Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Crennen v. Dell Marketing L.P.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided April 27, 2010No. Civil Action 06-10546-PBSPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
In March 2006, relator Christopher Crennen filed a qui tam complaint under seal charging thirty-two companies with violating the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733. Crennen alleged that various information technology vendors had misrepresented and certified falsely that their products complied with the Buy American Act (“BAA”) of 1933, 41 U.S.C. §§ 10a-10d, and Trade Agreements Act (“TAA”) of 1979, 19 U.S.C. §§ 2501-2581, in order to list those products for sale on a federal procurement website. This Court unsealed…
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