Author: Jeremy Schlosser

An associate in Dorsey’s Trial Group, Jeremy’s practice focuses on commercial and banking litigation, as well as regulatory compliance involving the Bank Secrecy Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and matters involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Jeremy’s clients have included both Chinese entities and American entities with operations in Mainland China and Taiwan. He is fluent in written Chinese and in spoken Mandarin

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New Orleans Federal Court Dismisses Relators’ Improper Billing Claims against FEMA Temporary Housing Contractor Due to Insufficient Evidence

On September 14, 2016, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana granted a government contractor’s summary judgment motion and dismissed a lawsuit brought against it by False Claims Act relators (“Relators”) because Relators failed to identify evidence supporting the existence of a genuine issue of material fact regarding their claims that the contractor had improperly billed the Federal Emergency Management Agency...

New York Trial Court Dismisses FCA Tax Case against Vanguard; Determines Relator Violated Confidentiality Provisions of State Attorney Ethics Rules

On November 13, 2015, the New York State Supreme Court dismissed a qui tam action brought under New York State Finance Law §§ 187-194 (“False Claims Act”) against The Vanguard Group Inc., The Vanguard Group of Mutual Funds, and Vanguard Marketing Corporation (collectively, “Vanguard”) by a former Vanguard in-house tax attorney because the Court found that plaintiff had improperly relied on confidential information obtained through...

Eighth Circuit Vacates Relators’ FCA Settlement Recovery; Concludes that the FCA “Allows Relators to Recover a Percentage of the Proceeds of the Settlement of ‘the Claim’ Brought by the Relators, and Only That Claim”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently vacated an award of settlement proceeds to relators of several related qui tam actions because the district court failed to make factual findings as to whether the government’s settlement with one of the defendants was based on claims that factually overlapped with the claims brought by the relators. Rille v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al., No....