Abdou v. Walker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SHAREEF ABDOU, Plaintiff, 19 Civ. 1824 (PAE) -v- OPINION & ORDER BRIAN MAHANY, et al., Defendants. PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge: Shareef Abdou (“Abdou”) was a successful plaintiff and relator in a qui tam action brought on behalf of the United States against his former employer, a nationwide bank, for violations of the False Claims Act (“FCA”),

31 U.S.C. § 3729

et seq., relating to the bank’s mortgages practices. The case settled for $300 million. Abdou was represented in the action by the defendants here: the law firm of Mahany…