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 […]
Interesting New Virginia Legal Ethics Opinion on Lawyer Blogging, Client Secrets, and Marketing
Earlier this month a three judge panel convened by the Virginia State Bar issued an interesting opinion on the topics of lawyer blogging, client secrets, and free speech. The panel was convened to hear a disciplinary appeal by Richmond criminal […]
K&G Law Group Announces $18.1 Million Settlement in federal False Claims Act case unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
VIRGINIA STATE BAR DISCLOSURE: EVERY CASE IS DIFFERENT AND THE OUTCOME OF THIS OR ANY OTHER CASE DEPENDS ON A VARIETY OF FACTORS UNIQUE TO THAT CASE. THE OUTCOME OF ANY CASE IS NEVER CERTAIN OR GUARANTEED. Late yesterday afternoon the Department […]
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 […]
Study by the Center for Public Integrity Finds State Governments at Risk for Corruption…Surprise Surprise
Study by the Center for Public Integrity Finds State Governments at Risk for Corruption An excellent study just released by the Center for Public Integrity finds state governments to be at risk for corruption — you can check out a […]