On May 19, 2000, Bob Sands Fishing Tackle (“Bob Sands”) elected to opt-into into a Consent Judgment to resolve citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro’s allegations that Bob Sands and seventy-eight other defendants manufactured, distributed, or sold fishing tackle products containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite...
On March 12, 2001, Pro-Troll Inc. and affiliated companies Scott Plastics Ltd., Scotty Inc., Hotspot Fishing and Lures Ltd., and Scotty Sportfishing Products Inc. (collectively “Pro-Troll”) opted into a Supplemental Consent Judgment to resolve citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro’s allegations that Pro-Troll and fourteen other defendants sold fishing tackle...
Dubuis Health System and Southern Crescent Hospital for Specialty Care, Inc. (Southern Crescent) have agreed to pay $8 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month. Dubuis Health System manages long-term acute care hospitals in multiple...
Two of the country’s largest commercial shredding services companies, Shred-It Incorporated and Iron Mountain, recently agreed to pay $1.1 million between them to settle allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the federal government, related to contracts for secure shredding services, the U.S. Department of Justice...
Whistleblower Richard Priem will receive $1.8 million as his share of the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) settlement with the U.S. government, the Associated Press reported recently.
SAIC received federal grant money through the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to provide course management, development, and instruction to first responder...
The polling and market research firm Gallup Organization has agreed to pay $10.5 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act and the Procurement Integrity Act for conduct involving several of its federal government contracts and subcontracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this month. Gallup is headquartered in Washington, D.C...
Michigan-based healthcare practices Jackson Cardiology Associates (JCA) and Allegiance Health have agreed to pay a total of $4 million to settle allegations that the facilities knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this week.
JCA owner Dr. Jashu Patel and...
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has agreed to pay the U.S. government $5.75 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims under a contract with the General Services Administration (GSA), the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this month.
In 2006, GSA awarded a blanket purchase...
North Carolina-based TranS1 Inc., now known as Baxano Surgical Inc., has agreed to pay the U.S. government $6 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and other federal health programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
The government alleged that TranS1 knowingly caused health...
The federal government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Infirmary Health System Inc. and related entities IMC-Diagnostic and Medical Clinic (IMC), Diagnostic Physicians Group P.C. and Infirmary Medical Clinics (DPG), the Department of Justice announced this week.
The lawsuit alleges that IMC, in Mobile, Ala., billed Medicare for...
