Tag: customs fraud

Customs Fraud Lawsuit Settles The U.S. government has settled a customs fraud lawsuit against International Vitamins Corporation (IVC), a domestic company that imports vitamins and supplements from China. The government alleged that IVC misrepresented over 30 products to avoid customs duties and failed to repay these duties despite acknowledging the misclassifications. As per the approved...

A closely watched case out of New York concerning the reverse false claims provision of the False Claims Act settled last week. The case was groundbreaking not for its size (it settled for just $2.95 million) but because it was the first involving the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that federal health care fund recipients return overpayments within...

When the Department of Justice reported its Fiscal Year 2013 results, it put the use of the False Claims Act to fight health care fraud front and center.  Whistleblowers are not limited to bringing lawsuits against hospitals and drug companies, however.  The False Claims Act applies broadly to fraud against the government.  A number of...

The U.S. Department of Justice recently partially unsealed a whistleblower’s false claims act case against Federal Cartridge Co., a subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems, Inc., alleging that approximately 30 to 40 percent of the lots of ammo provided by the company failed to pass government specifications but were still distributed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement field...