Former employees of Microwave Techniques LLC—a government contractor that makes radio frequency equipment—failed to show that the company violated the False Claims Act by firing them in retaliation for raising concerns about alleged national security breaches.
Kathleen and Brent Hinson alleged that they reported what they believed to be the illegal practice of testing equipment containing national security secrets without either a required government security clearance or due care to safeguard to protect those secrets.
But they haven’t alleged that they investigated or reported fraud on the government or false billing, Magistrate Judge Karen Frink Wolf said for the US ...
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