A Look at the Procurement Integrity Act and Organizational Conflicts of Interest as they pertain to False Claims Act Litigation
Today we will take a look at a couple of the hot-button topics in the world of procurement fraud — specifically the Procurement Integrity Act (“PIA”)(41 U.S.C. § 423) and those portions of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (“FAR”) provisions prohibiting Organizational […]
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 […]
Changes to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act as of July 1, 2012
Changes to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act as of July 1, 2012. A new and amended version of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act took effect on July 1, 2012. The changes were mostly cosmetic, but there are some […]
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. […]
K&G Law Group, PLLC Announces the Launch of www.VirginiaQuiTamLawyers.com
Announcing the Launch of VirginiaQuiTamLawyers.comOn behalf of K&G Law Group PLLC I am happy to announce the launch of a new webpage dedicated to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and to qui tam litigation in Virginia — www.VirginiaQuiTamLawyers.com As with any webpage, it […]
New First Circuit Opinion Holds Important Lessons for Lawyers Interested in Bringing Qui Tam Cases…
New First Circuit Opinion Holds Important Lessons for Lawyers Interested in Bringing Qui Tam Cases…An important new opinion was published this week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit — the caption is US ex rel. Jones v. […]
Abbot Laboratories Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Civil and Criminal Claims in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Yesterday Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced a whopping $1.7 billion settlement in what he called “the largest Medicaid fraud case investigated by a state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit ever.” My regular readers know that the Virginia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (which is […]
The Question the American Legislative Exchange Counsel Cannot Answer: Why Do All of the Business-Friendly States Have State False Claims Acts?
The Question the American Legislative Exchange Counsel Cannot Answer: Why Do All of the Business-Friendly States Have State False Claims Acts?As my regular readers know, this blog is about qui tam litigation under the federal False Claims Act as well […]
Abraham Lincoln and the federal False Claims Act — Did Lincoln Really Say Everything He Said?
It is well known to most of my regular readers that Abraham Lincoln was one of the main forces behind the enactment of the federal False Claims Act during the American Civil War (also known as the War Between the […]
Congressional Oversight of Agencies Now on Display — But Who Has Oversight of State Agencies?
In a recent post, I discussed a study done by the Center for Public Integrity which found State Government agencies at a high risk for fraud, waste, and abuse. One of the major reasons for such corruption at the state level […]