Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Wartime Fraud Claims Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won’t review an appeals court’s interpretation of a wartime law that revived claims that a former Department of Defense contracting officer engaged in a kickback scheme in South Korea.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that because of a flawed interpretation of the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act, a district court dismissed as untimely seven counts in the 2017 indictment against Duane Nishiie.

The WSLA stops the clock on the statute of limitations for wartime fraud, property, and contract offenses until five years after hostilities cease.

The Ninth ...