United States v. Rippetoe

PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for defendant in an informer’s suit instituted under 31 U.S.C.A. §§ 231 and 232 to recover on account of alleged fraud in the presentation of a claim against the United States. Plaintiff alleged, not only that the claim was false, but also that there was corruption on the part of government officials in dealing' with it. The learned District Judge thought that, because plaintiff did not negative knowledge of the fraud on the part of government officials, but on the contrary charged their knowledge of and complicity in the fraud,…