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
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. […]
The ACLU’s Ill-Advised Publicity Stunt Comes to an End
Today, Judge O’Grady issued his
Introducing the New and Improved Federal False Claims Act!
As I mentioned a week or two ago, the Federal False Claims Act has been updated and improved by the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. While the amendments to the FCA fall short of those proposed in the still-pending False […]
THE FEDERAL FALSE CLAIMS ACT IS REVAMPED FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY!!!!
In 1986, with the budgetary strains caused by the cold-war, and with fraudsters draining the U.S. Treasury with impunity, Congress acted by revitalizing the False Claims Act. Today, Congress once again strengthened the False Claims Act, and brought that Act […]
THE MINNESOTA FALSE CLAIMS ACT IS SIGNED INTO LAW
We began the 2009 state legislative season with a list of states paying a federally mandated penalty for not having a false claims act. Today, I am happy to report that the
State Qui Tam Legislative Updates
Sadly, as the last of the state legislative sessions wind down this month, it appears that we do have a single new state False Claims Act to report. Kansas appears to have passed a non-qui tam state statute, which can only be […]
Important New Opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Addresses the Seal Requirements of the Federal False Claims Act
An important new opinion issued today by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria Division) discusses the mandatory disclosure and seal requirements of the Federal False Claims Act. The opinion can be found on Westlaw as […]
Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund files Amicus Curiae Memorandum in Support of the Department of Justice’s Motion to Dismiss in ACLU, et al. v. Eric Holder, et al., 1:09cv042
Today the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund filed its memorandum in support of the
Fools–or in this case, the Government Accountability Project, OMB Watch, and the ACLU–Rush In Where Angels Fear to Tread
A lawsuit currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia seeks to have most the Federal False Claims Act declared unconstitutional. The