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Article: Fed Jury Finds Defense Contractor IIF Data Solutions Innocent of Whistleblower Charges That It Defrauded USA.
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- Information Technology Newsweekly
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- November 10, 2009
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In the culmination of a three-year civil case brought under the False Claims Act, a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Alexandria, VA, yesterday unanimously found that IIF Data Solutions and Charles Patten, Sr., its founder and president, did not defraud the United States Government in contracts with the Army National Guard. The plaintiff sought $140 million in damages, which would have been trebled under the False Claims Act.
"This is the first time in my career both in the National Guard and as a private contractor I have ever been accused of any unethical conduct. As I have often said in the last three ...