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C&M Obtains Total Offset of Treble Damages

Client Alert | 1 min read | 02.21.14

In U.S. ex rel. Purcell v. MWI Corp. (D.D.C. Feb. 10, 2014), which C&M defended, the district court zeroed out a $22.5 million treble damages jury award against the defendant, finding that the $108 million in payments to the government by the third-party borrower of the loans at issue were offsetting compensatory payments. The court rejected the government's alternative arguments that no offset be applied or that any offset be limited to the jury's $7.5 million single damages award as without any legal support and contrary to the fact that the government had already been "made completely whole" and "gotten what it paid for" by the payments already received, concluding that only penalties were appropriate.


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Client Alert | 3 min read | 04.14.26

DOJ’s False Claims Act Resolution Against IBM Signals Heightened Risk for Federal Contractors with DEI Programs

On Friday, April 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has agreed to pay just over $17 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by failing to comply with federal anti-discrimination requirements incorporated into its federal contracts due to allegedly discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employment practices. This resolution marks the first FCA settlement secured by the DOJ under its Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, created in May 2025, and announced by then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as part of the administration’s coordinated efforts to target allegedly unlawful DEI practices. Per the agreement, the settlement is neither an admission of liability by IBM nor a concession by the United States that its claims are not well founded....

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