Mendez v. United States

Confidential Informant; Compensation, Restitution, or Reward; Judicial Forfeitures; Breach of Express or Implied-In-Fact Contract; Express or Implied Actual Authority; Subject-Matter Jurisdiction; Statute of Limitations; RCFC 12(b)(1); ■ RCFC 12(d) Conversion of RCFC 12(b)(6) Motion to RCFC 56 Motion

OPINION AND ORDER

CAMPBELL-SMITH, Chief Judge

Plaintiff Jose Mendez (Mendez) was a confidential informant whose assistance and cooperation, over roughly nine years, contributed to the government’s successful criminal prosecution of numerous mafia principals and subsequent forfeiture of their…