The Conservative Cave
Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on September 09, 2010, 08:11:43 PM
-
http://usactionnews.com/2010/07/planned-parenthood-sued-in-fraudulent-over-billing-of-government/
A Big Win Against Planned Parenthood
I want to share with you a tremendous victory out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California in a case of great importance.
In a unanimous decision issued today, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit has ruled in favor of our client in a multi-million dollar fraud case against Planned Parenthood (PP) affiliates in California. We represent a former employee of the PP affiliate in Los Angeles, who is now a federal whistleblower. A federal district court in California had dismissed the case, but the Ninth Circuit’s ruling reinstates the lawsuit.
This is a huge victory. While this case is by no means over, winning this appeal means we have gotten the federal claim over the threshold hurdles and can now get down to the heart of this case: the alleged fraud.
Our Senior Litigation Counsel Walter Weber did an exceptional job in presenting our case to the 9th Circuit.
The federal False Claims Act (FCA) forbids government contractors from submitting “false or fraudulent†claims for payment. The FCA also authorizes private individuals to bring suit against the offenders to recover the fraudulently obtained funds.
The allegation in this case is that PP affiliates in California illegally marked up the supposed cost of various birth control drugs when seeking government reimbursement, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of over-billing – at taxpayer expense. State audits in both California and Washington State have found PP affiliates guilty of over-billing.
<exerpted>
Balance at link.....
doc
-
Good deal. There's no reason for fraud like this... except greed.
-
OIG exclusion list should be the penalty. It would be for most other organizations.
That is a pretty heavy penalty, basically you are forbidden from any federal business till removed.