Q&A with Government Contracts Group Chair George Ruttinger

Crowell & Moring LLP Government Contracts Group chair George D. Ruttinger shares about his practice and his most challenging case. He also addresses new changes in Washington, saying, “Recent legislative initiatives have been hostile to government contractors, including amendments to the False Claims Act that facilitate parasitic suits by whistleblowers based upon little more than conjecture regarding alleged fraud. If the pendulum does not swing in the direction of contractors, companies that are contemplating entering the government contracts market will be deterred from doing so, to the detriment of the U.S. government and the taxpayer.”