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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Judge Rejects PPP False Claims Act Suit, Article II Challenge - Bloomberg Law News

Refrigeration services company The Articom Group LLC and others won dismissal of a False Claims Act suit alleging fraud under the Covid-19 pandemic Paycheck Protection Program, but they didn’t show that whistleblower suits violate Article II of the US Constitution.

A whistleblower, Relator LLC, failed to plead fraud with sufficient particularity, said Judge Rita F. Lin in a Monday opinion. And Relator didn’t show that Articom made statements to the US government with the intent to deceive, Lin said, dismissing the suit.

Lin also rejected Articom’s assertion that whistleblower suits under the FCA violate the appointments clause in Article ...

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