Zachary Kitts
Zachary Kitts is a founding partner at K&G Law Group, PLLC, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of qui tam litigation under the False Claims Act, employment law, business torts, and other complex civil litigation matters. In total, Zach's false claims act cases have returned more than $118 million to federal, state, and local governments. Zach has been involved in a number of precedent-setting false claims act cases against banks and financial services companies, healthcare providers, defense contractors, and others.
California Files Suit Against State Street–Claims Bankers Engaged in Massive Fraud
October 20, 2009–California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced his intervention in a California state qui tam lawsuit against State Street Bank today. The original complaint was filed under seal by a qui tam relator and his counsel roughly one year ago in […]
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 […]
In Pursuit of a Maryland False Claims Act
The current edition of the Maryland Bar Bulletin sports an article by yours truly on the topic of a Maryland False Claims Act. I strongly believe that 2010 will be the year–so stay tuned…
North Carolina Joins the Deficit Reduction Club With a Bang
My apologies for missing this last week, but on August 28, 2009, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed the North Carolina False Claims Act into law, making North Carolina, by my count, the 26th state to pass a state false claims act. […]
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 […]
Fighting fraud should be bipartisan in California
Just in from California is this article from Capitol Weekly: the Newspaper of California Government and Politics in which California state Rep. Bob Blumenfield opines on California’s struggle to update its state false claims act. As has been discussed on this blog many […]
The ACLU’s Ill-Advised Publicity Stunt Comes to an End
Today, Judge O’Grady issued his
Oregon Joins the Deficit Reduction Club
Congratulations to Oregon for becoming the 25th state to join the Deficit Reduction Club by passing a state false claims act.There is no need to speculate about the benefits Oregon will receive from this common-sense legislation–we have the examples of […]
The First Shots in the Battle Over the Retroactivity Provisions of the New False Claims Act
As previously discussed on this blog, filed its statement of interest in support of the relator in Allison Engine. More battles are on the horizon–among the most interesting will be the battle concerning retention of overpayments. More on that to follow.
This sure explains a few things….
Having followed Maryland’s battle to enact a Maryland False Claims Act, I can’t help but point out this article from the Washington Post. It seems former Maryland Republican Party Chairman John Kane has been nailed under the federal False Claims […]