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Breaking News: Virginia Office of the Attorney General to host Continuing Legal Education Seminar on the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act

By Zachary A. Kitts

Virginia Qui Tam Law.com is pleased to announce that the Virginia Office of the Attorney General will be sponsoring a Continuing Legal Education Seminar on the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act on October 3, 2008, from 2:00 to 5:00 PM.

The meeting is open to the entire Office of the Attorney General, as well as members of the private bar.   We also hope to attract Constitutional Officers such as Circuit Court Clerks, and others involved in the administration of Virginia Courts.   

The single most important aim, however, is to build the public-private partnership between Government attorneys and members of the private bar that is a crucial prerequisite to large scale enforcement of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act.
Senator Grassley (R-IA) himself described the need for such a partnership when he led the charge to update the Federal False Claims Act in 1986: 

        The law we vote on today is intended to encourage a working partnership between the Government and the qui tam plaintiff. The public will be well served by having more legal resources brought to bear against those who defraud the government... If the Government can pass a law that will increase the resources available to confront fraud against the Government without paying for it with taxpayers' money, we are all better off. This is precisely what [the False Claims Act] is intended to do: deputize ready and able people who have knowledge of fraud against the government to play an active and constructive role through their counsel to bring to justice those contractors who overcharge the government. 132 Cong. Rec. H9382-83 (October 7, 1986).

Full post as published by Virginia Qui Tam Law on July 19, 2008 (boomark / email).