Toepleman v. United States

ALBERT V. BRYAN, District Judge.

The Fifth Amendment’s due process clause, contend the appellants, bars recovery of the $164,000 and $60,000 claimed in these two cases, respectively, as the aggregate of forfeitures under the-False Claims Act,* because of the peculiar circumstances here. This statute exacts $2000, aside from damages, from-“every person who makes * * * any claim * * * against the Government of the United States knowing such claim to be false * * * or fraudulent”. The circumstances stressed are the affirmative finding of the trial court in one case-of no “legally recoverable…