Potential Uses of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act

Truly, there is nothing new under the sun….including the reasons UVa seeks to quash the Civil Investigative Demand issued by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli

Lest anyone think that the debate about Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s quash and/or set aside the CIDs in the Circuit Court for the County of Albemarle, Virginia.  This is shaping up to be an interesting fight, because this is the very first […]

Cuccinelli Investigates Grant Fraud at the University of Virginia

The D.C. Examiner has a story today about Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issuing a Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) to the University of Virginia as part of an investigation into grant fraud.  You can read Bill Flook’s excellent story here. […]

Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli Staffs Up the Office of the Attorney General

The WaPo political blog has important updates about the staffing
of Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli’s office
.

It appears Ken has made some good choices, picking people with significant legal experience. Perhaps most significant for the FCA/qui tam world is Cuccinelli’s selection of Steve  Buck–who
spent the last three years as Section Chief of the Health Care Fraud Section of the OAG–to head up Public Safety and Enforcement.

Charles E. James will serve as …

Fraud on the Government–a true Equal Opportunity Employer

The Washington Post today has this story about deaf entrepreneur John Yeh and a false claims act case filed against him by the U.S. Department of Justice. Yeh is a graduate of Gallaudet University, and has been at the forefront of […]

News from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia: United States Intervenes in False Claims Act Suit Against Virginia Medicaid Providers

News from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia: United States Intervenes in False Claims Act Suit Against Virginia Medicaid Providers

Everyone seems to focus on the treble damages, civil penalties, and attorney’s fees…

For understandable reasons, people tend to focus on the treble damages, civil penalties, and attorney’s fees provided for in the federal False Claims Act and in the 26 states with false claims acts.  Today, I want to talk about one of […]

Announcing the Largest Federal Qui Tam/False Claims Act Settlement in History–and Virginia’s Share

Today, the United States Department of Justice announced the largest qui tam/False Claims Act settlement in history–all totaled, Phizer will pay $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal allegations that it committed a wide variety of fraud with regard to […]

News from the Virginia Attorney General Race–Former Attorney General Jerry Kilgore Endorses John Brownlee for Attorney General in 2009

Former Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced this morning that he has endorsed John Brownlee’s bid to secure the Republican nomination for that post.  Kilgore also announced that he has agreed to serve as General Chairman of Brownlee’s campaign.  “We […]

Congressional Testimony in Support of the False Claims Correction Act of 2009

In the past two months, two House bills and two Senate bills have been introduced in an effort to strengthen the Federal False Claims Act.  These bills respectively are: S. 386, “Fraud Enforcement and recovery Act of 2009,” (Feb. 5, […]

New Virginia Website Attempts to Expose VDOT Waste

An interesting new website by state Sen. Mark Obenshain has the goal of exposing waste, fraud and abuse in the Virginia Department of Transportation.  No question about it, government spending always results in a certain level of fraud, waste, and abuse. That is why […]