A whistleblower’s False Claims Act suit accusing Reditus Laboratories LLC of government fraud connected to Covid-19 nasal swab tests is dismissed because another whistleblower filed a related suit 19 minutes earlier, a federal district court said Thursday.
Whistleblower Ferzad Abdi’s suit is precluded by the FCA’s first-to-file bar because the first suit was pending when Abdi filed the complaint, Chief Judge Sara Darrow of the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois said in a decision granting Reditus’ motion to dismiss.
Abdi is an employee of LigoLab, a software vendor that gave laboratory information and billing systems to ...
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