When we have a few minutes free, we put pen to paper (well, “fingers to keyboards”).  Several of our articles can be viewed or downloaded.

 

In October 2008, False Claims Act and Qui Tam Quarterly Review published “Restoring Reason to False Claims Act Motions Practice,” an article by Rick Morgan and Kevin Detroy which examines the bizarre state of case law under the False Claims Act’s “original source” provision and demonstrates how important it is for the False Claims Act Clarification Act to be passed into law.

 

Rick’s article, “Of Third Rails and Rabbit Trails:  The No-Contact Rule and the McDade Amendment in Qui Tam Lawsuits” appeared in the April 2005 issue of Taxpayers Against Fraud’s False Claims Act and Qui Tam Quarterly Review.  This article talks about the problem which government counsel and qui tam lawyers representing whistleblowers encounter when lawyers for big corporations claim that they represent every employee of the company, which can really hamper an investigation.  Here’s a PDF of the article.

 

A lengthy interview with Rick was published in Corporate Crime Reporter, and can be read here.

 

Jennifer and Rick co-authored “Notes From the Field:  Practicalities of the Qui Tam ‘Working Relationship’ Under the 1986 False Claims Act Amendments,” which appeared in the January 2003 issue of TAF’s False Claims Act and Qui Tam Quarterly Review.  Download or read it here.

 

Rick’s first False Claims Act article, written with longtime friend Julie Popham, is “The Last Privateers Encounter Sloppy Seas:  Inconsistent Original Source Jurisprudence Under the Federal False Claims Act,” 24 Ohio Northern L. Rev. 163 (1998).  Here it is.  Although it’s taken 10 years, Congress is now poised to address the problems with judicial interpretation of the False Claims Act’s public-disclosure provisions.

 

Rick published this little False Claims Act overview in the Columbus (Ohio) Bar Association magazine with a former colleague in 2007.

 

Some of our favorite links:

 

First and foremost, Taxpayers Against Fraud.  TAF and its Education Fund have emerged as the Nation’s most effective voice for whistleblowers, second only to the False Claims Act itself.  ‘Nuf said.

 

It’s been a half-century, more or less, since Pogo Possum first said “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”  The False Claims Act proves the point too well:  Too many of our contractors are hell-bent-for-leather on cheating us out of our money.  But there is another, even more relevant POGO:  the Project on Government Oversight.  POGO is a vigorous watchdog seeking government accountability.

 

Another vigorous nonprofit is GAP, the Government Accountability Project.

 

Cornell Law School maintains a good library of government-contracting materials, including Medicare and Medicaid resources.