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Qui Tam Tax Evasion False Claims Act (FCA)

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$40 Million Settlement With Bitcoin Billionaire And Company Shows The D.C. False Claims Act’s New Tax Provision Has Sharp Teeth

Takeaways: •The Office of the Attorney General for D.C. announced a $40 million settlement with Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy, Inc., marking the largest income tax recovery in D.C. history. •The resolution arose from a...more

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Will An Economic Downturn Lead to An Increase in Tax-Related Whistleblowing?

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Economic Downturn? The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee announced last week that it would raise the Fed’s baseline interest rate by 0.75 percentage points, the largest such increase since 1994. ...more

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New York False Claims Act Recovery Highlights Growing Risk of Tax Claims Pursued as False Claims

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The New York attorney general on March 2 announced a $105 million New York False Claims Act settlement against an individual hedge fund manager and his firm for alleged tax evasion based on allegations originally brought by a...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

New York Whistleblower Suit Results In $105 Million From Hedge Fund Manager Who Evaded Taxes

On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Corporation Counsel James E. Johnson released a statement announcing their recovery of a $105 million settlement from a hedge fund...more

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Corporate Investigations and White Collar Defense - July 2016

“Official Acts”—What They Are… and Are Not - Why it matters: On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court decided McDonnell v. U.S., holding that, for purposes of the federal public corruption statutes, an “official act”...more

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