United States ex rel. Conner v. Mahajan

After losing his job at Mutual Bank, Kenneth Conner brought this qui tam action claiming that the defendants, most of them directors or officers of the bank, had defrauded the government in violation, of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733. The United States declined to take over the qui tam action, which Conner eventually settled. But the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation filed its own lawsuit against many of the same defendants. That case also settled, and Conner thinks he is ¡entitled to a share of the settlement proceeds the FDIC received from the defendants. To that end…