United States Ex Rel. Ziebell v. Fox Valley Workforce Development Board, Inc.

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

In 2003 LuAnn Ziebell began working at the Fox Valley Workforce Development Board, Inc., a state job-training agency serving central Wisconsin with funding from the federal government. She was fired in 2008. Almost two years later, she filed a qui tam action alleging that the Board violated the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq., by improperly contracting services through a subsidiary corporation. As best we can tell, her claim relies on a theory known as “false certification”; she alleges that the Board made false certifications of regulatory compliance as a…