Month: February 2006

McKesson Corp., a wholesale pharmaceutical distributor, will pay $3 million to the federal government to settle claims that it defrauded the Department of Defense. The False Claims Act suit had alleged...

A case that will test whether the federal False Claims Act applies to the conduct of contractors working in Iraq is scheduled to start on February 14. The suit, the result of a whistle-blower complaint,...

Corporate Express Office Products, a Colorado-based company, has paid the United States $5.02 million to settle a qui tam suit brought under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. The suit...

In an article in the February 10, 2006 issue of the Hartford Courant, Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, suggests that a state false claims act would help restore integrity to state...

The Missouri Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Medicaid Fraud heard testimony supporting enactment of a state False Claims Act that would allow whistle-blowers to file suit on behalf of the...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that Premio Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to fraud in the Federal E-Rate program. The company, which manufactures and sells computer equipment and software, will pay...

Intrepid USA, a Minnesota-based home health care chain, has paid the United States $8 million to settle a False Claims Act suit. The suit alleged that the company overbilled overbilled three government...

Marisco Ltd., an Oahu-based shipyard company, and Tanadgusix Corp., a native Alaskan tribal business, will pay the federal government $450,000 to settle claims that they defrauded the General Services...