United States ex rel. Wilkins v. North American Construction Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND AMENDED ORDER

ROSENTHAL, District Judge.

In 1995, relator Patrick Wilkins, a former chief operating officer of a subcontractor to a drilling contract with the Army Corps of Engineers, filed this suit under the qui tarn provisions of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3730. Wil*504kins filed suit under seal- so that the United States government could investigate his ■allegations and determine-whether to exercise its statutory right to intervene and prosecute this lawsuit. 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(3). Three years later, the government completed its review and filed its…