Pollock Cohen LLP: Red Ventures, LLC And MYMOVE, LLC Agree To Pay $2.75 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
PR Newswire
NEW YORK and CHARLOTTE, N.C. , May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Ventures, LLC and MYMOVE, LLC (together, "MYMOVE") have agreed to pay the United States $2.75 million to resolve a whistleblower's allegations that they violated the False Claims Act. Acting on the whistleblower's complaint, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Western District of North Carolina alleged that MYMOVE defrauded the U.S. Postal Service ("USPS") by underpaying on contracts connected to the USPS change-of-address process.
Well-known retailers paid MYMOVE to be included in advertisements and promotional mailers targeting people who were moving and who had notified the USPS of their pending move. In turn, MYMOVE was supposed to pay the USPS a portion of the advertising fees paid by the retailers.
The False Claims Act rewards whistleblowers for alerting the government to fraud being perpetrated against the United States . The claims here were brought to the government's attention under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by a former MYMOVE employee. Pollock Cohen LLP served as lead counsel for the whistleblower with Poyner Spruill LLP serving as local counsel.
The U.S. Department of Justice also partially intervened in the matter—a step that only occurs in about 1 in 5 qui tam cases.
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