After years of unsuccessful tries and despite opposition from unexpected quarters, Minnesota became the 23rd U.S. state (along with the federal government and the District of Columbia) to enact a false claims law when the measure passed as part of the omnibus state government finance bill and Gov. Tim Pawlenty spared it his veto pen [...]
The Minnesota False Claims Act bill we’ve written about previously has made it into the omnibus state government finance bill that’s scheduled to be taken up on the House floor today.
The bill, which would create a class of civil penalties for making false claims to state or local government and allow whistleblowers to receive financial [...]
In last Friday’s subscriber-only PIM Weekly Report, we wrote about the travails Rep. Steve Simon (DFL-St. Louis Park) (pictured) has faced in trying to secure passage of a Minnesota False Claims Act, which would create a class of civil penalties for making false claims to state
or local government and allow whistleblowers to receive financial rewards [...]
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson should be happy that Mike Kaszuba’s Sunday Star Tribune story about her office came on the eve of the first week of serious budget movement at the Capitol. Yet even amid the suddenly furious pace of legislative goings-on–"Hell Week!" in the pronouncement of one House DFLer who scurried past me [...]
