Yesterday, Chief Judge Wood in the Southern District of Georgia unsealed whistleblower claims we filed against Z Gallerie, a large retailer with stores across the United States. The case was unsealed because the government joined our complaint against Z Gallerie and agreed to a $15 million settlement to resolve our allegations against the company. In […]
Last week, the Boeing Company agreed to pay the United States $18 million to settle allegations that it falsely charged the Government for labor under maintenance contracts it had with the Government for the C-17 Globemaster aircraft. A former employee of Boeing brought this whistleblower complaint under the qui tam provision of the False Claims […]
Several recent cases involving companies who were awarded contracts with the federal government show that whistleblowers are often able to obtain significant financial rewards when reporting a company who is overcharging the government for products or services by violating the terms of its contract. Many federal contracts require companies doing business with the government to [&hel…
Three recent settlements illustrate the Department of Justice’s interest in aggressively pursuing claims brought by whistleblowers against defense contractors who fail to abide by the specific terms of their contracts with the government. In two recent cases, major defense contractors were forced to pay millions of dollars for overbilling the government for work performed by […]
CRC Health Corp., a Cupertino, California-based nationwide service provider of mental heath and substance abuse treatment, will pay $9.25 million to the State of Tennessee and the federal government, resolving allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims for reimbursement for substandard treatment. The allegations involve a CRC-owned and -operated…