The Holiday Acquisition Corp. and Fortress Investment Group, LLC (collectively Holiday) agreed to pay $8.86 million to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations for submitting false claims to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to qualify veterans or a surviving spouse of a veteran for monthly benefits from the Aid and Attendance...

Syracuse-based Hayner Hoyt Corporation has agreed to pay $5 million, plus interest, to resolve allegations that its chairman and chief executive officer, Gary Thurston, its president, Jeremy Thurston, employees, Ralph Bennett and Steve Benedict and Hayner Hoyt affiliates LeMoyne Interiors and Doyner Inc., engaged in conduct designed to exploit contracting opportunities reserved for service-disabled...

The United States Department of Justice announced today that Fifth Third Bank will pay $85 million to the federal government to settle claims under the False Claims Act ("FCA") relating to the Bank's practices in connection with loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The whistleblower,George Mann a former chief appraiser at the Bank,...

Walter Investment Management Corporation will pay $29.63 million for violations of the False Claims Act to settle charges brought by the Department of Justice, saying that several Walter Investment subsidiaries submitted false reverse mortgage claims to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The government says that, from August 2009 to March 2015, Reverse Mortgage...

Pediatric Services of America will pay $6.88 million to resolve allegations it failed to disclose and return overpayments received from federal health-care programs.Norcross, Ga.-based Pediatric Services of America Healthcare, Pediatric Services of America Inc., Pediatric Healthcare Inc., Pediatric Home Nursing Services (collectively PSA), and Portfolio Logic LLC provide home nursing services to medically fragile...

The United States of America has sued the estate of the late Layton P. Stuart, former owner and president of One Financial Corporation, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, One Bank & Trust N.A., both based in Little Rock, Arkansas, alleging that Stuart made misrepresentations to get the U.S. Department of the Treasury to...

Education Affiliates (EA), a for-profit education company based in White Marsh, Maryland, has agreed to pay $13 million to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Department of Education for federal student aid for students enrolled in its programs. EA...

The largest food vendor for the District of Columbia public schools will pay $19 million to settle a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit for overcharge the city and for mismanaging the school meal programs with food coming late, spoiled or in short supply. The whistleblower is a former director of the Office of Food and...

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the federal government in connection with its delivery of Next Day Air overnight packages, the Justice Department announced today. UPS is a package delivery company based in Atlanta. The civil settlement resolves a lawsuit filed...