The U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday that Tennessee-based Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation and three affiliated New Mexico hospitals (collectively “Community Health”) have agreed to pay the federal government $75 million to settle a relator’s allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by making illegal donations to…
On Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced that Lafferty Enterprises, LLC, doing business as Trans-Star Ambulance Services (“Trans-Star”), has agreed to pay $948,000 to settle a relator’s allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing federal health care programs for medically unnecessary…
Office Depot, Inc. has agreed to pay $68.5 million to settle a relator’s allegations that the Florida-based office supply and services retailer had defrauded all political subdivisions within the state of California that had purchased goods and services from Office Depot. More specifically, in violation of the California False Claims…
Yesterday, the Kansas Attorney General’s Office announced that it had filed suit under the state’s recently enacted False Claims Act against a New Jersey company that sent false invoices for textbooks that were never purchased or delivered to at least 317 Kansas public schools. The suit was filed against Robert…
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived the federal government’s False Claims Act case against Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. (“Bollinger”) in connection with a contract under which Bollinger was to modify eight vessels owned by the United States Coast Guard (“Coast Guard”). The $78 million in modifications ultimately rendered the…
The Attorney General of Massachusetts announced today that Canton-based environmental services company National Water Main Cleaning Co. (“NWMC”) has agreed to pay more than $650,000 to settle allegations that it submitted fraudulent bills and records on multiple public contracts for sewer, storage tank, and catch basin cleaning, maintenance, and repair…
On Wednesday, an Alabama federal court judge refused to dismiss a whistleblower’s complaint filed against Safety-Kleen Systems Inc. (“Safety-Kleen”) under the False Claims Act. The Texas-based provider of environmental services, oil re-refining, and responsible cleaning solutions allegedly overbilled the federal government for cleaning solvents used by a military depot. More…
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (“SUNY”) has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle allegations made by a number of relators that its Center for Development of Human Services (“CDHS”) violated the False Claims Act by…
On Monday, overseas military contractors pled guilty in federal court to criminal fraud in connection with overcharging the federal government for food and water supplied to soldiers in Afghanistan. Supreme Foodservice GmbH, a privately-held Swiss company, and Supreme Foodservice FZE, a privately-held United Arab Emirates company, (collectively “Supreme Foodservice”) will…
The federal government and the state of Florida have filed a civil complaint under the False Claims Act, intervening in a relator’s case against FastTrain College (“FastTrain”). The now defunct Miami-based for profit chain of schools allegedly submitted fraudulent documents to the U.S. Department of Education on behalf of students…