Cimino v. International Business MacHines Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________ ) PAUL A. CIMINO, ) ) Plaintiff-Relator, ) ) v. ) Case No. 13-cv-00907 (APM) ) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ) MACHINES CORPORATION, ) ) Defendant. ) _________________________________________ ) MEMORANDUM OPINION I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff-Relator Paul Cimino is a former employee of Defendant International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”). His job was to sell IBM’s Rational brand of software to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). Relator brought this action against IBM under the federal False…