Reditus Laboratories CEO Aaron Rossi to prison for defrauding taxpayers.

The whistleblower was Dr. Lorine LaGatta, a medical director at a Reditus affiliated lab, who raised concerns that Rossi and his Pekin-based firm were exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to make money from the government.

LaGatta filed the lawsuit in 2022, which until now has been sealed, after she said she witnessed billing and kickback schemes.

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