State Sen. Jamie Raskin fires the opening salvo in this year’s fight for a Maryland False Claims Act
The Maryland legislature has failed to pass a Maryland False Claims Act in each of the last two legislative sessions. Each time, the bill failed by a single vote in the state Senate. This year will be different. We have […]
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 […]
President Obama Signs the Franken Amendments into Law
Today, President Obama signed the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill into law. Significantly, the bill included the so-called “Franken Amendments” which requires all contractors with more than $1 million in revenues from using mandatory arbitration provisions in their employment agreements. Specifically, military contractors may not: […]
GMU Law School Sponsors Lecture on the False Claims Act
I am honored to be joining Alan S. Goldberg, Peter B. Hutt II, and Victor Kubli in presenting a lecture on the federal False Claims Act at the George Mason University School of Law today. The lecture is sponsored by GMU’s Journal of Law, Economics, […]
Virginia’s Award-Winning Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Issues its FY 2008-2009 Annual Report
I have just finished reading the
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]