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Fraudulent Claim Gets The Triple Whammy

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 03.03.09

In Daewoo Eng'g and Constr. Co. v. U.S. (Fed. Cir. Feb. 20, 2009), the Federal Circuit affirmed the CFC's findings that the contractor had submitted a $64 million claim involving approximately $50 million based on material misrepresentations that amounted to a fraud. From this, the contractor received the triple whammy of forfeiting its entire claim under the CDA, being penalized $50 million under the CDA, and being fined $10,000 under the FCA.

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Client Alert | 2 min read | 03.11.26

Bipartisan Group of State Attorneys General and State Charity Regulators Send Letter to GoFundMe: Implications for Charities and Companies

On March 3, 2026, a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general and state charity regulators (the “States”) sent a letter[1]to GoFundMe expressing their concerns about GoFundMe's creation of donation web pages for more than 1.4 million charities without their prior knowledge or consent....