False Claims Act Update & Alert
	Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. | WWW.TAF.ORG           August 14, 2009
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		Subscribe to this FREE Newsletter Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz n TAF Home Page n Previous Newsletters n Email editor   Please take a moment to forward this FREE electronic newsletter to others that might be interested!	Westchester Must Build Housing to Help End Discrimination Westchester County, N.Y., has agreed to spend $50 million of County funds to ensure the development of 750 housing units in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a FCA lawsuit which charged the County with taking large amounts of money from HUD under an agreement that required the County to take action to end discrimination in local low-income housing.  Westchester took the money, but did not address its discrimination problems.  >> To read more
			Boeing to Pay in Two Cases Boeing has agreed to pay $25 and $2 million to settle two False Claims Act cases.  In the smaller case, Boeing allegedly cheated taxpayers by falsifying billing records at a San Antonio plant that maintains Air Force planes.  In the larger case, brought by the same set of lawyers, Boeing is alleged to have performed defective work on the aerial refueling fleet used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
			Dynamics to Pay $15 Million Dynamics Research Corporation, a defense contractor in Andover, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $15 million plus interest to settle charges that two of its executives  steered Air Force contracts for computer equipment and services to companies they owned. In a related criminal proceeding in 2001, the two executives pleaded guilty to fraud, and were sentence to prison and ordered to pay restitution. >> To read more
			Katrina Case Moves Forward A federal judge has ruled that whistleblowers Cori and Kerri Rigsby can testify in the lawsuit the sisters brought against State Farm alleging the insurer defrauded the government through claims filed after Hurricane Katrina.  For certain kinds of cases State Farm must now submit the names of those insured, as well as the details of their flood insurance coverage.  >> To read more
			Profile In Integrity A profile of Columbia-HCA whistleblower Jim Alderson is featured in the current issue of Profiler magazine.  Entitled The Man Who Made a Difference, the article details the partnership of Alderson and fellow-relator John Schilling, who helped blow the whistle in a case that led to the largest federal fraud settlement ever negotiated by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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