Wherever Government dollars are spent – whether for national defense, healthcare, acquisition of goods and services, small and disadvantaged businesses, transportation and infrastructure improvements, housing subsidies, grants or aid in emergencies – scrutiny follows. The False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §3729 et. seq., has become the primary weapon in the federal government’s arsenal to combat fraud, waste, and abuse. Sheppard Mullin’s attorneys are among the nation’s leading specialists...
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Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced that Sightpath Medical, Inc. (n/k/a Sightpath Medical, LLC) (“Sightpath”), TLC Vision Corporation (n/k/a TLC Vision (USA, LLC)) (“TLC”) (collectively the “Sightpath Entities”) and their former CEO, JAMES TIFFANY, have agreed to pay more than $12 million to the United States to resolve kickback allegations under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). The United States also intervened in an underlying lawsuit against the Cameron-Ehlen Group, Inc. d/b/a Precision Lens (“Prec ...
The False Claims Act empowers whistleblowers who have firsthand knowledge of false or fraudulent claims to report them to the appropriate government officials, and to incentivize the...
Minnesota Republicans repeated debunked tales about schools providing litter boxes for students who identify as cats during debate over the House education budget bill Wednesday. Reps. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, and Tim Miller, R-Prinsburg, shared the fictional stories in support of Drazkowski’s proposal to give lawmakers control over a statewide student survey. The anecdotes show, Miller said, how the Minnesota Student Survey’s questions about gender and sexuality encourage “moving to the absurd” in allowing students to explore their ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A federal civil jury has returned a verdict in favor of the United States for more than $43 million for violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute. During the six-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright, the United States proved that the Defendants the Cameron-Ehlen Group, Inc., which does business as Precision Lens, and its owner Paul Ehlen paid kickbacks to ophthalmic surgeons to induce their use of Defendants’ products in cataract surgeries reimbursed by Medicare. The jury found ...
Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care will pay $18 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it claimed Medicare reimbursement for hospice care for patients who were not eligible for such...
High Court False Claims Ruling Underscores Communication Is Key · Federal contractors should avoid taking unjustifiable risks when interpreting regulations—and then submitting bills to the US government— if they want to stay out of False Claims Act trouble. That’s one of the takeaways from Justice Clarence Thomas’ June 1 opinion in United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc., which reinstated FCA suits alleging the SuperValu and […] ; CLE: The Art of Drafting and Responding to Effective Demand Letters · Telephone Seminar, 6/21/2 ...
— Former President Donald Trump has revived his four-year-old false claim about how he and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz handled the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Walz is among the Democrats whom sources say Vice President Kamala Harris is considering as a potential running mate. Trump, the Republican nominee, claimed during a Saturday campaign speech in Minnesota: “Every voter in Minnesota needs to know that when the violent mobs of anarchists and looters and Marxi ...