AND THE WINNER IS … MARK OBENSHAIN EMERGES AS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
AND THE WINNER IS … MARK OBENSHAIN EMERGES AS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL… Breaking news from Richmond has Mark Obenshain beating Rob Bell to win the Republican nomination for Attorney General. […]
A Brief History of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act Part IV — City of Richmond vs. McDevitt Street Bovis
Today is another entry in my occassional series on the history of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Today, we take a look at an important SCOVA case that caused some influential […]
Checking in on the 2013 race for Virginia Attorney General…
Checking in on the 2013 race for Virginia Attorney General… The 2013 race for Virginia Attorney General seems to have been uneventful so far, at least when compared with the 2009 primaries. The […]
A Happy Belated Birthday for the federal False Claims Act!
I had a five-day jury trial last week (i.e., March 4-8) so I apologize for missing the 150th birthday of the federal false claims act on March 2, 2013. I received the […]
K&G Law Group takes Second Place in the Annual Virginia Lawyers Weekly feature “Top Settlements for 2012”
K&G Law Group takes Second Place in the Annual Virginia Lawyers Weekly feature “Top Settlements for 2012” I am pleased to announce that according to Virginia Lawyers Weekly the $18.1 million settlement last year in U.S. ex rel Chao v. Calnet, […]
Overview of state methods for using the money recovered from state false claims act prosecutions
As regular readers are well aware, recoveries under the federal False Claims Act have, for the last four years, been record-breaking. In FY 2012, nearly $5 billion (to be exact, it was $4.959 billion) was recovered in settlements and judgments […]
The Taxonomy of Qui Tam Cases in Government Procurement
Government procurement fraud cases usually fall into one of several categories, and today’s post takes a look at this taxonomy. (As regular readers know, of course, when we use the word “government” in this blog, we generally mean federal, state […]
It must be getting too dangerous to traffick drugs…
Yesterday the United States Department of Justice simultaneously unsealed criminal indictments in five districts, arrested 52 criminals and announced arrest warrants for two dozen more in what was billed as the single largest health care fraud bust in history. It seems […]
Didn’t I tell you there are less things to blog about in the summer?
Didn’t I tell you there are less things to blog about in the summer?Last summer I pointed out that there is a trend over the last four years of blogging — there just seem to be fewer things to blog about […]
Delaware Attorney General Joe Biden Jr. Intervenes in Delaware False Claims Act Case Case Concerning Unclaimed Property
Delaware Attorney General Joe Biden Jr. Intervenes in Delaware False Claims Act Case Case Concerning Unclaimed PropertyAs regular readers know, I am a proponent of using state false claims acts to pursue unclaimed property suits against Holders of Unclaimed Property. […]