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8 Jan 2009, 10:28 pm
  This will teach us not to cross the government.And it's all to protect us. [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 8:06 am by Ruby Powers
On June 26, 2013, the US Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, stating that federal benefits tied to marriage could only be considered for heterosexual couples, was unconstitutional, opening the doors for thousands of individuals to apply for things like social security, joint filing of taxes, the passage of estates, etc. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 8:00 am by Gregory J. Brod
What They Risk: The Cost of Defense Contract Fraud In the press release, an agent involved in the case explains the reason taking fraud seriously: “Overcharging the Department of Defense is always reprehensible because it drains precious funds and resources necessary to protect America’s warfighters. [read post]
24 Jan 2022, 10:59 am by Michael Lowe
  Of importance, the defense lawyer may also have to deal with a payment that has a legitimate basis but which the government is alleging to violate the AKS because its purported motivation is to influence or sway the physician to use the company’s products (think pharmaceutical manufacturers or suppliers). [read post]
14 Aug 2010, 2:23 pm by Mike
The government has explicitly stated that banks are above the law. [read post]
The Justice Department could use the second part of the conspiracy statute to claim that Trump and others defrauded the government by allegedly making false statements to cheat the government out of its property (such as classified documents and presidential papers) and to interfere with lawful government functions. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 11:06 pm by Jon Gelman
Logically the number of Defense Base Act claims will also begin to esculate as injuries and illnesses with increase   Today's post is shared from reuters.com/The U.S. government is preparing to boost the number of private contractors in Iraq as part of President Barack Obama's growing effort to beat back Islamic State militants threatening the Baghdad government, a senior U.S. official said.How many contractors will deploy to Iraq - beyond the roughly… [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 3:25 am by SHG
"  Still, a criminal defense lawyer gets used to thinking fast, working on the fly. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 2:03 pm by Michael Lowe
In North Texas, military surplus equipment is being sold by the federal government to local police departments under a federal law that provides for this sort of thing. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 5:16 am by Quinta Jurecic, Alan Z. Rozenshtein
” But the department emphasized that the suit involved “questions that implicate the institutional interests of the federal government. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 2:28 am
Remember that Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac own or guarantee nearly half of all of the mortgages in the US. [read post]
§ 793, prohibits “willfully retain[ing]” information “relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation” and “fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it” (emphasis added). [read post]
The US Treasury Department, in coordination with the governments of Canada and the UK, issued additional sanctions Friday against five Myanmar individuals and five Myanmar entities for their roles in procuring weapons and equipment for the military regime. [read post]
7 Aug 2014, 2:27 pm by Fraud Fighters
It is possible that you might be able to bring your own qui tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act, acting as a whistleblower on behalf of the US government. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 2:21 pm by Robert Hambrick
The Clearwater police officer retired before the Clearwater Police Department could fire him; in fact he retired even before Clearwater criminal defense attorneys could depose him for abusing the public trust.Yet it's troubling that leering at the information on fellow officer's wives in Florida information databases seems to have been the tipping point in forcing the retirement rather than the use of the database to find personal information on a reporter, nor the… [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 10:51 am by fraudfighters
  Department of Justice announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement Northrop Grumman Corp. in which the company has agreed to pay $12.5 million to resolve allegations in a lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act alleging that the defense contractor submitted false claims to the government in connection with electronic parts it sold to the government to be used in navigation systems for military aircraft and submarines. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 2:08 pm by Alex Vitrak
Adam Liptak helpfully laid out the apparent inconsistencies between the government’s words and actions in a New York Times piece; an earlier ACLU blog post made a similar point, using additional examples drawn from the government’s defense of the NSA’s PRISM program. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 12:48 am by Ben Vernia
-based company is alleged to have submitted claims for payment to various Defense Department prime contractors. [read post]