Moog Must Face Chinese Employee’s False Claims Retaliation Suit

A former supply chain manager residing in China adequately alleged that Moog Inc. violated the False Claims Act by firing him in retaliation for calling attention to what he believed was an improper airplane parts manufacturing process, a New York federal court said Thursday.

Charles Shi sufficiently alleged that he lost his job for telling his supervisor and others at the company that Moog was paying a Chinese company for substandard supplies, and therefore Moog was allegedly providing U.S. defense contractor Boeing with substandard parts, Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New ...